Classical Calendar: What happened on 20 January ?

1586: Johann Hermann Schein is born

1682: Francesco Bartolomeo Conti is born

1695: FP of Sebastiano Moratelli's "Il fabbro pittore"

1703: Josephus-Hector Fiocco is born

1725: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Rodelinde, Regina de Langobardi"

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen"

1767: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "Il Bellerofonte"

1774: Florian Leopold Gassmann dies

1775: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "Il Demofoonte"

1783: Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer is born

1798: Johann Christian Cannabich dies

1804: Tommaso Bianchi is born

1810: Ferdinand David is born

1816: FP of Victor Dourlen's "Le Frère Philippe"

1830: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Baron Luft"

1838: Pierre Louis Hus-Desforges dies

1841: FP of Richard Wagner's "Descendons gaiment la courtille"

1844: Johan Peter Selmer is born

1851: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Die Opernprobe"

1855: Ernest Chausson is born

1859: Bettine von Arnim dies

1868: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Die Frau Meisterin"

1870: Guillaume Lekeu is born

1873: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Abenteuer in Wien"

1877: Aymé Kunc is born

1883: FP of Blas Maria Colomer's "Sonate dramatique pour piano et violoncelle"

1888: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Die drei Pintos"

1890: Franz Lachner dies

1892: FP of Alfredo Catalani's "La Wally"

1894: Walter Piston is born

1903: FP of Louis Victor Saar's "Klavierquartett / Piano Quartet"

1903: FP of Antonio Smareglia's "Oceana"

1904: FP of Franz Lehár's "Der Göttergatte"

1908: FP of Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi's "Ave Maria gratia plena"

1919: Štĕpán Lucký is born

1926: David Tudor is born

1932: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Narcissus and Echo"

1932: FP of Paul Pierné's "2e Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano"

1932: FP of Heinrich Strecker's "Mädel aus Wien"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Two Waltzes In C"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Pardon My English"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Isn't It A Pity?"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "I've Got To Be There"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Lorelei"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Luckiest Man In The World"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "My Cousin In Milwaukee"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "So What?"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Where You Go, I Go"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Dancing In The Streets"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Hail The Happy Couple"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "He's Not Himself"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "In Three-Quarter Time"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "No Tickee, No Washee"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Pardon My English"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "The Dresden Northwest Mounted"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Tonight"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "What Sort Of Wedding Is This?"

1933: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Violinsonate Nr. 2 / Violin Sonata No. 2"

1934: FP of Franz Lehár's "Giuditta"

1935: Sándor Balassa is born

1937: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Der Stern des Kaisers"

1938: Carl Erik Emanuel Åkerberg dies

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Wie damals"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Erwartung"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Die Blume"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Schottisches Lied"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Liebe"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Schlaflied"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Das Hirschlein"

1940: FP of Maria Bach's "Am Klavier"

1940: FP of Werner Egk's "Joan von Zarissa"

1951: Iván Fischer is born

1961: Alois Bröder is born

1973: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Concerto "Wolfgang Amadeus""

1981: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Elegie für Flöte und Streichorchester"

1988: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Glück, Tod und Traum"

1989: Halsey Stevens dies

1996: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Der Tod und das Mädchen"

2007: Vitomir Trifunović dies

2008: Tālivaldis Ķeniņš dies

2010: Reinhold Finkbeiner dies

2013: Maurice Ingvar Karkoff dies

2014: Claudio Abbado dies

2016: Eva Schorr dies