Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 July ?

1591: Vincenzo Galilei dies

1663: Thomas Selle dies

1714: Christoph Willibald Gluck is born

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Meine Seel erhebt den Herren"

1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies

1794: František Xaver Pokorný dies

1814: Thérèse Wartel is born

1814: FP of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's "Das Zauberschloss oder Das aufgelöste Rätsel"

1823: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Alfredo il Grande"

1842: Ernst Fabritius is born

1844: Carl Blum dies

1859: Josef Otto af Sillén is born

1862: Carl Mayer dies

1865: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Geistliches Lied"

1878: François Bazin dies

1878: FP of Kitty von Escherich's "Scherzo f-Moll"

1895: Franz Kinzl is born

1904: Prosper Stephanus Joannes van Eechaute is born

1904: Prosper Stefaan Jan Van Eechaute is born

1911: Felix Mottl dies

1926: Meyer Kupferman is born

1927: Louise Adolpha Le Beau dies

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Show Girl"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Do What You Do!"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Feeling Sentimental"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Harlem Serenade"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "I Must Be Home By Twelve O'Clock"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Liza"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "So Are You (The Rose Is Red - Violets Are Blue)"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Black And White"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Follow The Minstrel Band"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Happy Birthday"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Home Blues"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "How Could I Forget"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "Lolita"

1929: FP of George Gershwin's "My Sunday Fella"

1941: FP of Philippe Gaubert's "Le Chevalier et la Damoiselle"

1945: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Earth and Air and Rain: When I set out for Lyonnesse"

1945: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Earth and Air and Rain: The Phantom"

1945: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Earth and Air and Rain: So I have fared"

1945: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Earth and Air and Rain: To Lizbie Browne"

1945: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Earth and Air and Rain: In a churchyard"

1948: Sylvain Cambreling is born

1952: Henriette Hilda Bosmans dies

1952: Miklós Sugár is born

1952: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Zwei Lieder / Two Songs"

1956: Wolfgang Lindner is born

1963: Tobias Peter Maria Schneid is born

1967: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Improvisation für vier Holzbläser"

1968: Hanns Wolf dies

1971: FP of Kurt Weill's "Recordare"

1974: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Quintett für Oboe und Streichquartett"

1976: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Go, said the bird..."

1977: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Lamento für zwei Flöten"

1982: Poul Rovsing Olsen dies

1986: FP of Barbara Heller's "Tagebuchblätter"

1988: Richard Klemm dies

1995: Zdenek Košler dies

2000: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Hommage à J. S. Bach"

2000: FP of Paul Patterson's "Little Red Riding Hood Song Book"

2000: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Mania"

2002: Earle Brown dies

2002: Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur dies

2002: FP of Matthias Bonitz' "Siddhartha"

2003: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Essai sur l'accord prométhéen pour alto seul et orchestre à cordes"

2006: FP of Josef Martin Kraus' "Aeneas in Karthago"

2019: Michael Colgrass dies

2020: Nikolai Kapustin dies