Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 May ?

1684: Henri du Mont dies

1742: Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz is born

1747: FP of Giovanni Battista Sammartini's "La gara del genio germanico con il genio d'Italia"

1773: FP of Pierre Vachon's "Sara ou La Fermière écossaise"

1817: FP of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's "Lo sbaglio fortunato"

1820: Ernst Otto Toller is born

1829: Mauro Giuliani dies

1844: Hermann Grädener is born

1849: Marco Aurelio Marliani dies

1875: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer"

1893: Charles Williams is born

1894: FP of Jules Massenet's "Le Portrait de Manon"

1895: FP of Isaac Albéniz' "Henry Clifford"

1901: Ernst Schiffmann is born

1919: Philipp Wolfrum dies

1929: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Pastorale: Lie Strewn the White Flocks"

1930: Henning Mankell dies

1933: Albert Markov is born

1934: Jan Paul Nagel is born

1935: Marcel Noel dies

1936: Henning Frederichs is born

1945: Keith Jarrett is born

1950: Lepo Sumera is born

1951: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Konzert für Klavier und Orchester"

1955: Denys Bouliane is born

1955: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 / Piano Concerto No. 5"

1960: Hugo Alfvén dies

1965: Thierry Escaich is born

1973: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Streichquartett Nr. 3 / String Quartet No. 3"

1976: Valentino Bucchi dies

1979: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Concerto für Alt-Saxophon und zwölf Spieler"

1985: Karl Marx dies

1989: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Come un sviluppo ... stracci"

1990: Luigi Nono dies

1990: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Aisthanómenon"

1991: Jean Langlais dies

1994: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Saxophonenquartett"

1998: FP of Erich Urbanner's "... apropos Orgelpunkt"

2000: Karl-Rudi Griesbach dies

2004: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "La voix claire"

2008: FP of Altug Ünlü's "Constructions poétiques"

2009: FP of Ada Gentile's "Notti di gatto"