Classical Calendar: What happened on 6 July ?

1623: William Byrd dies

1657: Tobias Michael dies

1702: Nicolas Antoine Lebègue dies

1702: Franz Anton Maichelbeck is born

1706: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Endimione"

1732: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ"

1746: Giovan Battista Grazioli is born

1755: Pietro Paolo Bencini dies

1765: Gottlieb Heinrich Köhler is born

1768: Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen is born

1773: Wenzel Thomas Matiegka is born

1826: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Elvida"

1829: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Il castello di Kenilworth"

1837: Władysław Żeleński is born

1843: FP of Richard Wagner's "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel"

1845: Ángela Peralta de Castera is born

1851: FP of Robert Schumann's "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt / The Pilgrimage of the Rose"

1853: Ciprian Porumbescu is born

1858: Ida Henriette da Fonseca dies

1859: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Vivandières de la grande armée"

1864: Alberto Nepomuceno is born

1865: Émile Jacques-Dalcroze is born

1881: Nancy Dalberg is born

1882: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Freie Fantasie"

1882: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Interludium"

1894: Maria Francisca Hofer is born

1898: Hanns Eisler is born

1915: Marcel Quinet is born

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Yankee Doodle Blues"

1929: Gerd Zacher is born

1933: Robert Kajanus dies

1935: Edouard Garo is born

1937: Jan Welmers is born

1937: Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is born

1947: FP of Günter Bialas' "Trio"

1954: Anders Nilsson is born

1956: FP of Michael Tippett's "Four Songs from the British Isles"

1957: Henry Février dies

1971: Jesper Nordin is born

1973: Otto Klemperer dies

1974: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Surrexit Dominus"

1980: Frank Cordell dies

1991: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Ubu Rex"

1999: Joaquín Rodrigo dies

2000: Ludwig Rajter dies

2000: Władysław Szpilman dies

2001: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Schlagzeilen"

2002: István Sárközy dies

2002: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Musik für Streichorchester"

2020: Ennio Morricone dies