Classical Calendar: What happened on 31 January ?

1679: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Bellérophon"

1727: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Admeto, re di Tessaglia / Admetus, King of Thessaly"

1735: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit"

1735: FP of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "L' Olimpiade"

1736: FP of Francesco Corradini's "Dar el ser hijo al padre"

1745: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Ippolito"

1759: François Devienne is born

1765: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Sémiramis"

1767: FP of Quirino Gasparini's "Mitridate, re di Ponto"

1788: Felice Romani is born

1797: Franz Schubert is born

1798: Carl Gottlieb Reißiger is born

1803: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Eropolis"

1809: FP of E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Huldigung"

1824: FP of Carl Gottlieb Reißiger's "Didone abbandonata"

1838: Franz Lehar (senior) is born

1843: J. H. Franz is born

1873: FP of Felix Draeseke's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1880: FP of Alfredo Catalani's "Elda"

1881: FP of August Klughardt's "Gudrun"

1886: FP of Giuseppe Martucci's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 / Piano Concerto No. 2"

1887: Rosette Ehrmann is born

1887: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Cherevichki [Черевички] / The Slippers"

1891: Max Drischner is born

1897: FP of Richard Strauss' "Franz Schubert: Ganymed"

1906: Benjamin Frankel is born

1909: Hermann Schröder dies

1913: FP of Hugo Kaun's "Am Rhein"

1918: Daniël de Lange dies

1920: FP of Richard Strauss' "Der Bürger als Edelmann"

1925: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Kdo je na světě nejmocnější?"

1926: Vytautas Klova is born

1927: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Rout"

1931: Celina Kohan de Scher is born

1933: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Sinfonietta"

1934: FP of Gustav Holst's "The Wandering Scholar"

1935: Josef Peter Heinzer is born

1936: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Fünf Lieder für Sopran und Klavier von Richard Wetz"

1937: Philip Glass is born

1939: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 / Piano Concerto No. 5"

1943: FP of Richard Strauss' "Divertimento nach François Couperin"

1950: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Serenade für doppeltes Streichorchester"

1960: George Benjamin is born

1960: FP of Michael Tippett's "Lullaby"

1966: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Fünf Miniaturen / Five Miniatures"

1969: Misato Mochizuki is born

1974: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Concerto veneziano"

1989: Yasushi Akutagawa dies

1992: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Sonate en un mouvement"

1993: FP of Hans Georg Pflüger's "Klavierkonzert / Piano Concerto"

1993: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Streichquartett Nr. 4 / String Quartet No. 4"

1994: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Nuée-traces"

1995: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Points vacillants"

1999: FP of Fabian Müller's "Intrada"

2007: FP of Gerhard Stäbler's "TSUKI, SUBARU"

2009: FP of Fabian Müller's "Fantasie für Klarinette und Streichorchester"

2010: Jürg Baur dies

2017: Matilde Capuis dies