Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 April ?

1533: Claudio Merulo is born

1692: Giuseppe Tartini is born

1697: Pierre Prowo is born

1722: Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht is born

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats"

1731: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt"

1781: FP of Johann-Friedrich Edelmann's "Esther"

1784: Dionysio Aguado is born

1786: FP of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf's "Giob"

1795: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "La Pauvre Femme"

1797: Andreas Bibl is born

1814: FP of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's "L'eroina di Raab"

1815: Jan Jakub Ryba dies

1822: Giuseppe Apolloni is born

1834: FP of Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn's "Das Schwanenmädchen"

1843: Asger Hamerik is born

1848: Gaetano Donizetti dies

1862: Eduard Behm is born

1869: Zygmunt Stojowski is born

1870: Charles-Auguste de Bériot dies

1876: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Gioconda"

1889: Emil Frey is born

1889: Sir Adrian Boult is born

1894: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

1896: Karl Hermann Pillney is born

1897: Herbert Eimert is born

1902: Josef Krips is born

1904: John Antill is born

1908: Heinz Richard Schubert is born

1919: FP of Hjalmar Borgstrøm's "Pianokvintett / Piano Quintet"

1920: Charles Tomlinson Griffes dies

1920: FP of Zoltán Kodály's "Serenade"

1921: Jan Novák is born

1924: FP of Rhené-Baton's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1928: Ludvig Holm dies

1931: René Maillard is born

1931: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Bolt [Болт] / The Bolt"

1932: John Kinsella is born

1936: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Streichquartett / String Quartet"

1937: Arthur William Foote dies

1944: Giedrius Kuprevičius is born

1946: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Adam Zero"

1956: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Trojhlasé písně / Three-Part Songs"

1961: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Variations classiques"

1968: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Scroll for Li-Ho"

1970: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Utrenja I"

1979: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Adagietto"

1985: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Koncert pro klavír a dechové nástroje / Piano Concerto No. 2"

1996: Fried Walter dies

1996: FP of Ljudmila Jurina's "S-re Beresciolo Sinfonia for 2 Oboi and chamber orchestra"

2001: FP of Lera Auerbach's "Images from Childhood"

2003: Maki Ishii dies