Classical Calendar: What happened on 6 March ?

1616: Malachias Siebenhaar is born

1763: Jean-Xavier Lefèvre is born

1785: Karol Kurpiński is born

1829: Heinrich Lichner is born

1831: FP of Vincenzo Bellini's "La sonnambula / The Sleepwalker"

1841: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Les Diamants de la couronne"

1851: Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabiev dies

1851: Amalia Emma Sophie Hartmann dies

1852: Joseph Bayer is born

1853: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata"

1860: Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer dies

1870: Oscar Straus is born

1871: August Reuß is born

1872: Paul Juon is born

1882: FP of Édouard Lalo's "Namouna"

1895: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Trennung"

1897: Knudåge Riisager is born

1902: Mansour Muzafarov is born

1902: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Sechs Walzer"

1906: Annie van den Brink-Pothuis is born

1907: FP of Richard Strauss' "Militärmarsch"

1907: FP of Richard Strauss' "Kriegsmarsch"

1910: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "W. A. Mozart: Maurische Trauermusik"

1914: Kirill Kondrashin is born

1916: Carin Malmlöf-Forssling is born

1923: Erhard Karkoschka is born

1924: FP of Charles Koechlin's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1926: Miroslav Klega is born

1928: Ronald Stevenson is born

1930: Lorin Maazel is born

1931: Lambert Adriaan van Tetterode dies

1932: John Philip Sousa dies

1934: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Simple Symphony"

1936: Rubin Goldmark dies

1936: Josef Stránský dies

1942: Menachem Zur is born

1945: Rudolf Karel dies

1948: Stephen Schwartz is born

1962: Rezső Kókai dies

1967: Zoltán Kodály dies

1968: Iša Krejčí dies

1984: Pierre Cochereau dies

1985: FP of Judith Weir's "The Black Spider"

1988: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Zwei Elegien"

1991: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Votivlieder"

1993: Walther Geiser dies

1995: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Nachtgesichter"

1998: Pierre Villette dies

1998: FP of Theodor Hassek's "Toccata in F-Dur für 1 Klavier zu 4 Händen"

2000: Yves Chardon dies

2008: FP of Hermann Seidl's "ars multiplicata (II)"

2008: FP of Hermann Seidl's "quadruplum"

2008: FP of Hermann Seidl's "zwei skizzen / Two Sketches"

2008: FP of Hermann Seidl's "ars multiplicata (I)"

2009: Jeannot Heinen dies

2009: Henri Pousseur dies

2010: Ole Schmidt dies

2017: Alberto Zedda dies