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1699: Johann Georg Conradi dies

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen"

1762: Georg Gottfried Müller is born

1795: Friedrich-Wilhelm Marpurg dies

1802: Joseph d'Ortigue is born

1813: Richard Wagner is born

1813: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "L'italiana in Algeri / The Italian Girl in Algiers"

1820: Alexander Ernst Fesca is born

1841: Eduard Caudella is born

1850: Johann Schrammel is born

1852: Émile Sauret is born

1860: FP of Eduard Lassen's "Frauenlob"

1872: FP of Georges Bizet's "Djamileh"

1874: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "Messa di Requiem"

1875: FP of Richard Wagner's "J. Strauß: Wein, Weib und Gesang"

1878: Franz von Holstein dies

1879: Jean Cras is born

1880: FP of Jules Massenet's "La Vierge"

1883: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Cantata per il monumento ad Alessandro Manzoni"

1885: Victor Hugo dies

1892: FP of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci / Players"

1895: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Begräbnis-Gesang"

1913: Nikita Bogoslovsky is born

1913: František Jílek is born

1916: Gordon Binkerd is born

1918: Friedrich Seitz dies

1920: FP of Gaston Singéry's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1924: Claude Ballif is born

1931: FP of Albert Roussel's "Bacchus et Ariane"

1938: Alain Gagnon is born

1939: Árni Egilsson is born

1942: Guy Bovet is born

1948: FP of Jean Françaix' "Les demoiselles de la nuit / The Ladies of the Night"

1949: Hans Pfitzner dies

1950: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Musik für Streichorchester"

1950: FP of Richard Strauss' "Frühling"

1950: FP of Richard Strauss' "September"

1950: FP of Richard Strauss' "Beim Schlafengehen"

1950: FP of Richard Strauss' "Im Abendrot"

1960: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Der Mann im Mond"

1960: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Der Prinz von Homburg"

1966: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Partita in honorem J. S. Bach"

1967: Langston Hughes dies

1971: Hans Franke dies

1972: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Counting your Steps"

1973: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Kammersinfonie II"

1977: Marius Monnikendam dies

1978: Václav Dobiáš dies

1980: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Sonatine für Klarinette solo"

1980: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "14 Epigramme für 3 Posaunen"

1980: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Trio"

1982: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Kassandra"

1995: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Les contours de la lumière des jadis"

2003: FP of Arvo Pärt's "In principio"

2003: FP of Errollyn Wallen's "The Queen and I"

2005: FP of Fabian Müller's "Balada y Bulerias"

2011: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Saiten des Herzens"

2013: Henri Dutilleux dies

2017: Josef Peter Heinzer dies

2021: Maria Sehrig dies