Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 January ?

1663: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Les arts"

1668: Jean Gilles is born

1685: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Roland"

1688: Francesco Foggia dies

1705: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Almira oder Der in Kronen erlangte Glückswechsel / Almira, Queen of Castile"

1713: Arcangelo Corelli dies

1748: James Cervetto is born

1758: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "La Fausse esclave / The False Slave"

1787: Johann Ludwig Böhner is born

1788: Rudolf Erzherzog von Österreich is born

1789: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Axur, Re D'Ormus"

1812: Sigismund Thalberg is born

1812: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "L'inganno felice / The Fortunate Deception"

1822: Alfredo Carlo Piatti is born

1830: Hans von Bülow is born

1831: Franz Krommer dies

1859: Max Puchat is born

1864: Victor Dourlen dies

1878: Asbjørn Wieth Knudsen is born

1885: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Streichquintett / String Quintet"

1891: Fredrik Pacius dies

1892: Werner Wehrli is born

1895: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Sonate / Sonata"

1896: Jaromír Weinberger is born

1896: FP of Charles Tournemire's "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1905: Giacinto Scelsi is born

1910: FP of Franz Lehár's "Zigeunerliebe / Gipsy Love"

1912: Rudolf Escher is born

1921: FP of Leon Jessel's "Schwalbenhochzeit"

1924: Benjamin Lees is born

1924: Antal Ribáry is born

1924: Robert Starer is born

1926: Jani Christou is born

1926: FP of George Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me"

1927: FP of Othmar Schoeck's "Penthesilea"

1928: Roland Ploeger is born

1936: Zdeněk Mácal is born

1937: Robert Moran is born

1942: Catharinus Elling dies

1943: Ric Graebner is born

1945: Theodore Akimenko dies

1948: Kurt Schwitters dies

1948: Richard Tauber dies

1951: Paul Dresher is born

1953: Heinrich Kaspar Schmid dies

1953: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Cellosonate Nr. 3 / Cello Sonata No. 3"

1955: Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau is born

1957: David Lang is born

1965: Aloys Henri Gerard Fornerod dies

1970: Jani Christou dies

1972: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Simfoniya N° 15 [Симфония № 15] / Symphony No. 15"

1979: Teresa de Rogatis dies

1979: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Natáčí se! / Roll the Cameras!"

1980: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Podivuhodný let / The Amazing Flight"

1982: FP of Philip Martin's "On Wings of Ebony"

1987: Manuel Blancafort i de Rosselló dies

1990: Andrée Rochat-Aeschlimann dies

1994: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Verhalten, entgleiten, entfalten"

2003: Ron Goodwin dies

2010: Otmar Suitner dies

2011: Hans Ulrich Engelmann dies

2011: Klauspeter Seibel dies

2012: Stefano Scodanibbio dies

2012: Alexis Weissenberg dies