Classical Calendar: What happened on 24 May ?

1582: Giovan Battista Fergusio is born

1767: Joseph Ignaz Schnabel is born

1771: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "Adamo ed Eva"

1773: Jan Zach dies

1781: Louis-François Dauprat is born

1797: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "La Leçon"

1803: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Violinsonate Nr. 9 / Violin Sonata No. 9"

1826: Friedrich Ernst Fesca dies

1829: FP of Friedrich Wilhelm Grund's "Kantate zur dritten Säkularfeier des Hamburgischen Johanneums"

1834: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Lestocq"

1848: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff dies

1873: FP of Léo Delibes' "Le Roi l'a dit"

1886: Paul Paray is born

1896: Johan Hye-Knudsen is born

1898: FP of Ethel Smyth's "Fantasio"

1899: Eduard Hamel dies

1899: FP of Jules Massenet's "Cendrillon"

1910: Nils-Eric Foughstedt is born

1911: FP of Granville Bantock's "Dante and Beatrice"

1918: FP of Béla Bartók's "A Kékszakállú herceg vára / Duke Bluebeard's Castle"

1920: Gustav Lazarus dies

1925: Robert Saar is born

1926: FP of Gustav Holst's "The Golden Goose"

1938: FP of Gustav Holst's "O Spiritual Pilgrim"

1941: Konrad Boehmer is born

1943: James Levine is born

1952: Slavko Šuklar is born

1953: Allan Gordon Bell is born

1956: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Ich wollt' gern singen"

1959: Stefan Heucke is born

1962: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Prooemion (2. Fassung)"

1963: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Saitenspiel"

1966: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Closer"

1968: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Prayer to the Infant Jesus"

1971: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Preghiere"

1974: Duke Ellington dies

1978: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Cellokonzert / Cello Concerto"

1988: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Rosen"

1990: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Lichtgesänge/Dunkelklänge"

1990: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Die Glocken"

1998: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Flötenquartett / Flute Quartet"

1998: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Was ihr wollt"

1999: Donald Young Sur dies

2003: Edvard Boguslawski dies

2005: FP of Ada Gentile's "Monodia"

2014: FP of Matthias Georg Kendlinger's "Larissa"