Musical Birthdays, April 18-25

• April 18 - Franz von Suppé (1819), Austrian composer and conductor; Leopold Stokowski (1882), British-born American conductor; Catherine Malfitano (1948), American soprano.
• April 19 - Augustus D. Juilliard (1836), American music patron, founder of the Juilliard School of Music; Germaine Tailleferre (1892), French composer; Murray Perahia (1947), American pianist and conductor.
  
• April 20 - Nicolai Miaskovsky (1881), Russian composer; John Eliot Gardiner (1943), British conductor; Perter Frampton (1950), British rock singer and guitarist.
  
• April 21 - Estelle Liebling (1880), American soprano; Randall Thompson (1899), American composer; Bruno Maderna (1920), Italian-born German conductor and composer.
  
• April 22 - Dame Ethel Smyth (1858), British composer; Yehudi Menuhin (1916), American violinist; Charles Mingus (1922), American jazz double-bass player, pianist, composer and bandleader.
• April 23 - Albert Coates (1882), British conductor and composer; Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Russian composer and pianist; Roy Orbison (1926), American rock-and-roll singer, songwriter and guitarist.
  
• April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini (1706), Italian music scholar and composer; Violet Archer (1913), Canadian pianist and composer; Barbara Streisand (1942), American actress and singer of popular music.
  
• April 25 - Italo Tajo (1915), Italian bass; Ella Fitzgerald (1918), American singer of jazz and popular music; Albert King (1923), American blues singer and guitarist.