Classical Calendar: What happened on 1 August ?

1675: William Williams is born

1715: Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar dies

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgend ein Schmerz sei"

1775: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Cythère assiégée"

1821: FP of Victor Dourlen's "La Vente après décès"

1829: FP of Hector Berlioz' "La Mort de Cléopâtre"

1848: František Kmoch is born

1857: Emilie Zumsteeg dies

1858: Hans Rott is born

1899: William Steinberg is born

1907: Hisato Ohzawa is born

1908: Miroslav Kabeláč is born

1911: Marianne Stoll is born

1913: Jerome Moross is born

1919: Sandro Blumenthal dies

1923: Theophil Forchhammer dies

1927: Raymond Leppard is born

1931: Rostislav Boiko is born

1932: Erkegali Rakhmadiev is born

1936: FP of Richard Strauss' "Olympische Hymne"

1954: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Suite en valse / Waltz Suite"

1954: FP of Michael Tippett's "Four Inventions"

1971: FP of Isang Yun's "Sim Tjong"

1973: Gian Francesco Malipiero dies

1984: Paul le Flem dies

1992: FP of Philippe Hersant's "Le Chateau des Carpathes"

1998: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Uno"

2011: FP of Veronica Anghelescu's "Wonderbird"