Classical Calendar: What happened on 28 May ?

1710: Thomas Augustine Arne is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten"

1759: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Le diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphose / The Devil to Pay"

1773: FP of Anton Schweitzer's "Alceste"

1779: Thomas Moore is born

1780: Franz Joseph Fröhlich is born

1787: Leopold Mozart dies

1791: Joseph Schmitt dies

1793: Juan de Aragüés dies

1795: FP of Vicente Martín y Soler's "Le nozze de'contadini spagnuoli"

1799: Ernst Köhler is born

1805: Luigi Boccherini dies

1818: Maxime Alkan is born

1836: Anton Reicha dies

1841: Giovanni Sgambati is born

1847: Emanuel Faltis is born

1860: Axel Gade is born

1863: FP of Alexander Nikolajewitsch Serow's "Yudif [Юдифь] / Judith"

1883: George Dyson is born

1883: Václav Talich is born

1889: José Padilla Sánchez is born

1890: Victor Nessler dies

1893: Felipe Villanueva dies

1896: Marius Monnikendam is born

1903: Walter Goehr is born

1903: Marguerite Monnot is born

1920: FP of Franz Lehár's "Die blaue Mazur"

1922: FP of Alexander von Zemlinsky's "Der Zwerg oder Der Geburtstag der Infantin / Le nain"

1923: György Ligeti is born

1923: Jiří Válek is born

1924: Mikhaïl Nosyrev is born

1927: Bernhard Lewkovitch is born

1928: FP of Gustav Holst's "The Coming of Christ"

1929: Byong Kong Kim is born

1931: Peter Westergaard is born

1934: FP of Henri Rabaud's "Rolande et le mauvais garçon"

1936: Maki Ishii is born

1936: FP of George Gershwin's "King Of Swing"

1938: FP of Günter Bialas' "Trio"

1940: Theodor Streicher dies

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

1952: Joseph Lauber dies

1957: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Legenda z dýmu bramborové nati / Legend of the Smoke from Potato Fires"

1960: FP of Günter Bialas' "Sinfonia piccola"

1963: Wissarion Schebalin dies

1964: Sherif Mohie El Din is born

1971: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Utrenja II"

1973: Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt dies

1981: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Echoes"

1990: Ada Richter dies

2007: FP of Michael Denhoff's "Inventionen I-XII"

2012: Dieter Schönbach dies

2015: Steven Gerber dies

2017: FP of Franz Xaver Frenzel's "De Rerum Natura - Über die Natur der Dinge"