Classical Calendar: What happened on 29 March ?

1647: Antonio Teodoro Ortells is born

1668: FP of  Leopold I.'s "Il Lutto dell' Universo"

1697: Nicolaus Bruhns dies

1747: Johann Wilhelm Häßler is born

1788: Charles Wesley dies

1795: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 / Piano Concerto No. 2"

1798: FP of Joseph Haydn's "Die Schöpfung / The Creation"

1802: Samuel Felsted dies

1803: FP of Giovanni Paisiello's "Proserpine"

1806: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ouvertüre III zur Oper 'Leonore'"

1821: FP of Ferdinando Paër's "Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu"

1822: Johann Wilhelm Häßler dies

1825: Johann-Andreas Amon dies

1828: FP of Heinrich August Marschner's "Der Vampyr / The Vampire"

1836: FP of Richard Wagner's "Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo / The Ban on Love or The Novice of Palermo"

1842: FP of Holger Simon Paulli's "Napoli eller Fiskeren og hans Brud"

1848: Hugo Staehle dies

1872: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Ecce lignum crucis / Oto drzewo krzyza"

1879: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Yevgeniy Onyegin [Евгений Онегин] / Eugene Onegin"

1886: Gustaf Bengtsson is born

1888: Charles Valentin Alkan dies

1889: Pierre Vellones is born

1891: Georg Nellius is born

1902: William Walton is born

1903: Karl Andersen is born

1906: FP of Alberto Franchetti's "Notte di legenda"

1911: Felix Alexandre Guilmant dies

1924: Charles Villiers Stanford dies

1928: Václav Felix is born

1933: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Klavierquintett / Piano Quintet"

1934: FP of Paul Abraham's "Märchen im Grand-Hotel"

1936: Richard Rodney Bennett is born

1937: Karol Szymanowski dies

1949: Harri Wessman is born

1953: Fritz Hauser is born

1956: FP of Henri Tomasi's "Miguel Mañara, ou Don Juan de Mañara"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Little Bingo"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Widow Bird sate Mourning"

1972: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Ode for Sir William Walton"

1973: FP of Joanna Bruzdowicz' "Trojanki"

1973: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Pour Orchestre"

1974: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Wings"

1974: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Tři kusy pro flétnu / Three Pieces for flute"

1982: Carl Orff dies

1984: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Suite für kleines Blasorchester"

1996: FP of Ljudmila Jurina's "Distanzierung"

2005: Jan Astriab dies

2005: FP of Arvo Pärt's "Da pacem Domine"

2008: Dimitri Nicolau dies

2009: Maurice Jarre dies

2011: FP of Paul Engel's "Klaviertrio Nr. 6 / Piano Trio No. 6"

2015: Božidar Kos dies

2016: Donald Harris dies

2020: Krzysztof Penderecki dies