Classical Calendar: What happened on 21 March ?

1685: Johann Sebastian Bach is born

1710: James Oswald is born

1799: Carl Mayer is born

1799: FP of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's "Dankgefühl einer Geretteten"

1801: Andrea Luca Lucchesi dies

1826: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Streichquartett Nr. 13 / String Quartet No. 13"

1836: Jesús de Monasterio is born

1839: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky is born

1839: FP of Franz Schubert's "Symphonie Nr. 8 / Symphony No. 8"

1860: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ballade Nr. 2 / Ballad No. 2"

1860: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ballade Nr. 3 / Ballad No. 3"

1863: Hugo Kaun is born

1866: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Leichte Kavallerie"

1874: FP of Edmund Kretschmer's "Die Folkunger"

1875: Amédée Reuchsel is born

1883: Julius Joseph Paul Maria van Nuffel is born

1884: Charles Hylton Stewart is born

1888: Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky is born

1896: FP of Karl Goldmark's "Heimchen am Herd"

1899: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Regina"

1900: Paul Kletzki is born

1904: Nikos Skalkottas is born

1914: Paul Tortelier is born

1914: FP of George Gershwin's "Tango"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "Some Rain Must Fall"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "Boy Wanted"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "Dancing Shoes"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "Just to Know You Are Mine"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "The Simple Life"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "Anything For You"

1921: FP of George Gershwin's "True Love"

1924: Karl-Heinz Füssl is born

1924: FP of Arthur Bliss' "King Solomon"

1934: Franz Schreker dies

1935: Saúl Cosentino is born

1936: Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov dies

1937: FP of Percy Whitlock's "Symphony g-Moll"

1942: Albert Fébvre-Longeray dies

1946: Jean-Baptiste Ganaye dies

1946: Zsolt Gárdonyi is born

1949: Erwin Lendvai dies

1950: Elena Firsova is born

1951: Willem Mengelberg dies

1954: Gilles Raynal is born

1956: László Tihanyi is born

1961: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Vier Lieder / Four Songs"

1968: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Sonatine für Violoncello und Klavier"

1971: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Triptych"

1985: FP of Barbara Heller's "Currants - Johannisbeeren"

1986: FP of Günter Bialas' "Lamento di Orlando"

1986: FP of Barbara Heller's "Tonkette"

1986: FP of Barbara Heller's "Requiem fürs Mäuseherz"

1990: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Bajka / Fable"

1990: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Rotation"

1991: Clifford Julstrom dies

1995: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Gebet und Verzweiflung"

1998: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Petit édifice"