Birthdays in Music Apr 19 Siegfried Ochs, German composer, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1929) Apr 20 Auguste Chapuis, French composer, born in Dampierre-sur-Salon, France (d. 1933) Apr 22 Ethel Smyth, English composer, born in Sidcup, Kent (d. 1944) Deaths in Music Apr 3 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer and royal chaplain master, dies at 79 Apr 7 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher and composer, dies at 76 Apr 16 Johann Baptist Cramer, German British pianist, composer and publisher, dies at 87 1857 Music History by Year 1859