Classical Calendar: What happened on 20 April ?

1643: Johann Christoph Demantius dies

1804: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Le Pavillon du calife"

1814: Theodor Döhler is born

1845: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Fridolin oder Der Gang zum Eisenhammer"

1858: Auguste Chapuis is born

1860: FP of Hans Christian Lumbye's "Fjernt fra Danmark eller Et Kostumebal ombord / Far from Denmark, or A Masked Ball on Board"

1869: Carl Loewe dies

1875: Joseph Pembaur is born

1881: Sem Dresden is born

1881: Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky is born

1885: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Weit über das Feld"

1900: Hippolyte François Rabaud dies

1900: Fred Raymond is born

1902: Johannes Hannemann is born

1912: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Des Teufels Großmutter"

1913: Ernest Bour is born

1924: Gerhard Samuel is born

1927: Luis de los Cobos Almaraz is born

1931: FP of Maud Laurent's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1935: FP of Paul Abraham's "Történnek még csodák"

1937: Svend Nielsen is born

1943: John Eliot Gardiner is born

1946: Alfred Rahlwes dies

1946: Marcel Wengler is born

1952: Robert Kyr is born

1956: FP of Paul Huber's "Requiem"

1963: Isabel Mundry is born

1981: FP of Samuel Adler's "Thy Song Expands My Spirit"

1994: FP of Judith Weir's "Blond Eckbert"

1996: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Saxophon-Trio"

2000: Eugene Hartzell dies

2001: Giuseppe Sinopoli dies

2002: FP of Barbara Heller's "Roter Klee"

2002: FP of Barbara Heller's "Träumerisch"

2002: FP of Barbara Heller's "Tiger im Käfig"

2005: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Duo für Viola und Tuba"

2008: Frank Michael Beyer dies

2008: Jiří Kalach dies

2008: FP of Michael Denhoff's "Fünf Epigramme"

2019: Martin Böttcher dies