Classical Calendar: What happened on 15 May ?

1567: Claudio Monteverdi is born

1577: Sulpitia Cesis is born

1759: Maria Theresia von Paradis is born

1763: Franz Danzi is born

1786: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Nina"

1795: Adolph Bernhard Marx is born

1801: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Min Bedstemoder"

1808: Michael William Balfe is born

1808: Gottfried Herrmann is born

1809: Jean-Baptiste-Philémon de Cuvillon is born

1813: Stephen Heller is born

1818: Maddalena Laura Lombardini dies

1818: Maddalena Laura Sirmen dies

1822: Christian Ludwig Dietter dies

1823: Anton Felix Beczwarzowsky dies

1832: Karl Friedrich Zelter dies

1854: Paul Pabst is born

1870: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Mitternacht"

1873: Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin is born

1884: Samuel de Lange (sr.) dies

1905: Adolf Schulz-Evler dies

1908: Lars-Erik Larsson is born

1912: Arthur Victor Berger is born

1913: FP of Claude Debussy's "Jeux / Games"

1914: FP of Henri Rabaud's "Mârouf, savetier du Caire"

1920: FP of Igor Fjodorowitsch Strawinski's "Pulcinella"

1925: Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai is born

1929: FP of Jacques Ibert's "Persée et Andromède ou le Plus heureux des trois / Perseus and Andromeda"

1929: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Phantastisches Tanzspiel"

1931: FP of Gian Francesco Malipiero's "Torneo notturno"

1934: Émile Ratez dies

1936: Jean Balissat is born

1936: David Finko is born

1939: Percy Sherwood dies

1941: Richard Edward Wilson is born

1943: Ralph Erwin dies

1945: Kenneth Alford dies

1947: Renaud Gagneux is born

1952: Italo Montemezzi dies

1959: Max d'Ollone dies

1964: Ilio Volante is born

1964: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Lieder aus Wien"

1966: FP of Grażyna Bacewicz' "Streichquartett Nr. 7 / String Quartet No. 7"

1969: FP of Giselher Klebe's "Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie"

1972: FP of George Rochberg's "String Quartet No. 3"

1975: Antonio Pedrotti dies

1975: FP of Günter Bialas' "Der gestiefelte Kater"

1976: David Munrow dies

1977: Bernd Richard Deutsch is born

1977: FP of Zsolt Durkó's "Mózes"

1982: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Traumtanz"

1984: FP of Malcolm Arnold's "Two Bagatelles"

1987: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Orchesterstücke"

1994: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Capriccio für 2 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen"

1994: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Improvisation"

1995: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Čtyři skrývačky pro Grahama / Four Enigmas for Graham"

1998: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Ich rief"

1998: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Voicelessness"

2000: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Nachtlieder für Sopran und Streichquartett"

2000: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Nachtlieder"

2004: Marius Constant dies

2004: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Quatuor avec piano / Piano Quartet"

2011: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Keine Sorgen Fantasie"

2015: Michael Braunfels dies

2016: Bernard van Beurden dies

2020: Herbert Blendinger dies