Classical Calendar: What happened on 5 May ?

1666: Johann Heinrich Buttstett is born

1680: Giuseppe Porsile is born

1705: Leopold I. dies

1708: Johann Adolph Scheibe is born

1749: Jean-Frédéric Edelmann is born

1755: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "La danza"

1765: August Friedrich Graun dies

1785: Franz Xaver Schnizer dies

1807: P. D. Q. Bach dies

1812: FP of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's "Dies Haus ist zu verkaufen"

1813: Stepan Degtyarev dies

1819: Stanislav Moniuszko is born

1819: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Donna Diana"

1824: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Le Concert à la cour"

1840: FP of Friedrich Wilhelm Grund's "Kantate zur Einweihung der neuen hamburgischen Gymnasial-, Schul- und Bibliothek-Gebäude"

1848: Adalbert von Goldschmidt is born

1854: Antonio Smareglia is born

1869: Hans Pfitzner is born

1881: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Come noi che siam bambini"

1885: Agustín Barrios Mangoré is born

1885: Lauro Rossi dies

1891: Albert Rudolph Fäsy dies

1894: Gertrud Schweizer is born

1897: FP of Léon Boëllmann's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1900: Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt is born

1905: Ernst Pauer dies

1906: Waldemar Bloch is born

1907: Yoritsune Matsudaira is born

1909: FP of Eduard Künneke's "Robins Ende"

1909: FP of Jules Massenet's "Bacchus"

1916: Veli Mukhatov is born

1928: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Voják a tanečnice"

1928: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Liederserenade"

1930: FP of Samuel Barber's "Serenade for string orchestra"

1930: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Cinq Pièces brèves / Five Short Pieces"

1930: FP of Darius Milhaud's "Christophe Colomb / Christopherus Columbus"

1932: Mark Ermler is born

1936: Patrick Gowers is born

1941: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Paul Bunyan"

1945: FP of Samuel Barber's "Nocturne"

1945: FP of Samuel Barber's "Monks and Raisins"

1946: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Obrucheniye v monastyrye [Обручение в монастыре] / Betrothal in a Monastery"

1951: FP of Günter Bialas' "Heptameron"

1952: Maia Ciobanu is born

1952: Rudolf Sieczyński dies

1957: Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin dies

1960: FP of Lukas Foss' "Introductions and Goodbyes"

1961: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Blockflötentrios für Anfänger"

1974: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "The winter of the world"

1975: Gerald Resch is born

1981: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Medea"

1985: FP of Judith Weir's "The Consolations of Scholarship"

1990: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Das verratene Meer"

1993: FP of Ljudmila Jurina's "Ran - nan"

1995: FP of Tilo Medek's "Tangoverstrickung"

1996: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Kolme hurjaa kappaletta lapsijousille"

1998: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Ilo ja epäsymmetria"

2000: Vitaly Gubarenko dies

2001: FP of Erkki-Sven Tüür's "Wallenberg"

2004: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Konzert für 2 Violoncelli und Orchester"

2006: Štĕpán Lucký dies

2012: FP of Michael Em Walter's "Gesangsstück"

2013: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Symphonische Miniaturen"