Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 June ?

1673: Antonio de Literes is born

1677: Antonio Maria Bononcini is born

1713: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "La vittoria navale"

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein"

1726: Michel-Richard Delalande dies

1757: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel is born

1799: Johann André dies

1808: Filippo Maria Gherardeschi dies

1812: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "An eine Freundin"

1821: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Der Freischütz / The Marksman"

1831: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "La romanzesca e l'uomo nero"

1836: Louise Haenel de Cronenthal is born

1842: Tobias Haslinger dies

1843: David Popper is born

1850: Richard Heuberger is born

1856: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Dragées du baptême"

1894: Sabin Dragoi is born

1896: George Thomas Thalben-Ball is born

1903: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Ständchen"

1903: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Liebesflämmchen"

1903: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Schöne Nacht"

1903: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Die Prinzessin"

1904: Manuel Rosenthal is born

1905: Eduard Tubin is born

1915: Victor Legley is born

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "George White's Scandals of 1923"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Let's Be Lonesome Together"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Lo-La-Lo"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "On The Beach At How've-You-Been"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "The Life Of A Rose"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "There Is Nothing Too Good For You"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Throw Her In High!"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Where Is She?"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "You And I (In Old Versailles)"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Katinka"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Laugh Your Cares Away"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Little Scandal Doll"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "Look In The Looking Glass"

1927: Simeon Pironkoff is born

1930: Gabrielle von Neumann Spallart dies

1933: Paul de Wailly dies

1934: Pavle Dešpalj is born

1935: August Reuß dies

1939: FP of Günter Bialas' "Bolkenhainer Burgmusik"

1942: Paul McCartney is born

1942: Hans Vonk is born

1944: Paul Lansky is born

1945: Shirish Korde is born

1947: Georgs Pelēcis is born

1947: FP of Günter Bialas' "Sonate / Sonata"

1950: Frank Ferko is born

1955: Willy Burkhard dies

1956: Stefano Scodanibbio is born

1958: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Noye's Fludde"

1959: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Mikeš z hor / Mikeš of the Mountains"

1961: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Von der Liebe"

1964: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Cadenzas to Haydn's Cello Concerto in C (Hoboken VII b. I)"

1965: George Melachrino dies

1969: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Five Spiritual Songs - Geistliche Lieder - (J. S. Bach)"

1977: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "The Martyrdom of St. Magnus"

1986: FP of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cricket"

1993: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Concertante"

1994: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Raumklänge-Klangbilder"

1994: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Klangraum Interaktiv"

1999: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Gotisch"

1999: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Blues"

2010: José Saramago dies

2011: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Spanisch"

2023: Cornel Țăranu dies