Classical Calendar: What happened on 4 May ?

1604: Claudio Merulo dies

1672: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières dies

1744: Marianna von Martines is born

1795: FP of Joseph Haydn's "Berenice que fai"

1805: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann is born

1860: Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek is born

1867: Dynam-Victor Fumet is born

1872: FP of Alexis de Castillon's "Sonate pour piano et violon"

1885: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Il Ritorno del Marinaio"

1899: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Ad Adelaide Cairoli"

1904: León Zuckert is born

1905: Mátyás Seiber is born

1909: FP of Gustav Holst's "A Song of London"

1909: FP of Gustav Holst's "O England My Country"

1909: FP of Gustav Holst's "Incidental Music to the Stepney Children's Pageant"

1924: Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva is born

1927: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Introit"

1931: Gennady Rozhdestvensky is born

1935: FP of Ildebrando Pizzetti's "Orseolo"

1937: Hans Ulrich Lehmann is born

1941: Heinrich Zöllner dies

1943: Wilhelm Middelschulte dies

1948: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Sechs Lieder für Sopran und Klavier"

1955: George Enescu dies

1959: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Berauschet Euch"

1961: FP of Per Hjort Albertsen's "Concerto piccolo"

1965: Seppo Pohjola is born

1968: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Capriccio per Siegfried Palm"

1971: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Who Are These Children?"

1971: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Anerca"

1973: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Tiergeschichten für Klavier"

1974: FP of Einojuhani Rautavaara's "Dances with the Winds"

1996: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Vábnička"

1996: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Blow Out"

1998: Johannes Driessler dies

2000: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Hommage à Olivier Messiaen"

2003: FP of Manfred Gurlitt's "Nordische Ballade"

2014: FP of Michael Em Walter's "Trio für Tuba, Schlagwerk und Klavier"

2016: Ursula Mamlok dies