Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 May ?

1589: FP of Jacopo Peri's "La Pellegrina / The Pilgrim Woman"

1660: Alessandro Scarlatti is born

1707: Jean-Baptiste Barrière is born

1727: Giuseppe Jacchini dies

1742: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Cleonice (Demetrio)"

1750: Manuel Blasco de Nebra is born

1752: Ludwig August Lebrun is born

1754: Vicente Martín y Soler is born

1754: Vicente Martín y Soler is born

1755: Johann Ludwig Willing is born

1793: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Asgill (1· Fassung)"

1799: Henri-Joseph Rigel dies

1810: Hans Christian Lumbye is born

1818: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "La morte di Didone / The Death of Dido"

1843: Carl Michael Ziehrer is born

1846: Zygmunt Noskowski is born

1854: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Luc et Lucette"

1857: Frederic Cliffe is born

1862: Marie François Maurice Emmanuel is born

1864: Giacomo Meyerbeer dies

1865: Enric Morera i Viura is born

1888: Oskar Bolck dies

1901: Lotte Backes is born

1902: FP of Johann (Sohn) Strauss' "Aschenbrödel / Cinderella"

1905: Alan Rawsthorne is born

1906: Wilhelm Stollenwerk is born

1911: FP of Gustav Holst's "Invocation"

1913: Adolph Kölling dies

1915: Jan Hanuš is born

1921: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Il piccolo Marat"

1924: FP of Karl Weigl's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1925: Svatopluk Havelka is born

1925: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Měsíce / The Months"

1925: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Dvě písně na ruskou poezii / Two Songs on Russian Poetry"

1928: Horst Stein is born

1937: Arthur Somervell dies

1947: Philippe Herreweghe is born

1953: Valery Gergiev is born

1954: Elliot Goldenthal is born

1955: FP of Günter Bialas' "Romanzero"

1958: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Lady of Shalott"

1966: Otto Besch dies

1978: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Takes"

1981: FP of David Amram's "Violinkonzert / Violin Concerto"

1982: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester"

1989: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Kleine Messe"

1991: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Magnalia Dei"

1994: FP of Helmut Rogl's "ViolonChallenges"

2004: Mirko Dorner dies

2010: FP of Fabian Müller's "Suite Alpine"

2013: Gordon Sherwood dies

2024: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Streichtrio II"