Classical Calendar: What happened on 1 May ?

1582: Marco da Gagliano is born

1635: Daniel Daniélis is born

1731: Johann Ludwig Bach dies

1739: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Giove in Argo"

1769: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "La finta semplice"

1772: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Il sogno di Scipione / Scipio's Dream"

1775: Sophia Giustina Dussek is born

1786: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro"

1806: Carl Cannabich dies

1815: FP of Luigi Cherubini's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1848: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Bajka"

1862: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Festkantate"

1863: FP of Léo Delibes' "Le Jardinier et son seigneur"

1872: Hugo Alfvén is born

1874: Vilém Blodek dies

1885: Brinley Richards dies

1886: Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl dies

1895: Leo Sowerby is born

1899: Jón Leifs is born

1899: FP of Paul Lincke's "Frau Luna"

1902: Joseph Rixner is born

1903: Luigi Arditi dies

1904: Antonín Dvořák dies

1909: George Melachrino is born

1912: Felipe Padilla de León is born

1912: FP of Gustav Holst's "Beni Mora"

1924: FP of Arrigo Boito's "Nerone"

1927: Gary Bertini is born

1937: Bo Nilsson is born

1939: Victor Davies is born

1939: David Loeb is born

1939: FP of Samuel Barber's "The Virgin Martyrs"

1943: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Variationen über ein Thema von Rossini"

1946: Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow dies

1946: Percy Whitlock dies

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Streichquartett Nr. 6 / String Quartet No. 6"

1959: Richard Dünser is born

1965: Leo Spies dies

1970: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Studien in Grau"

1977: Johannes Weyhrauch dies

1978: Aram Khachaturian dies

1978: Aram Khachaturian dies

1980: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1982: William Primrose dies

1983: FP of Biancamaria Furgeri's "Consonanze"

1992: FP of Philip Martin's "Anna Livia Plurabelle"

2013: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Fête de la Grenouille"