Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 July ?

1709: Pascal Collasse dies

1763: Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck dies

1794: Jean-Frédéric Edelmann dies

1798: Johann Georg Lang dies

1804: Christian Ernst Graf dies

1823: Theodor Elze is born

1832: August Söderman is born

1839: Friedrich Gernsheim is born

1843: FP of Friedrich Burgmüller's "La Péri"

1846: Sophie Menter is born

1852: Salvatore Cammarano dies

1855: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Auf, Brüder, auf! Und die Saiten zur Hand"

1868: Louis-François Dauprat dies

1874: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Niklaus von der Flüe"

1875: Donald Francis Tovey is born

1876: Vittorio Gnecchi is born

1906: Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker dies

1908: Rudolf Petzold is born

1909: Ignace Strasfogel is born

1911: Alfred Maria Berghorn is born

1913: Everett Helm is born

1929: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

1930: Ryōhei Hirose is born

1932: Niccolò Castiglioni is born

1932: Wojciech Kilar is born

1935: Peter Schickele is born

1937: Gabriel Pierné dies

1939: Pierre Vellones dies

1940: Guilherme Bauer is born

1942: Ivan Anguélov is born

1943: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Vom Abend bis zum Morgen"

1945: Carlos Miranda is born

1945: Aleksei Rybnikov is born

1952: Donal Fox is born

1968: Hans Lang dies

1973: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Bel canto"

1975: FP of Aulis Sallinen's "Ratsumies / The Horseman"

1984: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Vermutungen über Lotti"

1987: FP of Günter Bialas' "Lamento, vier Intermezzi und Marsch"

1987: FP of Günter Bialas' "Mürßls Gespinste"

1995: Rainer Kunad dies

1996: FP of Fabian Müller's "Suite Vaudoise"

1998: Lamberto Gardelli dies

1999: Max Baumann dies

2004: FP of Fabian Müller's "Fünf Intermezzi für Alt-Saxophon solo"