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1617: Alonso Lobo dies

1727: Pasquale Anfossi is born

1732: Johann Christian Schieferdecker dies

1755: Václav Mašek is born

1784: Louis Spohr is born

1803: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 / Piano Concerto No. 3"

1803: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1820: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Agnus Dei"

1828: Pietro Platania is born

1850: Max Meyer-Olbersleben is born

1850: FP of Ernest Reyer's "Le Sélam"

1869: Albert Roussel is born

1873: FP of Léo Delibes' "Fleur-de-lys"

1874: FP of Johann (Sohn) Strauss' "Die Fledermaus"

1876: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Quartett Nr. 1 für zwei Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncell [Streichquartett Nr. 1] / String Quartet No. 1"

1878: Wilhelm Speyer dies

1885: FP of Georges Bizet's "Noé"

1908: Herbert von Karajan is born

1912: Carlos Guastavino is born

1916: FP of Leo Blech's "Zwei Militärmärsche"

1917: Richard Yardumian is born

1921: Alphons Diepenbrock dies

1924: Rosalind Ellicott dies

1925: Oldrich Flosman is born

1930: FP of Walter Kollo's "Majestät lässt bitten"

1935: Emile Młynarski dies

1939: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Ballad of Heroes"

1941: FP of Richard Strauss' "Verklungene Feste"

1946: FP of Samuel Barber's "Concerto for Violoncello"

1946: FP of Charles Ives' "Symphony No. 3"

1954: Claude Delvincourt dies

1980: Max Brand dies

1984: FP of Michael Tippett's "The Mask of Time"

1986: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Acht ächte Tyroller Liader"

1987: FP of Philip Glass' "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"

1995: FP of Philip Martin's "Gwenny Variations"

1997: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Quasi una fuga"

1997: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Triptychon"

1997: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Heidelberg"

2015: Richard LaSalle dies

2015: Claudio Prieto dies

2018: Wolfgang Strauss dies