Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 March ?

1566: Carlo Gesualdo von Venosa is born

1649: Johann Philipp Krieger is born

1699: José Marín dies

1714: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is born

1748: Jacob Klein dies

1799: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Primerose"

1812: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Feodore"

1815: Delphin Alard is born

1816: FP of Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Gli amori di Teolinda / The Loves of Teolinda"

1818: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Missa sancta Nr. 1"

1822: Miska Hauser is born

1828: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "L'eremitaggio di Liwerpool"

1834: FP of Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante's "Emma d'Antiochia"

1842: Carl von Radecki-Steinacker is born

1844: Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker is born

1848: FP of Richard Wagner's "G. P. da Palestrina: Stabat mater"

1852: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Nijoła"

1859: Otto Taubmann is born

1861: FP of Errico Petrella's "La contessa d'Amalfi"

1865: FP of Félicien-César David's "Le saphir"

1869: Hector Berlioz dies

1871: Gaston Borch is born

1872: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Fleurette oder Näherin und Trompeter"

1873: Vasilii Zolotarev is born

1876: Franco Alfano is born

1880: FP of Léo Delibes' "Jean de Nivelle"

1894: FP of César Franck's "Hulda"

1898: FP of Richard Strauss' "Don Quixote"

1899: FP of Henri de Saussine's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1901: Peter Benoit dies

1911: Emanuel Elenescu is born

1911: Alan Hovhaness is born

1919: Auguste Tolbecque dies

1919: FP of Lord Gerald Hugh Berners' "Trois Morceaux / Three Pieces"

1924: FP of Yves de La Casiniere's "Sonatine für Violoncello und Klavier"

1924: FP of Franz Lehár's "Cloclo / Lolotte"

1928: Frank Michael Beyer is born

1930: FP of Vítězslav Novák's "Nikotina"

1934: Christian Wolff is born

1936: Vic Nees is born

1941: Ivana Loudová is born

1941: José Serrano dies

1944: Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden dies

1944: Mathilde von Meyrswalden dies

1957: Othmar Schoeck dies

1958: Ståle Kleiberg is born

1961: Thomas Beecham dies

1964: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Messe / Mass"

1965: Evgueni Zoudilkine is born

1967: Till Alexander Körber is born

1981: Mana-Zucca dies

1983: Alexander Znosko-Borovsky dies

1983: William Walton dies

1993: Wilhelm Georg Berger dies

2002: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Laulu maasta"

2013: Martin Doernberg dies

2016: Claus Ogerman dies

2018: Milko Kelemen dies

2019: Michael Gielen dies

2021: Julien-François Zbinden dies

2022: René Clemencic dies