Classical Calendar: What happened on 3 April ?

1639: Alessandro Stradella is born

1682: Valentin Rathgeber is born

1717: Christian Friedrich Witt dies

1761: FP of Antoine Dauvergne's "Hercule mourant"

1778: Francisco Corselli dies

1814: Louis Désiré Besozzi is born

1821: Louis Lewandowski is born

1838: Charles Henri René de Boisdeffre is born

1850: Václav Jan Tomášek dies

1856: Léo Sachs is born

1856: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Tromb-Al-Ca-Zar ou Les Criminels dramatiques"

1858: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm dies

1862: FP of Hermann Goetz' "Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 1"

1863: Wilhelm Middelschulte is born

1867: FP of Jules Massenet's "La Grand' Tante"

1868: Franz Adolf Berwald dies

1868: FP of Franz Adolf Berwald's "Drottningen av Golconda"

1869: FP of Filippo Marchetti's "Ruy Blas"

1882: Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken dies

1889: Grigoraș Dinicu is born

1895: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is born

1895: Zez Confrey is born

1897: Johannes Brahms dies

1897: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Die Passion"

1913: George Barati is born

1913: FP of Albert Roussel's "Le festin de l'araignée"

1917: Michael Braunfels is born

1918: André Laporte dies

1918: Sixten Ehrling is born

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Beneath The Eastern Moon"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Good-Night, My Dear"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "In The Rain"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Innocent Lonesome Blue Baby"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Moonlight In Versailles"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Oh! Nina"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Strut Lady With Me"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Sunday In London Town"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Sweetheart (I'm So Glad That I Met You)"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "All Over Town"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Any Little Tune"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Give Me My Mammy"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Midnight Blues"

1925: FP of Gustav Holst's "At the Boar's Head"

1927: Ladislav Burlas is born

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Double Concerto"

1930: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Svatý Václav"

1942: Paul Gilson dies

1944: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Concerto für Orchester"

1947: Anders Eliasson is born

1949: Basil Harwood dies

1950: Kurt Weill dies

1958: FP of Carlos Surinach's "Embattled Garden"

1962: Manolis Kalomiris dies

1968: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Sonate / Sonata"

1972: Ferde Grofé dies

1976: György Láng dies

1979: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Sonate für Viola und Klavier"

1993: FP of Joanna Bruzdowicz' "Stabat Mater"

1995: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "The Beltane Fire"

2001: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Stefan"

2004: Nikita Bogoslovsky dies

2004: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Solo VIII"