Classical Calendar: What happened on 16 May ?

1781: Jacopo Puccini dies

1805: FP of Ferdinando Paër's "Sofonisba"

1829: FP of Vincenzo Bellini's "Zaira"

1834: FP of Eduard Brendler's "Ryno eller Den vandrande riddaren / Ryno, or the Knight Errant"

1851: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Zerline"

1854: Paul de Wailly is born

1857: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Vent du soir ou L'Horrible Festin"

1861: Frederikke Egeberg dies

1868: FP of Bedřich Smetana's "Dalibor"

1875: Vincas Bacevičius is born

1879: Régine Wieniawski is born

1880: Karl August Krebs dies

1882: FP of Richard Strauss' "Fünf Klavierstücke / Five Piano Pieces"

1891: Richard Tauber is born

1893: Paul Amadeus Pisk is born

1893: Ivan Wyschnegradsky is born

1897: Walther Geiser is born

1897: Paul Pabst dies

1908: Robert Goldbeck dies

1912: Helmut Riethmüller is born

1917: Fernand Halphen dies

1922: Otmar Suitner is born

1927: Paul Angerer is born

1929: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Schlittenfahrt"

1929: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Liegt ein Spielmann begraben"

1929: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Die Rose"

1929: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Mailied"

1930: Horst Ebenhöh is born

1930: Friedrich Gulda is born

1931: Donald Martino is born

1941: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Franz Liszt: Polonaise in E-Dur"

1946: Olav Anton Thommessen is born

1954: Betty Olivero is born

1954: Clemens Krauss dies

1955: Olli Kortegangas is born

1956: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Der 150. Psalm"

1959: Andrew Litton is born

1960: Hanuš Bartoň is born

1963: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

1963: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Laus Nocturna"

1971: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Owen Wingrave"

1972: Maxime Dumoulin dies

1974: FP of Leonard Bernstein's "Dybbuk"

1975: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Lasimaalaus"

1978: William Steinberg dies

1978: FP of Günter Bialas' "Assonanzen"

1981: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Six"

1981: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Soli"

1992: Chalino Sánchez dies

1992: FP of Barbara Heller's "Rondo (grafisches Kollektivkonzept für 5 bis 15 Instrumente ad lib.)"

2000: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Die Schritte"

2002: Joachim Blume dies

2003: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Suite für Orchester"

2004: Anny Roth-Dalbert dies

2004: FP of Paul Anton Wineberger's "Der Sieg des Lichts"

2010: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Ballade"

2014: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Elegie"