THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

— Scott Adams

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch composer. Chacone Suite X

1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist (often called the father of modern geology).

1738 Johann Christoph Oley, German composer. “Herr Gott, Dich alle loben wir.”

1773 Michael Gottard Fischer, German composer and organist. Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, and “Larghetto”

1780 William Hone, English author and bookseller.

1819 Thomas Ball, American sculptor and painter.

1821 Edward L. Youmans, American scientific writer (founder of Popular Science).

1828 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, Spanish composer. La moza del temple

1829 — Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, French composer and organist. Communio sur Bellini

1841 — Eduardo Caudella, Romanian composer. Concert pentru vioara si orchestra nr. 1 op.61 (20:04), and “Ochii albaștri-s drăgălași“

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