Classical Calendar: What happened on 4 January ?

1609: Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi dies

1710: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is born

1717: Antonio Mazzoni is born

1720: Johann Friedrich Agricola is born

1740: FP of John Christopher Smith's "Rosalinda"

1759: Maria Rosa Coccia is born

1786: FP of Vicente Martín y Soler's "Il Burbero di buon cuore"

1798: Giuseppe Giordani dies

1815: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Ah, se Edmondo fosse l'uccisor!"

1818: Carl Helsted is born

1829: FP of Carl Gottlieb Reißiger's "Libella"

1839: FP of Richard Wagner's "Gesang am Grabe"

1874: Josef Suk is born

1881: Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets is born

1881: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Akademische Festouvertüre"

1887: Sebastian Lee dies

1890: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Der arme Jonathan"

1892: FP of Louis (Luigi) Abbiate's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1898: Roger Vuataz is born

1901: Edmond Dédé dies

1923: Flavio Testi is born

1924: Alfred Grünfeld dies

1927: FP of Charles Koechlin's "Nouvelle Sonatine N° 2"

1933: FP of Walter Kollo's "Die Männer sind mal so"

1935: FP of Walter Kollo's "Heirat nicht ausgeschlossen"

1942: Leon Jessel dies

1945: FP of Samuel Barber's "Excursions"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "For You, For Me, For Everyone"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Changing My Tune"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "One, Two, Three"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "The Back Bay Polka"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Demon Rum"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Stand Up And Fight"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Sweet Packard"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Tour Of The Town"

1947: FP of George Gershwin's "Waltzing Is Better Than Sitting Down"

1952: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Serenade F-Dur"

1955: François Rasse dies

1957: Zurab Nadarejshvili is born

1968: FP of Nicolas Nabokov's "Symphony No. 3"

1974: Karel Janeček dies

1978: Albert Laurent dies

1991: FP of Barbara Heller's "Lalai für Violoncello und Klavier"

1991: FP of Sándor Veress' "Musica Ungaresca"

2004: FP of Barbara Heller's "Hommage an Fanny Mendelssohn"

2016: Klaus Arp dies

2017: Georges Prêtre dies