Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 July ?

1604: Heinrich Albert is born

1637: FP of Marco da Gagliano's "Le nozze degli Dei"

1710: Juan García de Salazar dies

1726: Antonio Maria Bononcini dies

1810: Johanna Kinkel is born

1865: Rita Strohl is born

1871: Clement Hugh Gilbert Harris is born

1882: Percy Grainger is born

1899: FP of Heinrich Zöllner's "Die versunkene Glocke"

1900: George Antheil is born

1900: FP of Richard Strauss' "Muttertändelei"

1905: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Edgar"

1922: Emmerich Smola is born

1932: Gustav Hecht dies

1941: Philippe Gaubert dies

1942: Shigeaki Saegusa is born

1944: Gerhard Rabe is born

1949: Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli dies

1953: Zhou Long is born

1953: FP of Sándor Veress' "Sonate für Orchester"

1957: Wolfgang Netzer is born

1960: Hanspeter Kyburz is born

1960: Werner Meyer-Eppler dies

1970: FP of Michael Tippett's "The Shires Suite"

1987: FP of Judith Weir's "A Night at the Chinese Opera"

1988: FP of Philip Glass' "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8"

1995: Günter Bialas dies

2000: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Duo für zwei Altsaxophonen"

2004: FP of Azio Corghi's "Pia"

2007: Jindrich Feld dies

2010: Bidzina Kvernadze dies

2018: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Ballade"