Classical Calendar: What happened on 6 May ?

1596: Giaches de Wert dies

1649: Cataldo Amodei is born

1667: Johann Jakob Froberger dies

1675: Girolamo Fantini dies

1696: Johann Daniel Hardt is born

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen"

1727: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Astianatte"

1794: Carl Arnold is born

1814: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst is born

1814: Georg Joseph Vogler dies

1818: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Orestes"

1821: Emilie Holmberg is born

1845: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Sabaudka / Savoyardess or the Mother's Blessing"

1857: FP of Franz Erkel's "Erzsébet"

1858: Georges Adolphe Hüe is born

1859: Ernst Hermann Seyffardt is born

1867: Johann Kaspar Aiblinger dies

1868: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Château à Toto"

1872: Giulio Regondi dies

1876: FP of Eduard Lassen's "Goethes Faust"

1882: Georgi Atanasov is born

1886: FP of Charles-Marie Widor's "Maître Ambros"

1890: Hubert Léonard dies

1892: Ernest Guiraud dies

1897: FP of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "La bohème"

1898: Walter Simon Huber is born

1898: Jascha Horenstein is born

1908: Necil Käzim Akses is born

1913: Gyula Dávid is born

1914: FP of Igor Fjodorowitsch Strawinski's "Solovya [Соловья] / The Nightingale"

1920: FP of Karl Weigl's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1923: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Vilsbiburger Liebfrauenfestspiel"

1928: FP of Franz Schubert's "Die Freunde von Salamanka"

1936: Hans Jelmoli dies

1945: Victoria Bond is born

1949: Qunihico Hashimoto dies

1953: Peter Child is born

1953: Ivan Fedele is born

1960: Paul Abraham dies

1960: Kamran Ince is born

1960: Yekaterina Chemberdzhi is born

1962: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "König Nicolo"

1969: FP of Martin Bjelik's "Septett"

1971: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Reliefs"

1974: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Plenum III"

1975: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Lyrische Suite"

1976: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Sinfonie"

1978: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Überstehen und Hoffen"

1988: FP of Jan Koetsier's "Trio romantico per viola, violoncello e pianoforte"

1994: FP of Olga Magidenko's "VioVoce"

1994: FP of Paul Patterson's "The Royal Eurostar"

1995: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Memento"

1999: FP of Magnus Lindberg's "Cellokonzert Nr. 1 / Cello Concerto No. 1"

2000: FP of Harald Weiss' "Reise in die Nacht"

2002: Murray Adaskin dies

2004: FP of Paul Patterson's "Harpomaniac"

2005: Hanno Haag dies