Classical Calendar: What happened on 24 January ?

1712: Frederick II is born

1742: Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter dies

1758: FP of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's "O Himmel, schone"

1765: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Il Parnaso confuso"

1776: E. T. A. Hoffmann is born

1788: FP of Georg Joseph Vogler's "Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe / Gustaf Adolf and Ebba Brahe"

1798: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Alexis"

1819: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "In die solemnitatis"

1824: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Der Taucher"

1829: William Mason is born

1835: FP of Vincenzo Bellini's "I puritani"

1851: Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini dies

1883: Friedrich von Flotow dies

1901: Eugène Sauzay dies

1901: FP of Leo Blech's "Trost in der Natur"

1902: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Der faule Hans"

1906: FP of Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow's "Francesca da Rimini [Франческа да Римини]"

1914: FP of Pierre Bretagne's "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1915: Vítězslava Kaprálová is born

1918: Gottfried von Einem is born

1919: Leon Kirchner is born

1923: Simeon ten Holt is born

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "That American Boy Of Mine"

1930: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Blues"

1930: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Tance / The Dance"

1931: Ib Nørholm is born

1933: Don Jaffé is born

1937: FP of Nicolae Bretan's "Horia"

1937: FP of Nicola Antonio Porpora's "Cellokonzert / Cello Concerto"

1994: FP of Samuel Adler's "Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light"

1997: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Seltsame Tänze für Klarinette"

1999: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Aus den Weihnachtsbriefen an Frieda Mermet"

2001: Leif Thybo dies

2003: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Lustige Fughettas"

2003: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Trauer"

2004: Rudolph Bubalo dies

2007: Günther Becker dies

2018: Renaud Gagneux dies

2020: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Was ist das - Leben?"