Classical Calendar: What happened on 27 April ?

1767: Andreas Jakob Romberg is born

1768: FP of Michael Haydn's "Die Hochzeit auf der Alm / The Wedding on the Alpine Pasture"

1776: Hyacinthe Jadin is born

1785: Conrad-Matthias Berg is born

1795: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Adèle et Dorsan"

1799: Amédée Rasetti dies

1812: Friedrich von Flotow is born

1824: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Les Trois Genres"

1858: Hilda Sehested is born

1861: Georgy Catoire is born

1866: Amélia de Mesquita is born

1867: FP of Charles François Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette"

1867: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Banditenstreiche"

1871: Sigismund Thalberg dies

1877: FP of Jules Massenet's "Le Roi de Lahore / The King of Lahore"

1913: FP of Benedetto Marcello's "Arianna"

1915: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin dies

1916: FP of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Goffredo Mameli"

1924: Andrey Fyodorovich Arends dies

1927: FP of Jaromír Weinberger's "Švanda dudák / Schwanda the Bagpiper"

1933: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Sonate für Bratsche und Klavier"

1937: Manfred Schubert is born

1937: FP of Igor Fjodorowitsch Strawinski's "Jeu de Cartes / Card Game"

1939: FP of Lord Gerald Hugh Berners' "Cupid and Psyche"

1941: Friedrich Goldmann is born

1942: Emil George Konrad von Sauer dies

1950: Montgomery Rufus Karl Siegfried Straube dies

1957: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Prelude"

1959: FP of Germaine Tailleferre's "Nocturno - Fox"

1969: FP of Samuel Barber's "Despite and Still"

1971: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Kontraste II"

1974: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Čtyři písničky pro nejmenší / Four Songs for Little Children"

1977: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Violinkonzert Nr. 1 / Violin Concerto No. 1"

1979: FP of György Kurtág's "A kis csáva / The Little Predicament"

1984: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Suite für Klavier"

1991: Elinor Remick Warren dies

1992: Olivier Messiaen dies

1995: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Song of Grievous Light"

1999: Luting He dies

2001: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Antiphonal Memory"

2004: Ulrich Stranz dies

2005: FP of Ljudmila Jurina's "Angel of white day"

2007: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich dies