Classical Calendar: What happened on 23 March ?

1599: Thomas Selle is born

1675: Anthoni van Noordt dies

1731: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Markus-Passion"

1748: Johann Gottfried Walther dies

1750: Johann Matthias Sperger is born

1761: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "La halte des Calmouckes"

1783: Gaspard Fritz dies

1806: George Frederick Pinto dies

1809: Ferdinand Philippe Joseph Staes dies

1810: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Kærlighed paa landet"

1811: Wilhelm Taubert is born

1818: Nicolò Isouard dies

1819: August von Kotzebue dies

1826: Leon Minkus is born

1828: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Streichquartett Nr. 16 / String Quartet No. 16"

1834: Julius Reubke is born

1844: Eugène Gigout is born

1856: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Mam'zelle Geneviève"

1859: Carl Hess is born

1861: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Pont des soupirs"

1864: Hjalmar Borgstrøm is born

1864: Louis Christian August Glass is born

1869: Albert Methfessel dies

1872: Hugo Ulrich dies

1878: Franz Schreker is born

1884: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Drei Intermezzi für Orchester"

1892: Catherine Murphy Urner is born

1893: August Horn dies

1895: Dane Rudhyar is born

1897: FP of Richard Strauss' "Enoch Arden"

1901: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Herzog Wildfang"

1909: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Sonate für Geige und Klavier / Violin Sonata"

1918: Matilde Salvador is born

1920: Geoffrey Bush is born

1922: FP of Frederick Delius' "Requiem"

1925: FP of Alexandre Tansman's "Sinfonietta N° 1 / Sinfonietta no. 1"

1928: FP of Miklós Rózsa's "Streichtrio / String Trio"

1932: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Pinotta"

1933: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Der Abend"

1934: Teresa Proccacini is born

1935: FP of Louis Dumas' "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1936: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Three Short Elegies: Life a right shadow is"

1936: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Three Short Elegies: This world a hunting is"

1936: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Three Short Elegies: This life, which seems so fair"

1939: Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko is born

1943: László Dubrovay is born

1944: Michael Nyman is born

1945: Franco Battiato is born

1946: Manuel Martinez-Sobral dies

1947: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Konzertstück für Flöte"

1959: Vato Kakhidze is born

1961: FP of Edward J. Miller's "Music for Orchestra"

1963: Antonia Sarcina is born

1970: Guy Weitz dies

1973: FP of Heimo Erbse's "Drei Studien"

1974: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Bruckner Dialog"

1974: FP of Jeannot Heinen's "Adagio für Flöte, Violine, Violoncello und Orgel"

1984: FP of Barbara Heller's "Eiskalt"

1984: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Song of Songs"

1984: FP of Nancy van de Vate's "Second Sonata"

1990: FP of Donald Young Sur's "Slavery Documents"

2001: FP of Paul Patterson's "Deviations"

2011: FP of Veronica Anghelescu's "Crossroads"