Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 January ?
1543: Alfonso Ferrabosco (the elder) is born
1668: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Le carnaval"
1674: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide"
1687: FP of Agostino Steffani's "Alarico il Baltha cioè L'audace re de' gothi / Alarico, King of the Visigoths"
1699: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "La fede pubblica"
1722: Antonio Rodrígez de Hita is born
1726: Bartolomeo Laurenti dies
1728: FP of Giacomo Facco's "Amor aumenta el valor"
1744: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "La Sofonisba"
1747: Antonio de Literes dies
1762: Camillo Barni is born
1778: Franz Weiß is born
1835: César Cui is born
1840: Ernst Rudorff is born
1841: Emanuel Chabrier is born
1850: Gaston Sarreau is born
1856: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Falstaff"
1862: FP of Cesare Pugni's "Dochy faraona [Дочь фараона] / The Pharaoh's Daughter"
1866: Charles Manry dies
1872: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Fantasio"
1889: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ständchen"
1895: Peter Herz is born
1902: Filippo Marchetti dies
1903: Berthold Goldschmidt is born
1908: FP of Gräfin Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach's "Die schöne Melusine"
1910: Henri Carol is born
1912: FP of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen's "Oberst Chabert"
1916: Alban Förster dies
1918: Richard LaSalle is born
1919: Juan Orrego-Salas is born
1921: Antony Roper is born
1921: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Ragword"
1922: Antonio Bibalo is born
1931: FP of Wilhelm Kempff's "König Midas"
1943: Martin Sigrist is born
1943: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Klaviersonate Nr. 7 / Piano Sonata No. 7"
1946: Feliks Nowowiejski dies
1946: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Etudes and Polkas"
1948: Jani Golob is born
1972: Emilia Gubitosi dies
1974: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Wedding Suite"
1975: FP of Giselher Klebe's "Ein wahrer Held"
1976: Friedrich Hollaender dies
1978: Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky dies
1983: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Orgelsonate"
1983: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "She tells her love while half asleep"
1983: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Konzert für Trompete, Pauken und Orchester"
1987: George Thomas Thalben-Ball dies
1989: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Präludium und Variationen über 'Aus tiefer Not'"
2000: Eduard Pütz dies
2016: Else Marie Pade dies
2019: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Wortlos singend... / Wordless singing..."
2023: Clytus Gottwald dies
2024: Ivan Moody dies