Classical Calendar: What happened on 25 January ?

1694: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Xerse"

1759: Robert Burns is born

1776: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "La Merope"

1803: FP of Friedrich Witt's "Sinfonie à grand orchestre N° 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1817: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo / Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant"

1823: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Leicester"

1829: William Shield dies

1830: Franz Weiß dies

1849: Elias Parish-Alvars dies

1861: FP of Léo Delibes' "Les Musiciens d'orchestre"

1861: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Musiciens de l'orchestre"

1863: Alexander Friedrich von Hessen is born

1868: Juventino Rosas is born

1879: FP of Alexis de Castillon's "Deuxième trio pour piano, violon et violoncelle / Piano Trio No. 2"

1886: Wilhelm Furtwängler is born

1889: FP of Émile Ratez' "Sonate pour piano et violoncelle / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1904: Géza Frid is born

1908: Anton Stingl is born

1908: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Z pohádky do pohádky / From Fairytale to Fairytale"

1909: FP of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"

1913: Witold Lutosławski is born

1915: FP of Umberto Giordano's "Madame Sans-Gêne"

1924: FP of Kurt Weill's "Frauentanz"

1926: Hermann Ritter dies

1936: Hermann Bischoff dies

1937: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Kleines Duo"

1939: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Dr. Johannes Faust"

1941: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Buntes Allerlei"

1945: Russel Peck is born

1953: Walter Abt is born

1953: FP of Gabriel-Pierre Berlioz' "Concerto pour timbales et orchestre"

1953: FP of Boris Blacher's "Epitaph"

1957: FP of William Walton's "Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra"

1960: Rutland Boughton dies

1962: FP of Sándor Veress' "Konzert für Streichquartett und Orchester"

1967: FP of Eduard Erdmann's "Streichquartett / String Quartet"

1970: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Introitus und Hymnus"

1981: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Große Messe"

1997: FP of Günter Bialas' "Satz für Bläserquintett"

1998: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1999: Robert Shaw dies

2001: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Still Life with Prayer and Poem"

2012: Paavo Berglund dies

2012: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Drei Eckels-Lieder"

2012: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Drei Eckels-Lieder"