Classical Calendar: What happened on 20 May ?

1714: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Erschallet, ihr Lieder"

1721: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "L'odio e l'amore"

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten"

1751: Domingo Terradellas dies

1787: Giovanni Gualberto Brunetti dies

1836: Hélène de Montgeroult dies

1852: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Betty"

1852: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Cyganie / The Gypsies"

1854: FP of Ernest Reyer's "Maître Wolfram"

1856: Helen Hopekirk is born

1874: FP of Franz Erkel's "Brankovics György"

1893: FP of Antonio Smareglia's "Cornill Schut"

1896: Clara Schumann dies

1896: Clara Wieck-Schumann dies

1897: FP of Marguerite Balutet's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1904: FP of Gustav Holst's "Suite de Ballet"

1915: Gertraud Kaltenecker is born

1930: FP of Adrien Raynal's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1940: Karl Anton Rickenbacher is born

1946: Daniel Binelli is born

1946: Emil Frey dies

1946: Mikhail Kokzhayev is born

1952: FP of Gerald Finzi's "God is gone up"

1961: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers"

1963: Johan Cornelis Berghout dies

1966: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Sonate für Oboe und Klavier / Sonata for Oboe and Piano"

1976: FP of Andrei Jakowlewitsch Eschpai's "Angara"

1978: Bjarne Brustad dies

1984: FP of Philip Martin's "Four E. A. Robinson songs"

1984: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Till Eulenspiegel"

1986: FP of Helmut Rogl's "In Memoriam Sir Vincent Scott"

1986: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Mistress Barbara's favourite waltz"

1988: René Defossez dies

1991: FP of Annette Schlünz' "verschattet"

1998: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Zarte Knöpfe"

2000: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Amers"

2000: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Omaggio"

2004: FP of Gordon Kampe's "High Noon: Moskitos"

2006: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Traits - lointain"

2006: FP of Fabian Müller's "Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier Nr. 1"

2007: Carlos Riesco Grez dies

2010: FP of Veronica Anghelescu's "The Gesture"

2013: Anders Eliasson dies

2018: Dieter Schnebel dies