Classical Calendar: What happened on 7 March ?

1574: John Wilbye is born

1652: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Mascarade de la Foire de St-Germain"

1663: Tomaso Antonio Vitali is born

1748: William Corbett dies

1752: Pietro Castrucci dies

1782: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "L'Éclipse totale"

1783: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Le Corsaire (1. Fassung)"

1786: Franz Benda dies

1802: Johann Georg Witthauer dies

1809: Johann Georg Albrechtsberger dies

1823: Jean-Baptiste André is born

1824: FP of Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Il crociato in Egitto / The Crusader in Egypt"

1831: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Morceau d'ensemble"

1833: Franz Wohlfahrt is born

1840: Carl Oestreich dies

1854: FP of Richard Wagner's "C. W. Gluck: Iphigenie in Aulis"

1864: Léon Kuguet is born

1871: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Friedrich Rotbart"

1874: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "I Lituani / The Lithuanians"

1875: Maurice Ravel is born

1887: Heino Eller is born

1891: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Danza esotica"

1906: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Konzertstück / Concert Piece"

1907: Ludwig Gebhard is born

1915: Vladimir Michailovich Jurovski is born

1916: FP of Sigismond Stojowski's "A Prayer for Poland"

1917: Robert Erickson is born

1921: Mirko Dorner is born

1925: FP of Riccardo Zandonai's "I Cavalieri de Ekebù / The Knights of Ekebù"

1929: Irma Urteaga is born

1930: Andreas Makris is born

1930: FP of Walter Kollo's "Der doppelte Bräutigam"

1934: Kurt Hopstein is born

1937: FP of Samuel Barber's "I Hear an Army"

1946: Okko Kamu is born

1948: François Olivier dies

1958: Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen is born

1960: Tetsuji Emura is born

1965: Anthon van der Horst dies

1967: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Improvisationen II"

1968: José María Sánchez-Verdú is born

1977: FP of Kurt Weill's "Zwei Sätze für Streichquartett"

1979: Klaus Egge dies

1981: Kirill Kondrashin dies

1981: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Sonata brevis"

1983: Igor Markevitch dies

1983: Claude Vivier dies

1987: Peter Herz dies

1990: Claude Arrieu dies

1995: John Lambert dies

1996: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Concerto per clarinetto ed orchestra da camera"

2003: FP of Azio Corghi's "Senja"

2004: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Sonate pour violoncelle / Cello Sonata"

2007: Frigyes Hidas dies