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1605: Oratio Tiberio Vecchi dies

1656: FP of Pietro Antonio Cesti's "L'Orontea"

1657: FP of Pietro Antonio Cesti's "La Dori, overo Lo Schiavo reggio"

1659: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "La raillerie"

1661: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "L'impatience"

1734: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Blast Lärmen, ihr Feinde! verstärket die Macht"

1736: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick"

1736: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Orgelkonzert Nr. 6 / Organ Concerto No. 6"

1743: Luigi Boccherini is born

1763: FP of Johann Christian Bach's "Orione o sia Diana vendicata"

1774: FP of Johann August Just's "Die Apotheke"

1790: Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz dies

1812: Lauro Rossi is born

1815: Leonhard von Call dies

1841: Elfrida Andrée is born

1842: FP of Alessandro Nini's "Odalisa"

1854: Paul Chabeaux is born

1863: Emánuel Moór is born

1869: FP of Albert Hermann Dietrich's "Sinfonie für großes Orchester"

1877: Louis François Marie Aubert is born

1877: FP of Joseph Joachim Raff's "Klavierquartett Nr. 1 / Piano Quartet No. 1"

1885: Thomas de Hartmann is born

1886: George Luther Foote is born

1888: Rosy Wertheim is born

1892: FP of Sigismond Stojowski's "À Stella"

1892: FP of Sigismond Stojowski's "Chanson de mer"

1892: FP of Sigismond Stojowski's "Hommage à Hans von Bülow"

1892: FP of Sigismond Stojowski's "Variations et Fugue pour deux violons, alto et violoncelle"

1894: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas brasileiras Nr. 3"

1906: Grace Williams is born

1910: FP of Jules Massenet's "Don Quichotte"

1911: Nikolai von Wilm dies

1912: Carl Hess dies

1913: Alvin Etler is born

1914: FP of Riccardo Zandonai's "Francesca da Rimini"

1922: Josef Matěj is born

1923: Josef Pembaur dies

1925: Jindrich Feld is born

1926: György Kurtág is born

1927: Robert Fuchs dies

1929: Cesare Galeotti dies

1930: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Maria vor dem Kreuze"

1930: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Sonate für 2 Geigen und kleines Orchester"

1932: Max Gulbins dies

1938: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Prosperos Beschwörungen"

1940: John van der Slice is born

1941: Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty dies

1945: Gerd Domhardt is born

1946: Alexander Tschaikowsky is born

1953: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Rhapsody-Concerto"

1970: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Hexameron"

1975: Luigi Dallapiccola dies

1981: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Sonata a cinque"

1984: Waldemar Bloch dies

1984: FP of Günter Bialas' "Offenbach-Metamorphosen"

1985: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Symphony No. 3"

1986: Francisco Mignone dies

1994: Vittorio Rieti dies

1995: FP of Michael Tippett's "The Rose Lake"

1996: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Fanfare für die Rudolfinger-Redoute"

2000: Marin Goleminov dies

2003: FP of Émile Agnel's "Sonate for Violoncello and Piano"

2011: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Nyx"

2018: Evžen Zámečník dies

2022: Nigel Butterley dies