Classical Calendar: What happened on 28 March ?

1687: Constantijn Huygens dies

1741: Johann André is born

1766: Joseph Weigl is born

1779: Angelo Maria Benincori is born

1801: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus oder Die Macht der Musik und des Tanzes / The Creatures of Pometheus"

1835: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Le Cheval de bronze / The Bronze Horse"

1838: Thomas Attwood dies

1847: FP of Georges Onslow's "Symphonie Nr. 4 / Symphony No. 4"

1853: Heinrich Eduard Josef von Lannoy dies

1854: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Vor Arneths Grab"

1859: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Serenade Nr. 1 / Serenade No. 1"

1860: Johann Ludwig Böhner dies

1871: Willem Mengelberg is born

1878: FP of August Klughardt's "Iwein"

1881: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky dies

1882: FP of Isaac Albéniz' "Catalans de Gracia"

1884: FP of Zdeněk Fibich's "Nevĕsta messinská / The Bride of Messina"

1885: Ludvig Norman dies

1885: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Svatební Košile / The Spectre's Bride"

1895: FP of Antonio Smareglia's "Nozze istriane / An Istrian wedding"

1896: Max Gebhard is born

1896: FP of Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chénier"

1906: Murray Adaskin is born

1912: FP of Fred Barlow's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1916: FP of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Der Ring des Polykrates / The Ring of Polykrates"

1916: FP of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Violanta"

1919: Jacob Avshalomov is born

1919: FP of Eduard Erdmann's "Fünf kleine Stücke für Klavier solo"

1921: Franz Tischhauser is born

1925: FP of Joseph Homberg's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1926: Lorenzo Parodi dies

1928: Josef Michel is born

1930: Robert Ashley is born

1940: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Violin Concerto D-Dur"

1943: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff dies

1956: Thomas de Hartmann dies

1968: Lluís Benejam i Agell dies

1981: Mikhaïl Nosyrev dies

1992: Josef Matěj dies

2003: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Den dobročinnosti / The Day of Good Deeds"

2012: Alexander Arutiunian dies

2015: Ronald Stevenson dies