Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 April ?

1669: Antonio Bertali dies

1683: Johann David Heinichen is born

1705: Johann Paul von Westhoff dies

1711: Joseph I. dies

1714: Philipp Heinrich Erlebach dies

1724: FP of Giacomo Facco's "Fieras afemina amor"

1733: FP of John Christopher Smith's "Ulysses"

1741: Johann Gottlieb Naumann is born

1764: Johann Mattheson dies

1774: Václav Jan Tomášek is born

1809: Johann Christian Kittel dies

1833: Jean Baptiste Accolay is born

1864: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Marias Kirchgang"

1864: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ruf zur Maria"

1864: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her"

1864: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata"

1874: FP of Jules Massenet's "L'adorable Bel'-Boul'"

1875: FP of Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein's "Die Maccabäer"

1876: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Vanda"

1882: Artur Schnabel is born

1883: Walter Wilhelm Goetze is born

1885: Cecil Burleigh is born

1894: Rudolf Peterka is born

1897: Harald Sæverud is born

1898: FP of Arnold Mendelssohn's "Der Hagestolz"

1900: Willy Burkhard is born

1903: Nicolas Nabokov is born

1903: Gregor Piatigorsky is born

1904: Joseph Ahrens is born

1910: FP of Vítězslav Novák's "Bouře / The Storm"

1911: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Zwei geistliche Lieder"

1914: FP of Christian Sinding's "Der heilige Berg / The Holy Mountain"

1915: FP of Gräfin Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach's "Sonate / Sonata"

1925: FP of Carl Orff's "Orpheus"

1928: FP of Igor Fjodorowitsch Strawinski's "Apollon Musagète"

1934: Karl Kapeller dies

1936: FP of Walter Kollo's "Mädel ahoi"

1941: Adolphus Hailstork is born

1949: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Messe / Mass"

1951: FP of Günter Bialas' "Indianische Kantate"

1958: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Skála / The Rock"

1959: Matthias Ronnefeld is born

1959: FP of Marius Constant's "Cyrano de Bergerac"

1960: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Písničky pro dětský sbor / Little Songs for Children’s Chorus"

1973: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1974: Herbert Elwell dies

1974: FP of Michael Kamen's "Rodin mis en vie"

1977: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Der 13. Psalm"

1978: Daniel Hensel is born

1978: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Sonate für Violine solo"

1982: Siegfried Barchet dies

1988: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Smyčcový kvartet č. 6 / String Quartet No. 6"

2000: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "anaptyxis"

2002: Srul Irving Glick dies

2005: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Scherzo für Streichquartett"

2009: Haim David Zukerwar dies

2011: Eric Gross dies

2013: Bernhard Krol dies

2015: František Gregor Emmert dies