Classical Calendar: What happened on 3 August ?

1623: Pietro Antonio Cesti is born

1664: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Entr' actes d'Oedipe"

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft"

1727: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ihr Häuser des Himmels, ihr scheinenden Lichter"

1735: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten"

1778: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Pafio e Mirra ossia I prigionieri di Cipro"

1778: FP of Antonio Salieri's "L'Europa riconosciuta"

1784: Giovanni Battista Martini dies

1800: Carl Fasch dies

1829: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Guillaume Tell / William Tell"

1832: Étienne Rey is born

1832: Ivan Zajc is born

1854: Fernand La Tombelle is born

1878: Constantino Gaito is born

1884: Louis Gruenberg is born

1885: Siegfried Salomon is born

1889: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Aus der Jugendzeit"

1892: Oscar van Hemel is born

1901: Bernard Reichel is born

1902: August Klughardt dies

1917: Antonio Lauro is born

1939: August Enna dies

1950: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Sinfonietta La Jolla"

1956: Graeme Koehne is born

1972: FP of Martin Bjelik's "Verwandlungen"

1983: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier"

1985: FP of Günter Bialas' "Albumblatt GS"

1986: FP of John Palmer's "second string quartet / String Quartet No. 2"

1994: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Jeux d'amour"

1995: FP of Günter Bialas' "Sechs Duos / Six Duets"

1997: FP of Ernest Sauter's "verrà la morte"

1998: Alfred Schnittke dies

2013: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Serenade und Toccata für zwei Gitarristen"

2023: Carl Davis dies