Classical musicians born in the YEAR OF THE HORSE!

[Wallingford]

2014: THE YEAR OF THE WOOD HORSE


On January 31, we will be entering the Lunar New Year, and in China the Year of
the Horse will be celebrated.

As a refresher to how the various "animal years" were initiated: the legend of
the god Buddha relates that, when he was to leave the earth, he invited all the
animals for a festivity. But only 12 animals showed up: the rat came initially,
followed by the ox, then the tiger, then the rabbit....so forth on down to the
dog and the pig, resulting in Buddha naming a year after each animal.


According to the Chinese astrologers (a much more reputable source, IMO, than
conventional Greek astrology), people born in the Horse year are talented, charming, effervescent, industrious, and logical. But to these pluses must be added the minuses: Horses are also self-serving, flighty, unfaithful, conniving, and moody.

People born in the Year Of The Horse are most compatible with those from the
Dog, Tiger, and Goat years, and should
avoid those born in the Rat, Rooster, Rabbit, and Ox years.


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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE HORSE

Color Code:
Red = Metal Horse
Blue = Water Horse
Brown = Wood Horse
Orange = Fire Horse
Green = Earth Horse


1390
John Dunstable
1486
Ludwig Senfl
1510
Andrea Gabrielli
1654
Guiseppe Steffani
1678
Antonio Vivaldi
1714
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
Christoph Willlibald Gluck
Georg Christoph Wagenseil (b 1/29/1715)
1726
Johann Ernst Hartmann
Francois-Andre Philidor
1750
Antonio Salieri
1774
Gasparo Spontini
1786
Carl Maria von Weber
Friedrich Kuhlau
1810
Frederic Chopin
Robert Schumann
Otto Nicolai
Ole Bull
Hans Christian Lumbye
Nikolai Makarov
1822
Cesar Franck
Edouard Lalo (b. 1/27/1823)
Joachim Raff
1834
Charles Lamoureux
Cesar Cui (b. 1/18/1835)
Amilcare Ponchielli
Peter Benoit
1846
Ricardo Drigo
Sophie Menter
Silas Pratt
1858
Giacomo Puccini
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Victor Herbert (b. 2/1/1859)
Eugene Ysaye
Dame Ethel Smyth
Jeno Hubay
Tobias Mathtay
Frank van der Stucken
Marie van Zandt
Leon Dubois (b/ 1/9/1859)
1870
Franz Lehar
Leopold Godowsky
Florent Schmitt
Louis Vierne
Oscar Straus
Alfred Hill
Fiorello Giraud
1882
Igor Stravinsky
Leopold Stokowski
Artur Schnabel
Percy Grainger
Zoltan Kodaly
Joaquin Turina
Geraldine Farrar
Karol Szymanowski
Bronislaw Huberman
Hermann Abendroth (b. 1/19/1883)
Ignaz Friedman
Elly Ney
Albert Coates
Richard Hageman
R. Nathaniel Dett
Manuel Ponce
Joseph Marx
Gian Francesco Malipiero
1894
Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Loesser
Karl Bohm
Clara Haskil (b. 1/7/1895)
Robert Russell Bennett
Dimitri Tiomkin
Eugene Zador
Willem Pijper
Peter Warlock
Nat Shilkret (b. 1/1/1895)
Paul Dessau
Ernest Moeran
Albert Stoessel
Erwin Schulhof
Marie Goossens
1906
Antal Dorati
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pierre Fournier
E. Power Biggs
Oscar Levant
Paul Creston
Reginald Owen
Arthur Balsam
Askel Schiotz
Franz Waxman
Vaclav Smetacek
George Weldon
Massimo Freccia
Benjamin Frankel
Werner Egk
Janos Ferencsik (b. 1/18/1907)
Fernando Lopez-Graca
Elizabeth Lutyens
1918
Leonard Bernstein
Ruggiero Ricci
Henryk Szeryng
Eugene List
Astrid Varnay
George Rochberg
Sixten Ehrling
Leonard Rose
John Frandsen
Leon Kirchner (b. 1/24/1919)
Stig Westerberg
Zara Nelsova
Mado Robin
Felicja Blumental
Leopold Simoneau
David Schneider
Rene Kyriakou
Celedonio Romero
1930
Lorin Maazel
Thomas Schippers
Fritz Wunderlich
Lazar Berman
Igor Kipnis
Friedrich Gulda
Marni Nixon
Heather Harper
Maureen Forrester
Peter Katin
Russell Sherman
Toru Takemitsu
David Amram
Kazimierz Kord
James Lockhart
David Bar-Illan
Ulf Soderblom
John Reardon
Ib Norholm (b/ 1/24/1931)
1942
Daniel Barenboim
Mariss Jansons (b. 1/14/1943)
Samuel Ramey
Sheila Armstrong
Eduardo Mata
Richard Stoltzman
Jeffrey Siegel
Hans Vonk
Matthias Bamert
Christopher Seaman
Michael Devlin
Jacques Delacote
Sven-David Sandstrom
1954
Sir Simon Rattle (b. 1/19/1955)
JoAnn Falletta
Tedd Joselson
Dmitry Sitkovetzky
Eliot Fisk
Michael Daugherty
Gary Kulesha
1966
Brian Asawa
David Daniels
Veronique Gens
James Gilchrist
1978
Andris Nelsons
Vanessa Mae
Ryan Brown
Michio O'Hara
1990
Nigel Armstrong
Jennifer Lin

[Mookalafalas]

I find this interesting, as I am a horse

[Wallingford]

I find this interesting, as I am a horse

Actually, so are quite a few of the members of CMG, including the heads of this site!

[Ken]

Schumann's a horse, of course, of course!

[Istvan]

Also born in 1942: Maurizio Pollini. (Though this Chinese stuff means nothing at all to me, any more than horoscopes or zodiac signs do).

[Wallingford]

Also born in 1942: Maurizio Pollini. (Though this Chinese stuff means nothing at all to me, any more than horoscopes or zodiac signs do).

Actually, being born on January 5, Pollini belongs to the previous, Snake year.

[Lance]

I discovered I'm a WATER HORSE, just like Daniel Barenboim and the others from 1942. Of course, I don't RANK with any of them artistically.