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1618: FP of Heinrich Schütz' "Wohl dem, der ein tugendsam Weib hat"

1715: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret"

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Denn du wirst meine Seele nicht in der Hölle lassen"

1801: FP of Johann Simon Mayr's "Ginevra di Scozia"

1827: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "La Folle de Glaris"

1845: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Undine"

1852: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Bonhomme jadis"

1871: Leo Blech is born

1878: Temistocle Solera dies

1898: Louis Théodore Gouvy dies

1899: Randall Thompson is born

1910: FP of Selim Palmgren's "Daniel Hjort"

1914: FP of Paul Viardot's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1918: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1920: Bruno Maderna is born

1921: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Conversations"

1922: Pierre Petit is born

1923: FP of Nico Dostal's "Lagunenzauber"

1926: FP of Manfred Gurlitt's "Wozzeck"

1933: Easley Blackwood is born

1936: Lionel Rogg is born

1936: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Suite"

1937: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "La Fantaisie"

1939: John McCabe is born

1951: Alexander Abramovich Krejn dies

1955: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Birthday Greeting to Her Majesty"

1956: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Konzert für Klavier und Orchester in einem Satz"

1958: Manuel Infante dies

1959: FP of Günter Bialas' "Sonata piccola"

1967: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Exodus"

1970: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Streichquartett Nr. 9 / String Quartet No. 9"

1973: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Metamorphic Variations"

1978: FP of György Kurtág's "Hommage à András Mihály"

1983: FP of Peter Lieberson's "Piano Concerto"

1986: Stephan Cosacchi dies

1988: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Nächtliche Szene im Park"

1991: Willibald "Willi" Boskovsky dies

1993: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Kolotoč života / Carousel of Life"

2001: FP of Philip Glass' "Trilogy"

2013: Jean-Michel Damase dies