Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 March ?

1635: FP of Samuel Scheidt's "Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt"

1734: Joseph Schmitt is born

1756: Johann Christoph Vogel is born

1774: Johann Heinrich Carl Bornhardt is born

1778: FP of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's "Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu"

1813: Friedrich Hebbel is born

1818: Antonio Caputi dies

1821: Charles Edward Stephens is born

1823: Jean-Baptiste Bréval dies

1840: Gaetano Corticelli dies

1844: Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov is born

1875: FP of Jules Massenet's "Eve"

1879: Grigorij Krein is born

1881: Paul le Flem is born

1882: Gian Francesco Malipiero is born

1882: FP of Richard Strauss' "Variationen über 'Das Dirndl is harb auf mi'"

1896: Eduard Erdmann is born

1901: FP of Fernand Le Borne's "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1905: FP of Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz' "Cellosonate Nr. 1 / Cello Sonata No. 1"

1911: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Abendzauber"

1914: César Guerra-Peixe is born

1914: FP of Gustav Holst's "Hymn to Agni (the sacrificial fire)"

1914: FP of Gustav Holst's "Hymn to Soma (the juice of a herb)"

1914: FP of Gustav Holst's "Hymn to Manas (... the spririt of a dying man)"

1914: FP of Gustav Holst's "Hymn to Indra (... god of heaven, storm and battle)"

1919: FP of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Gaudeamus"

1919: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Phantasie"

1920: Glauco Cataldo is born

1922: FP of Igor Fjodorowitsch Strawinski's "Bayka [Байка] / Renard"

1923: FP of Julius Bittner's "Das Rosengärtlein"

1924: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1924: FP of Charles Ives' "Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano"

1929: Ctirad Kohoutek is born

1929: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Serenade"

1932: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Les Rondes"

1934: FP of Gustav Holst's "Lyric Movement"

1937: Mélanie Bonis dies

1937: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Veselohra na mostě / Comedy On The Bridge"

1938: Cyril Rootham dies

1946: Robert Walker is born

1947: Willem Pijper dies

1950: James Conlon is born

1953: Takashi Yoshimatsu is born

1956: Eduardo Alonso-Crespo is born

1956: Ulrich Schultheiß is born

1957: Bechara El-Khoury is born

1957: Andrew Ford is born

1961: Hanna Kulenty is born

1971: Karl Klingler dies

1971: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Toccata und Passacaglia"

1975: Olga Virezoub is born

1976: Robert de Roos dies

1979: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Doubles"

1989: FP of Barbara Heller's "Nah oder Fern"

1991: Silvio Omizzolo dies

1994: William Laurence Bergsma dies

2001: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Ein Edelstein in einer einfachen Einfassung Nr. 2"

2001: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Adagio und Fuge für 12 Celli"

2004: FP of Lera Auerbach's "Twenty-four Preludes for Violin and Piano"

2010: FP of Bruno Mantovani's "Siddharta"