Classical Calendar: What happened on 5 April ?
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