Classical Calendar: What happened on 16 January ?

1651: Martin Peerson dies

1656: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Psyché, ou La puissance de l'amour "

1672: Francesco Mancini is born

1684: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Amadis"

1726: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Te Deum"

1728: Niccolò Piccinni is born

1768: Carl Andreas Göpfert is born

1800: FP of Luigi Cherubini's "Les deux journées ou le Porteur d'eau"

1804: Karl August Krebs is born

1828: FP of Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer's "Aloise"

1833: Anna-Maria Streicher dies

1843: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Le Part du diable"

1853: Matteo Carcassi dies

1861: Georg Heinrich Lux dies

1862: Oskar Zapff is born

1869: FP of Léo Delibes' "L'Ecossais de Chatou"

1872: Henri Büsser is born

1876: FP of Franz von Holstein's "Die Hochländer"

1880: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Streichquartett Nr. 3 / String Quartet No. 3"

1886: Amilcare Ponchielli dies

1891: Léo Delibes dies

1892: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Das Sonntagskind"

1896: FP of Emile Bernard's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1905: Ernesto Halffter is born

1907: Martin Scherber is born

1927: Radu Paladi is born

1927: FP of Albert Fébvre-Longeray's "Sonate für Violoncello und Basso continuo"

1928: Ezra Sims is born

1928: FP of Richard Strauss' "Panathenäenzug"

1932: Anna Lambrechts-Vos dies

1934: Richard Wernick is born

1935: Richard Wetz dies

1935: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Nerone"

1936: Peter Bares is born

1942: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Diversions"

1943: Gavin Bryars is born

1943: Brian Ferneyhough is born

1952: Pär Lindgren is born

1957: Arturo Toscanini dies

1957: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Medusa"

1961: János Viski dies

1962: Ludmila Yurina is born

1962: Ludmila Yurina is born

1966: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Vier Stücke / Four Pieces"

1969: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky dies

1974: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Capriccio für Cembalo"

1974: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Capriccio für Cembalo"

1977: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Wiener Symphonie"

1978: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Fagottquintett"

1978: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Jugendzeit"

1979: Fred Elizalde dies

1986: Stjepan Šulek dies

1989: Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer dies

1997: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "L.A. Variations"

2003: Henryk Czyż dies

2006: Sylvia Glickman dies

2007: Erik Norby dies

2012: Gustav Leonhardt dies

2024: Peter Schickele dies