Classical Calendar: What happened on 12 May ?

1703: Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer is born

1739: Johann Baptist Vanhal is born

1754: Franz Anton Hoffmeister is born

1755: Giovanni Battista Viotti is born

1772: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Il Barone di Rocca Antica"

1822: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "La zingara"

1824: Emile Steinkühler is born

1832: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore / The Elixir of Love"

1838: Hans Hiller dies

1842: Jules Massenet is born

1843: Johann Georg Lickl dies

1845: Gabriel Fauré is born

1846: FP of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann's "Liden Kirsten"

1861: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Ave Maria (II)"

1862: FP of Félicien-César David's "Lalla-Roukh"

1865: Eduardo di Capua is born

1867: Wilhelm Theodor Johann Braun dies

1880: Carl Mennicke is born

1884: Bedřich Smetana dies

1886: Hermann Grabner is born

1900: Bruno Henze is born

1903: Lennox Berkeley is born

1908: Melesio Morales dies

1917: FP of Béla Bartók's "A Fából Faragott Királyfi"

1919: Leo Grill dies

1919: FP of George Gershwin's "Something About Love"

1922: FP of Franz Lehár's "Frasquita"

1922: FP of Jean Sibelius' "Scaramouche"

1926: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Simfoniya N° 1 [Симфония № 1] / Symphony No. 1"

1930: Josef Štolba dies

1931: Eugène Ysaÿe dies

1932: FP of Samuel Barber's "Interlude I"

1937: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Bilder aus der Steiermark"

1937: FP of William Walton's "Crown Imperial"

1938: FP of Arthur Honegger's "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher"

1941: Vratislav Petr Černík is born

1942: Carl van Wyk is born

1948: Isidor Achron dies

1958: Joschi Schumann is born

1960: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs dies

1967: Julius Kalaš dies

1971: FP of Krzysztof Meyer's "Cyberiada / The Cyberiad"

1976: Rudolf Kempe dies

1976: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "The ring of bone"

1982: Humphrey Searle dies

1982: FP of Nicolae Bretan's "Arald"

1989: Marcelle de Manziarly dies

1990: Lotte Backes dies

1990: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "J. Strauß: Donauwalzer"

1990: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "S. Wonder: Isn't she lovely"

1990: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "H. Sokal: Hit Hat"

1992: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Desdemona und ihre Schwestern"

1995: Marcel Rubin dies

1995: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Von der Gewißheit des Augenblickes"

1995: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Huit Poésies de Mallarmé"

2002: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Ariadne"

2005: Miroslav Kokoška dies

2010: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Ein Fall für zwei"

2012: FP of Matthias Georg Kendlinger's "Kaiser, Wilder Kaiser"