Classical Calendar: What happened on 25 May ?

1572: Moritz von Hessen-Kassel is born

1726: Giuseppe Paolucci is born

1767: Friedrich Eck is born

1815: Domenico Vincenzo Maria Puccini dies

1816: FP of Victor Dourlen's "Plus heureux que sage"

1826: Christian Friedrich Ruppe dies

1832: FP of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Capriccio brillant"

1837: Johann Evangelist Brandl dies

1849: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Rolands Knappen"

1870: FP of Léo Delibes' "Coppélia ou La Fille aux yeux d'émail"

1873: Archibald Joyce is born

1888: Anatoly Alexandrov is born

1889: Sverre Jordan is born

1897: FP of Gustav Holst's "Light Leaves Whisper"

1897: FP of Arthur Sullivan's "Victoria and Merrie England"

1900: FP of Wilhelm Berger's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1902: Helvi Leiviskä is born

1904: Kurt Thomas is born

1911: FP of Richard Wagner's "Der Tag erscheint"

1912: Albrecht Rosenstengel is born

1914: Paolo Giorza dies

1925: Aldo Clementi is born

1928: Frigyes Hidas is born

1934: Gustav Holst dies

1936: Ján Levoslav Bella dies

1938: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Sonate für Flöte und Klavier"

1950: Enjott Schneider is born

1962: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Beatitudes"

1964: Vasilii Zolotarev dies

1964: Caspar Johannes Walter is born

1964: FP of Malcolm Arnold's "Quintet for Brass / Brass Quintet No. 1"

1965: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Medusa"

1965: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Cellokonzert Nr. 2 / Cello Concerto No. 2"

1966: Ricardo Castillo dies

1977: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Streichquartett Nr. 4 / String Quartet No. 4"

1977: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Streichquartett Nr. 5 / String Quartet No. 5"

1979: Friedrich Metzler dies

2000: FP of Raimund Schwedeler's "Symphonie Nr. 6 / Symphony No. 6"

2002: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Die Sehnsucht nach der verlorenen Melodie"

2005: Dennis Eberhard dies

2005: FP of Peter Machajdík's "Dem Regenbogen wieder so nah"

2006: Otto Matthäus Zykan dies

2010: Robert Muczynski dies