Classical Calendar: What happened on 3 January ?

1698: Pietro Metastasio is born

1738: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Faramondo"

1761: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "Armida"

1767: Luca Antonio Predieri dies

1769: Ernest Frauenberger is born

1776: FP of Ferdinando Bertoni's "Aristo e Temira"

1785: Baldassare Galuppi dies

1786: Friedrich Schneider is born

1799: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Falstaff ossia Le tre burle"

1814: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Die Nachtmütze des Propheten Elias"

1823: Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens is born

1823: Francesco Masciangelo is born

1836: Friedrich Witt dies

1843: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Don Pasquale"

1853: Karl Gottlieb Hering dies

1858: Richard Franck is born

1868: Moritz Hauptmann dies

1873: John Lodge Ellerton dies

1877: FP of Johann (Sohn) Strauss' "Prinz Methusalem / Prince Methusalem"

1890: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Spyashchaya krasavitsa [Спящая красавица] / Sleeping Beauty"

1895: Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky is born

1914: Jean Louel is born

1916: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Skifskaya syuita [Скифская сюита] / Scythian Suite"

1919: Miloš Konvalinka is born

1919: Antonio Jiménez Manjón dies

1922: Jacques Wildberger is born

1929: Ernst Mahle is born

1936: Herbert Blendinger is born

1942: Julius Conus dies

1943: Heinz Karl Gruber is born

1944: Guido López-Gavilán is born

1944: Sir David Atherton is born

1950: Christoph Delz is born

1950: Olivier Greif is born

1956: Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov dies

1958: FP of Richard Yardumian's "Passacaglia, Recitatives and Fugue"

1966: Geoffrey Waddington dies

1986: Hans Fryba dies

1990: Ernst Widmer dies

2002: Juan García Esquivel dies

2009: Charles Camilleri dies

2018: James Niblock dies

2021: Georg Schmöhe dies