Respighi (and it isn't an Italian pasta)

This is a guy and is a composer. Was... actually died about 70some years ago.  He wrote what are called "tone poems"... that is music that depicts a scene or event or words, legend, etc. in a purely musical way.  Think of a poem and it is words. Think of a musical tone poem and it is about the same thing but only using music.  It is more complicated than that but that's the essence.

Respighi used birds here and there. One of his more approachable works is "the Birds"...here are a couple nice movements and you can hear and see them (birds)  pretty easily in your mind's eye.  That coucou you hear at about 4 minutes in...same bird as in the clock and in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and Delius's "Coucou in Spring"...the bird gets around.  Anyway, Respighi's music is infinitely listenable and seemingly always evocative. Also it is darn beautiful stuff and you should know who he is.  It may not be "date magnet" music anymore but it literally glows with class.