Classical Calendar: What happened on 27 January ?

1629: Hieronymus Praetorius dies

1710: FP of Domenico Scarlatti's "La Silvia"

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Alles nur nach Gottes Willen"

1728: François Duval dies

1738: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "Rosmira fidele"

1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born

1778: FP of Niccolò Piccinni's "Roland"

1784: Martin Joseph Mengal is born

1785: FP of Tommaso Giordani's "The Island of Saints, or The Institution of the Shamrock"

1795: FP of Vicente Martín y Soler's "La scuola dei maritati"

1802: Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg dies

1806: Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola is born

1813: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo / Signor Bruschino, or The Accidental Son"

1820: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "La Bergère châtelaine"

1823: Édouard Lalo is born

1823: FP of Catterino Cavos' "Kavkazskiy plennik, ili Ten nevesty [Кавказский пленник, или Тень невесты] / Prisoner of the Caucasus or The Bride's Shadow"

1844: FP of Franz Erkel's "Hunyadi László"

1848: Carl Vollweiler dies

1849: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Battaglia di Legnano / The Battle of Legnano"

1855: FP of Giuseppe Apolloni's "L'Ebreo"

1855: FP of Paolo Giorza's "Shakespeare ovvero Il sogno di una notte di mezza estate / Shakespeare or a Midsummer Night's Dream"

1859: Wilhelm II. is born

1866: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Zaide"

1872: FP of Édouard Lalo's "Sonate pour piano et violoncelle / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1873: François Rasse is born

1885: Jerome David Kern is born

1885: Eduard Künneke is born

1891: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Königspsalm"

1895: Cláudio Carneyro is born

1898: FP of Théodore Dubois' "Violinkonzert / Violin Concerto"

1901: Giuseppe Verdi dies

1905: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Requiem"

1906: Radamés Gnattali is born

1906: FP of Richard Strauss' "Militärischer Festmarsch"

1919: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Streichquartett / String Quartet"

1919: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano"

1925: Stanley Weiner is born

1928: Jean-Michel Damase is born

1930: Jean Huré dies

1932: FP of Dora Pejačević's "Streichquartett / String Quartet"

1936: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Te Deum in C major"

1939: Tigran Manssurjan is born

1941: Iver Holter dies

1945: Gideon Klein dies

1949: Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev dies

1950: FP of Sándor Veress' "Vier transsylvanische Tänze"

1953: Raymond Deane is born

1953: FP of Germaine Tailleferre's "Concertino / Concert Piece"

1955: FP of Michael Tippett's "The Midsummer Marriage"

1956: Arthur Jarvinen is born

1956: Erich Kleiber dies

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Eclogue"

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "I Said to Love: I need not go"

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "I Said to Love: At Middle-Field Gate in February"

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "I Said to Love: Two lips"

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "I Said to Love: In five-score summers"

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "I Said to Love: For Life I had never cared greatly"

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "I Said to Love: I said to Love"

1962: Grant Aramovich Grigorian dies

1968: Éric Tanguy is born

1969: Hanns Jelinek dies

1972: FP of Giselher Klebe's "Das Testament"

1978: Marguerite Canal dies

1980: FP of George Rochberg's "String Quartet No. 7"

1981: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Concert spirituel"

1989: FP of Barbara Heller's "Lalai für Violine und Klavier"

2000: Friedrich Gulda dies

2000: FP of Annette Schlünz' "aufgelöst (verschlungen)"

2001: André Prévost dies