Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 August ?

1445: Oswald von Wolkenstein dies

1632: Kaspar von Stieler is born

1708: FP of Antonio Caldara's "Il più bel nome"

1815: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Non paventar mia vita / Sei tu sempre"

1823: Charles Alwens is born

1828: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Gianni di Calais"

1846: Horace Mansion is born

1858: Catharina van Rennes is born

1887: Fritz Jöde is born

1891: Arthur Bliss is born

1900: Josep Maria Ruera is born

1900: Franz Marszalek is born

1902: Rudolf Bibl dies

1905: Karl Amadeus Hartmann is born

1914: Gabriel Dupont dies

1916: Hamish MacCunn dies

1932: Martin David Levy is born

1936: Anthony Payne is born

1937: Juan Fiege is born

1944: Joseph Bonnet dies

1945: Pietro Mascagni dies

1945: Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek dies

1971: Richard Maux dies

1972: Rudolf Ganz dies

1978: Carlos Chávez dies

1980: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Pollicino"

1988: Roger Vuataz dies

1992: FP of John Palmer's "you"

1994: FP of Günter Bialas' "Trauermusik"

1995: Irwin Bazelon dies

1997: Paul Kurzbach dies

2003: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe"