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Jean-Féry Rebel (18 April 1666 – 2 January 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.

Joseph Beer (18 May 1744, Grünwald, Bohemia – 28 October 1812, Berlin) was one of the first internationally famous clarinet virtuosos, with connections to many major composers of the era.Beer served as trumpeter first in the Austrian and then in the French army during the Seven Years' War. In 1771 he went to Paris, and there took up the clarinet, on which he rapidly became the first major performer of his time. In 1782 he left Paris, and traveled through Holland, Italy, Russia, and Hungary. As a performer Beer effected a complete revolution in the clarinet, which he greatly improved by the addition of a fifth key. Until aged nearly fifty he had heard only French players, but having heard in Brussels a German performer, Schwartz, he discovered the instrument's tonal capabilities, and finally became as celebrated for the softness and purity of his tone, for the delicacy of his nuances, and especially his decrescendo, as he was for his execution. His compositions comprise three concertos for two clarinets, variations, and duets.

Ludwig Schuberth (né Carl Gottfried Schuberth; 18 April 1806 – May 1850) was a German composer.

Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas. Some of them remain in the repertory, particularly in German-speaking countries, and he composed a substantial quantity of church music, but he is now chiefly known for his overtures, which remain popular in the concert hall and on record. Among the best-known are Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry, Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna and Pique Dame.

Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer.

Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. Stokowski conducted the music for and appeared in several Hollywood films, most notably Disney's Fantasia, and was a lifelong champion of contemporary composers, giving many premieres of new music during his 60-year conducting career. Stokowski, who made his official conducting debut in 1909, appeared in public for the last time in 1975 but continued making recordings until June 1977, a few months before his death at the age of 95.

Jan Klusák (born 18 April 1934 in Prague as Jan Porges) is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music.

Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist.

Marcela Rodríguez (born 18 April 1951) is a Mexican composer.

Robert M. Greenberg (born April 18, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Great Courses.

Claudio Maldonado, also known as Xunorus (born in 1980) is an Argentine composer, guitarist and arranger, referent musician from the new generation of classical music contemporary composers from Patagonia . He is the author of Suite Patagonica, AH!, Colección ( based on Georg 's paintings), Cantata Instrumental and Tierra del Viento ( based on Eliseo Miciú 's homonymous book) among others. Since 2003, he has been the artistic director of Energia Sonora. Xunorus has been distinguished among the Top Ten World Composer Performers (Transatlantic Arts Consortium USA-Europe), National Fund for the Arts (FNArtes 2017), Young Creators Award (Department of Culture of the Argentine Nation), La Falda International Guitar Festival 2013, Cotija de la Paz Culture department (2005 Michoacán -Mexico), among others. He has appeared in both facets as a composer and performer in prestigious venues such as: REDCAT Walt Disney Concert Hall 2009 (LA-USA), Lake Theater (Frutillar-Chile 2012), Bariloche Musical Camping (Rio Negro), Colorado Springs Guitar Society (USA), International Guitar Academy Berlin 8th Festival (Germany), International Multimedia Festival (UNLa), 404 International Festival of Electronic Art (Ros. -Arg.), XVIII Electroacustic National Music Meeting (FARME), Vsiones Sonoras 2005 (Mexico City), Manzana de las Luces (Bs As-Arg.), Principe de Asturias Theater (Rosario-Arg.), Fortabat Museum and Llao Llao Resorts performing among America and Europe. In 2009 he premiered the collaborative opera AH!. among with CofT Ensemble, conducted by David Rosenboom with staging by director Travis Preston, scenic design by Christopher Barreca, video design by Jeremiah Thies, choreography by Mira Kingsley, lighting design By Laura Mroczkowdki, and a host of other contributing artists. These performances sold-out audiences at REDCAT in Los Angeles, USA.

Dennis Tobenski (born April 18, 1982 in Kankakee, Illinois) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and art song.