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1712: Jacopo Puccini is born

1726: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "Cunegonda"

1748: Emanuel Aloys Förster is born

1754: FP of Giovanni Battista Sammartini's "Lucio in Vero"

1790: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Così fan tutte"

1795: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach dies

1796: FP of Johann Simon Mayr's "La Lodoiska"

1798: Christian Gottlob Neefe dies

1798: FP of Vicente Martín y Soler's "La festa del villaggio"

1806: Christian Wilhelm Westerhoff dies

1826: Fanny Hünerwadel is born

1832: João de Deus Castro Lobo dies

1835: Wassili Wassiljewitsch Besekirski is born

1847: FP of Franz Adolf Berwald's "Ein ländliches Verlobungsfest in Schweden"

1850: FP of Robert Schumann's "Adagio und Allegro"

1858: FP of Errico Petrella's "Jone, o L'ultimo giorno di Pompei "

1870: Cesare Pugni dies

1877: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Docteur Ox"

1884: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Gasparone"

1884: FP of Ethel Smyth's "String Quintet E-Dur"

1890: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Crisantemi"

1893: Richard Maux is born

1893: FP of Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow's "Serenade g-Moll"

1907: FP of Toivo Kuula's "Eteläpohjalainen Sarja No.1 / South Ostrobothnian Suite No. 1"

1910: Theodor Holterdorf is born

1910: Marijan Lipovšek is born

1911: Norbert Schultze is born

1911: FP of Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier"

1914: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Der sterbende Schwan"

1919: FP of Louis Vierne's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1921: Johannes Driessler is born

1921: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Dandelion"

1922: Luigi Denza dies

1935: FP of Paul Abraham's "Viki"

1940: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Dies natalis"

1948: Ignaz Friedmann dies

1951: Jerry Gerber is born

1951: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Violin Concerto No. 2"

1956: Steve Dobrogosz is born

1972: Vladimir Michailovich Jurovski dies

1980: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Elegy of the Fowers"

1981: Gustavo Dudamel is born

1986: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Solo I"

1993: Kenneth Gaburo dies

1994: Lejaren Arthur Hiller dies

1997: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Titbits"

1998: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Sieben Portraits"

1998: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Himmelsreichlieder"

1998: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "La solitude du Pierrot"

2000: Simeon Pironkoff dies

2000: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "Clinamen / Nodus"

2003: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Messe pour orgue"

2006: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Nen V"

2008: FP of Michael Denhoff's "Licht(e)stücke"

2011: FP of Fabian Müller's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

2013: Hans Ulrich Lehmann dies

2013: Edwin London dies

2013: FP of Barbara Heller's "Herbstmusik"

2015: John Schlenck dies