Birthdays in Music Oct 1 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, Ukrainian composer, born in Sin′yava, Galicia (d. 1908) Oct 4 Stephen Albert Emery, American composer and pianist, born in Paris, Maine (d. 1891) Oct 11 Friedrich Hegar, Swiss composer, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1927) 1840 Music History by Year 1842