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1689: FP of Agostino Steffani's "Enrico Leone"

1697: Johann Joachim Quantz is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen"

1739: FP of Francesco Corradini's "La Clizie"

1765: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Telemaco ossia L'isola di Circe / Telemachus, or Circe's Island"

1774: Jean-Pierre Guignon dies

1774: František Ignác Antonín Tůma dies

1798: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Erik Ejegod"

1802: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Hiemkomsten"

1819: FP of Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Semiramide"

1820: Josepha Barbara von Auernhammer dies

1832: David August von Apell dies

1838: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Maria de Rudenz"

1857: Gustav Helsted is born

1861: Charles Martin Loeffler is born

1865: Fritz Zierau is born

1865: FP of Josef Strauss' "Geheime Anziehungskräfte (Dynamiden)"

1881: Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens dies

1892: Charles Haubiel is born

1897: Carl Grammann dies

1900: Rodolfo Halffter is born

1902: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1911: FP of Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi's "Frühlingsnacht"

1919: Robert Suter is born

1920: Pál Járdányi is born

1924: FP of Robert Casadesus' "Sonate pour piano et violoncelle / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1924: FP of Ernst Steffan's "Agri"

1926: Herman Emil Hutter dies

1927: Friedrich Ernst Koch dies

1928: Mitch Leigh is born

1928: FP of Henry Février's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1932: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Konzertwalzer"

1940: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Les Illuminations"

1942: Hélène-Frédérique De Faye-Jozin dies

1945: Percy Godfrey dies

1947: Martin Christoph Redel is born

1963: Francis Poulenc dies

1965: FP of Arthur Bliss' "March of Homage in Honour of a Great Man"

1966: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Thomasmesse"

1972: Karel Boleslav Jirák dies

1975: Boris Blacher dies

1976: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1977: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Constants"

1981: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Konzert für doppeltes Schlagzeug und Orchester"

1989: Ruth Wylie dies

1994: Finn Arnestad dies

1996: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Trafigurazione"

1998: Héctor Campos Parsi dies

1999: FP of Gerald Eckert's "dem schweigenden Antlitz"

2005: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Veilleur, où en est la Nuit ?"

2009: Erland von Koch dies

2010: FP of Carl Orff's "Gisei - Das Opfer"

2011: John Barry dies

2013: Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson dies

2015: Ezra Sims dies