Classical Calendar: What happened on 9 April ?

1598: Johann Crüger is born

1627: Johann Caspar Kerll is born

1717: Matthias Georg Monn is born

1749: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "La contesa de' Numi"

1754: Anton Felix Beczwarzowsky is born

1757: Wojciech Bogusławski is born

1793: Ernestus Weinrauch dies

1794: Theobald Boehm is born

1809: FP of E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Das Gespenst"

1814: Félix Battanchon is born

1845: FP of Ferdinand Hiller's "Ein Traum in der Christnacht"

1846: Francesco Paolo Tosti is born

1855: Josef Hellmesberger Jr. is born

1857: FP of Georges Bizet's "Le Docteur Miracle"

1862: FP of Franz Adolf Berwald's "Estrella de Soria"

1870: Georges Sporck is born

1874: Julius Bittner is born

1874: Georg Walter Huber is born

1883: Renzo Bossi is born

1887: Florence Price is born

1894: Ernest Kanitz is born

1895: Rudolf Kattnigg is born

1902: FP of Ethel Smyth's "Der Wald / The Forest"

1904: Henri Lenormand is born

1906: Antal Doráti is born

1908: Fred Lohse is born

1909: Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky is born

1916: FP of Manuel de Falla's "Noches en los jardines de españa"

1918: FP of Richard Strauss' "Der Bürger als Edelmann"

1920: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Brand"

1920: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Zwei Gesänge nach Walter Calé / Two Songs after Walter Calé"

1920: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Herbstlieder / Autumn Songs"

1921: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Pevec lásky"

1924: Stephan Krehl dies

1927: Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh is born

1930: FP of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's "Symphonie Nr. 4 / Symphony No. 4"

1931: Myriam Marbe is born

1932: Armin Jordan is born

1933: Sigfrid Karg-Elert dies

1935: Aulis Sallinen is born

1940: Ken'ichiro Kobayashi is born

1941: FP of Arthur Bliss' "String Quartet No. 1"

1943: FP of Richard Strauss' "Festmusik der Stadt Wien"

1944: Silvia Sommer is born

1947: Konrad Friedrich Noetel dies

1948: FP of Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915"

1953: Jim Fox is born

1954: FP of Charles Ives' "Symphony No. 5"

1955: Bob Chilcott is born

1960: Arthur Benjamin dies

1961: Melcher Melchers dies

1964: Max Ast dies

1976: Akio Yashiro dies

1985: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

1991: FP of Erich Urbanner's "... in Bewegung ..."

1999: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Fanfare"

2004: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Cobalt"

2005: FP of Paul Patterson's "Orchestra on Parade"

2006: Robin Orr dies

2009: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"

2011: FP of Veronica Anghelescu's "I Shall Be the Black Sun"

2013: Erkegali Rakhmadiev dies

2020: Dmitri Smirnov dies