Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 May ?

1694: Johann Michael (I) Bach dies

1732: Francesco Pasquale Ricci is born

1753: Johann Holzer is born

1755: Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis is born

1765: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "Zophilette"

1843: Gustave Sandré is born

1847: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel dies

1851: Victor Bendix is born

1860: August Stradal is born

1864: John W. Boone is born

1865: Martin Jacobi is born

1866: Adolph Bernhard Marx dies

1866: Erik Satie is born

1867: Stanley Hawley is born

1867: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Strykekvintett / String Quintet"

1881: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Wergeland-kantate / Wergeland Cantata"

1890: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"

1900: Werner Bochmann is born

1901: Werner Egk is born

1908: Jacques Blumenthal dies

1908: Sigismund Toduţă is born

1919: Johann Peter Gotthard dies

1919: Johann Peter Gotthard Pázdirek dies

1921: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Skazka pro shuta [Сказка про шута] / The Tale of the Buffoon"

1923: Peter Mennin is born

1923: FP of Gustav Holst's "A Fugal Concerto"

1935: Paul Dukas dies

1936: Philippe Boesmans is born

1939: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Aleksandr Nevskiy [Александр Невский] / Alexander Nevsky"

1942: Alfred Hollins dies

1943: Joanna Bruzdowicz is born

1948: Henry Fourès is born

1950: Algirdas Martinaitis is born

1951: Paul Amrod is born

1951: Karl Heinrich David dies

1957: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Wolkenkantate"

1959: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Mirandolina"

1962: Dieter Amman is born

1971: Jason Eckardt is born

1971: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer"

1974: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Reifliches Divertimento"

1980: FP of Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin's "Chayka [Чайка] / The Seagull"

1982: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Solosonate für Viola"

1988: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Triosonate für Flöte, Trompete und Orgel"

1992: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Veet välkkyy taas"

1998: Günter Bergmann dies

1998: FP of Günter Bergmann's "Harmonice Mundi Iovis"

2003: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Sonate de concert"

2004: FP of Fabian Müller's "Suite für Violoncello und Streichorchester"

2013: Harold Shapero dies

2018: Rainer Dimmler dies