Classical Calendar: What happened on 23 May ?

1656: Andreas Rauch dies

1741: Andrea Luca Lucchesi is born

1794: Ignaz Moscheles is born

1794: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "L'Enfance de J. J. Rousseau"

1812: FP of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's "Der Zauberkampf oder Harlekin in seiner Heimat"

1814: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio"

1837: Józef Wieniawski is born

1848: Josef Pembaur is born

1851: Gustav Hecht is born

1866: Percy Sherwood is born

1871: Sigurd Lie is born

1877: Willy Prager is born

1885: Carl Baermann dies

1887: Ludvig Mathias Lindeman dies

1890: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Walzer für Pianoforte zu vier Händen"

1901: Edmund Charles Rubbra is born

1901: FP of Gustav Holst's "Ave Maria"

1906: Hellmuth Christian Wollf is born

1912: Jean Françaix is born

1920: FP of Gustav Holst's "Short Festival Te Deum"

1923: Heinrich Schmidt dies

1926: Hans von Kößler dies

1926: Wolfgang Marschner is born

1941: Slavko Osterc dies

1943: FP of Samuel Barber's "Commando March"

1945: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Phoenix - Homage to France, August 1944"

1947: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Poučení synovské"

1948: FP of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté's "Klavierkonzert II"

1952: Georg Schumann dies

1959: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Chowanschtschina"

1961: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Serenata serena für Blockflötenchor"

1967: Gregor Hübner is born

1971: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Der Besuch der alten Dame"

1973: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Fünf Gesänge für Sopran, Violine und Klavier"

1978: FP of Siegfried Köhler's "Streichquartett Nr. 1 / String Quartet No. 1"

1978: FP of Karl Weigl's "Old Vienna"

1980: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Rounds"

1982: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Marienmesse"

1983: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Quartet Movement"

1988: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Vierte Symphonie"

1991: Wilhelm Kempff dies

1998: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Capriccio"

1998: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Einsiedler"

1998: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Neckar"

2003: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Mit dritter nicht notwendiger Hand"

2008: FP of Hermann Seidl's "mysterium"