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1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ein ungefärbt Gemüte"

1756: Josef Martin Kraus is born

1770: FP of Antoine Dauvergne's "La Tour enchantée"

1787: Carl Friedrich Abel dies

1795: Florio Pietro Grassi dies

1816: FP of Pierre Louis Hus-Desforges' "Le Sacrifice d'Abraham"

1819: Jacques Offenbach is born

1823: Theodor von Schacht dies

1829: Fridolin Braungardt is born

1846: Riccardo Drigo is born

1887: Kurt Schwitters is born

1894: FP of Jules Massenet's "La Navarraise"

1896: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Adelheid von Burgund"

1899: Anthon van der Horst is born

1902: Caspar Joseph Brambach dies

1914: Friedrich Zipp is born

1922: Vittorio Monti dies

1924: FP of Darius Milhaud's "Le Train bleu / The Blue Train"

1928: Robert Satanowski is born

1931: Arne Nordheim is born

1934: Alain Bancquart is born

1934: Cornel Țăranu is born

1940: Jehan-Ariste Alain dies

1943: FP of Richard Strauss' "Wiener Fanfare"

1945: Gareth Loy is born

1947: Rainer Bischof is born

1947: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring"

1950: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Lachrymae"

1953: FP of William Walton's "Variations on an Elizabethan Theme"

1965: FP of Aribert Reimann's "Ein Traumspiel"

1969: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Die Teufel von Loudun"

1971: FP of Isang Yun's "Geisterliebe"

1980: Allan Pettersson dies

1980: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Capriccio für Tuba solo"

1989: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Dreizehn Charakterstücke"

1992: Sir Charles Groves dies

1998: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Des Meeres und der Flöten Wellen"

2001: Ernest Bour dies

2002: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Einatmen"

2005: FP of Peter Machajdík's "Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne"

2009: FP of Richard Strauss' "Aus der Kindheit"