Classical Calendar: What happened on 16 March ?

1572: Daniel Bacheler is born

1663: Jean-Baptiste Matho is born

1736: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi dies

1743: Jean-Baptiste Matho dies

1750: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Theodora"

1750: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Orgelkonzert Nr. 11 / Organ Concerto No. 11"

1794: João de Deus Castro Lobo is born

1802: FP of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's "Il Rinaldo d'Asti"

1833: FP of Vincenzo Bellini's "Beatrice di Tenda"

1857: FP of Eduard Hamel's "Malwina"

1864: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Géorgiennes"

1871: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Cellokonsert / Cello Concerto"

1879: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Psalm 149: Allegro moderato"

1887: Emanuel Kania dies

1890: Alois Strohmayer dies

1891: FP of Jules Massenet's "Le Mage"

1894: FP of Jules Massenet's "Thaïs"

1903: Nikolai Lopatnikoff is born

1904: FP of Henri Rabaud's "La Fille de Roland"

1905: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Amica"

1905: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Konzert für Violoncell"

1911: FP of Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski's "Sorochinskaya yarmarka [Сорочинская ярмарка] / The Fair at Sorochinsk"

1919: Sigurd von Koch dies

1920: Gerhard Wohlgemuth is born

1923: Heinz Wallberg is born

1925: Lubomír Železný is born

1927: FP of Charles Koechlin's "Nouvelle Sonatine N° 4"

1929: Edwin London is born

1930: Harald Banter is born

1932: FP of Gerald Finzi's "New Year Music"

1932: FP of Ottorino Respighi's "Maria Egiziaca / Mary of Egypt"

1934: Sir Roger Norrington is born

1937: David del Tredici is born

1938: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Julietta aneb Snář / Julietta or A Dream-Book"

1941: Bernhard Sieber is born

1942: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Sinfonietta giocosa"

1943: Adrian Jack is born

1943: FP of Vítězslav Novák's "Pět smíšených sborů"

1944: Pekka Kostiainen is born

1953: Claus Peter Flor is born

1954: Miklós Csemiczky is born

1956: Vladimir Godár is born

1961: Václav Talich dies

1963: Johannes Harneit is born

1966: Heinrich Lemacher dies

1967: Dan Dediu is born

1967: James Friskin dies

1968: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco dies

1982: FP of William Walton's "Passacaglia for Cello Solo"

1983: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Streichquartett Nr. 13 / String Quartet No. 13"

1985: Roger Sessions dies

1988: FP of Samuel Adler's "Pasiphae"

1993: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Duo für Akkordeon und Kontrabass"

1994: Nicolas Flagello dies

1995: Heinrich Sutermeister dies

2005: FP of Paul Patterson's "The Fifth Continent"

2014: Mitch Leigh dies

2015: Walter Baer dies