Classical Calendar: What happened on 9 August ?

1557: Nicholas Ludford dies

1648: Johann Michael (I) Bach is born

1791: Johann Anton Kobrich dies

1831: Christian Fink is born

1861: Wilhelm Berger is born

1874: Reynaldo Hahn is born

1875: Albert William Ketèlbey is born

1875: Primo Riccitelli is born

1884: Hermann Wunsch is born

1890: Sándor Jemnitz is born

1902: Zino Francescatti is born

1914: Ferenc Fricsay is born

1919: Ruggero Leoncavallo dies

1925: Robert Heppener is born

1949: FP of Carl Orff's "Antigonae"

1950: FP of Günter Bialas' "2. Streichquartett"

1955: Marion Eugénie Bauer dies

1966: Gösta Nystroem dies

1967: Per Mårtensson is born

1968: Fritz Stiedry dies

1975: Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich dies

1980: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Nachtstück für Blockflötenensemble"

1983: André Hossein dies

1983: FP of Ernst Krenek's "Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 2"

1988: Giacinto Scelsi dies

1993: Ludwig Gebhard dies

1994: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Symphony No. 5"

1998: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Der Erlöser"

2001: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Fuchs"

2002: Bertold Hummel dies