Classical Calendar: What happened on 19 May ?

1601: Costanzo Porta dies

1746: John Frederick Peter is born

1765: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Iphigénie"

1785: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Le Corsaire (2. Fassung)"

1786: John Stanley dies

1810: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Jery und Bätely"

1827: FP of Michele Carafa's "Sangarido"

1839: Alice Mary Smith is born

1842: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix"

1872: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Messe / Mass"

1878: Adam Carse is born

1884: Arthur Meulemans is born

1897: Enrico Mainardi is born

1912: Alphonse Hasselmans dies

1914: Carlo Maria Giulini is born

1919: Mircea Chiriac is born

1926: Paul Cooper is born

1930: Hans Kox is born

1932: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Gamlet [Гамлет]"

1933: Antón García Abril is born

1935: Charles Martin Loeffler dies

1937: FP of Alfredo Casella's "Il deserto tentato"

1937: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Orchestersuite Nr. 1 „Aus der Jugendzeit“"

1939: Tomasz Sikorski is born

1940: František Gregor Emmert is born

1950: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Suite für Klavier"

1954: Charles Ives dies

1958: Bruno Stürmer dies

1958: FP of Giselher Klebe's "Cellokonzert Nr. 1 / Cello Concerto No. 1"

1959: Rolf Thomas Lorenz is born

1960: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Tobias and the Angel"

1963: Jörg Birkenkötter is born

1964: Yassen Vodenitcharov is born

1967: FP of Alberto Evaristo Ginastera's "Bomarzo"

1969: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Children's Crusade"

1971: Bernard Wagenaar dies

1977: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Royal Offering"

1978: Alfred Maria Berghorn dies

1979: David van de Woestijne dies

1985: Hilding Rosenberg dies

1991: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "Der Wald"

1992: Hans Vogt dies

1993: Todor Stoykov dies

1998: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Auf der Suche nach..."

2004: FP of Adriana Hölszky's "Der gute Gott von Manhattan"

2007: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Nen VII"

2009: Nicholas Maw dies

2019: Alfred Janson dies