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Honorary members of the Royal Philharmonic Society
- Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, on the 17th of June 1882. His father worked as a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint…
- Johannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was born on the 7th of May 1833 in a poor apartment in the quarter of Hamburg. His father Johann Jakob worked as a double bass player and…
- Maurice RavelJoseph Maurice Ravel entered the world on the 7th of March 1875 in Ciboure, a small town near Biarritz. His father Pierre-Joseph was an engineer and inventor…
- Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOn the 7th of May 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in the small town of Votkinsk within the Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Aaron CoplandAaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 14th of November 1900. He grew up above his family's store at 628 Washington Avenue.
- Antonín DvořákAntonín Leopold Dvořák entered the world on the 8th of September 1841 in Nelahozeves, a small village near Prague. His father František worked as an…
- Hector BerliozOn the 11th of December 1803, Louis-Hector Berlioz was born in the commune of La Côte-Saint-André. His father, a physician named Louis Berlioz, expected his…
- Richard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was born on the 11th of June 1864 in Munich. His father Franz worked as a principal horn player at the Court Opera and taught at the…
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff entered the world on the 28th of March 1873 in a family estate located near Staraya Russa.
- Alexander GlazunovSaint Petersburg, 1879. A fourteen-year-old high school student named Alexander Glazunov sat before Mily Balakirev with an orchestral score in hand.
- Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on the 16th of November 1895. He grew up as the eldest child of Robert Hindemith and his wife Marie…
- Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel arrived in the world on the 14th of November 1778 within Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary. His father Johannes Hummel served as a…