Munich

Country

West Germany

Coordinates

48.1375, 11.5750

History

• Munich (–1623), Duchy of Bavaria
• Munich (1623–1805), Electorate of Bavaria
• Munich (1805–1871), Kingdom of Bavaria
• Munich (1871–1918), German Empire
• Munich (1918–1933), Weimar Republic
• Munich (1933–1945), Nazi Germany
• Munich (1945–1949), allied-occupied Germany
• Munich (1949–1990), West Germany
• Munich (1990–), Germany

Composers

• Conrad Paumann (1410–1473), died in Munich
• Ludwig Senfl (1486–1543), died in Munich
• Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631), died in Munich
• Giovanni Martino Cesare (1590–1667), died in Munich
• Ercole Bernabei (1622–1687), died in Munich
• Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693), died in Munich
• Pietro Torri (1650–1737), died in Munich
• Franz Xaver Murschhauser (1663–1738), died in Munich
• Johann Christoph Pez (1664–1716), was born in Munich
• Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742), died in Munich
• Giovanni Porta (1675–1755), died in Munich
• Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676–1754), died in Munich
• Andrea Bernasconi (1706–1784), died in Munich
• Peter Winter (1754–1825), died in Munich
• Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800), died in Munich
• Sophie Lebrun (1781–1863), died in Munich
• Franz Lachner (1803–1890), died in Munich
• Josephine Lang (1815–1880), was born in Munich
• Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (1830–1913), died in Munich
• Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901), died in Munich
• Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840–1913), died in Munich
• Rudolf Tillmetz (1847–1915), was born and died in Munich
• Felix Mottl (1856–1911), died in Munich
• Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907), died in Munich
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949), was born in Munich
• Siegmund von Hausegger (1872–1948), died in Munich
• Carl Ehrenberg (1878–1962), died in Munich
• Joseph Haas (1879–1960), died in Munich
• Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), died in Munich
• Franz Mittler (1893–1970), died in Munich
• Carl Orff (1895–1982), was born and died in Munich
• Enrico Mainardi (1897–1976), died in Munich
• Karl Marx (1897–1985), was born in Munich
• Paul Ben-Haim (1897–1984), was born in Munich
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963), was born and died in Munich
• Franz Biebl (1906–2001), died in Munich
• Harald Genzmer (1909–2007), died in Munich
• Willy Berking (1910–1979), died in Munich
• Jan Koetsier (1911–2006), died in Munich
• Hidayat Inayat Khan (1917–2016), died in Munich
• Laci Boldemann (1921–1969), died in Munich
• Kurt-Heinz Stolze (1926–1970), died in Munich
• Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), died in Munich
• Wilhelm Killmayer (1927–2017), was born in Munich
• Ernest Sauter (1928–2013), was born and died in Munich
• Hans Stadlmair (1929–2019), died in Munich
• Josef Anton Riedl (1929–2016), was born in Munich
• Rodion Shchedrin (1932–2025), died in Munich
• Gloria Coates (1938–2023), died in Munich
• Dieter Acker (1940–2006), died in Munich
• Michael Vetter (1943–2013), died in Munich
• Peter Michael Hamel (1947–), was born in Munich
• Lubomyr Melnyk (1948–), was born in Munich
• Hans-Jürgen von Bose (1953–), was born in Munich
• Jörg Widmann (1973–), was born in Munich
• Nélida Béjar (1979–), was born in Munich