Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:


Deryk Barker:
>
>>Of course the fact that like Gerhard (and Shostakovich and Rameau and
>>Glenn Gould) I was born on September 25 has nothing to do with it.
>
>To which you can add Pichl, Gershwin and J Strauss I.  The only

I long thought Gershwin, but Baker's says he's September 26 - as IIRC was
Alfred Cortot.  Jacques Thibaud (of the Cortot, Thibaud, Casals trio) was
24th.  Or the other way round.

>composer I

>know of born on my birthday was Draeseke, like Deryk another Libran, FWIW.

I'm still trying to absorb his massive Christus, which I acquired 2nd-hand
about a year ago.

Deryk Barker
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