Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 June ?

1672: Orazio Benevoli dies

1707: Gaspard le Roux dies

1710: FP of André Campra's "Les Fêtes vénitiennes"

1714: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"

1723: Johann Baptist Wendling is born

1771: Christian Gottlob August Bergt is born

1818: Charles François Gounod is born

1845: FP of Johann (Vater) Strauss' "Sommernachtsträume / Summer Night Dreams"

1855: Fritz Steinbach is born

1859: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Ojcze nasz"

1861: Sidney Jones is born

1866: Felix vom Rath is born

1866: Joseph Méry dies

1870: Jean-Baptiste Ganaye is born

1882: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky is born

1883: Alexandre Cellier is born

1893: Johann Schrammel dies

1895: Slavko Osterc is born

1900: Hermann Reutter is born

1902: Gustav Hinstein is born

1902: Carl Piutti dies

1902: Gustav Adolf Schlemm is born

1912: Don Gillis is born

1913: Ingeborg von Bronsart dies

1913: Ingeborg Starck dies

1916: Einar Englund is born

1919: Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya is born

1924: Edward Downes is born

1924: FP of Volkmar Andreae's "Abenteuer des Casanova"

1925: FP of Georges Auric's "Les Matelots"

1927: Martin Böttcher is born

1928: Torgrim Castberg dies

1930: Romuald Twardowski is born

1935: FP of Vítězslava Kaprálová's "Klavierkonzert / Piano Concerto"

1941: Johan Wagenaar dies

1944: Hermann Wenzel dies

1946: Gérard Grisey is born

1952: Alberto Williams dies

1953: Walter Niemann dies

1957: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1958: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Songs from the Chinese"

1959: FP of Samuel Barber's "A Hand of Bridge"

1961: FP of Waldemar Bloch's "Der Diener zweier Herren"

1968: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Second Suite for Cello"

1970: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Die Komödiantin"

1983: Peter Mennin dies

1984: Amir Teymuri is born

1985: Czesław Józef Marek dies

1987: FP of Günter Bialas' "Sechs Stücke und ein Marsch"

1992: Hillar Kareva dies

1992: FP of Philip Glass' "Concerto Grosso / Concerto grosso"

1992: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Sonata Nr. 2"

1993: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Nôéma"

2002: Francisco Escudero dies

2003: Emanuel Elenescu dies

2007: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Reflexionen für Orchester"

2023: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Concertino"