Classical Calendar: What happened on 14 August ?

1727: William Croft dies

1738: Leopold Hofmann is born

1745: FP of Francesco Corradini's "La Briseida"

1810: Samuel Sebastian Wesley is born

1814: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Il turco in Italia / The Turk in Italy"

1843: Paul Blumenthal is born

1869: Armas Järnefelt is born

1874: Edmund Meisel is born

1890: Konstanze Therese Adelheit Geiger dies

1890: Otto Albert Tichý is born

1891: Marinus de Jong is born

1892: Kaikhosru Sorabji is born

1899: Natalja Prawossudowitsch is born

1900: Emanuel Faltis dies

1901: Antonio Pedrotti is born

1901: Franz Konwitschny is born

1910: Pierre Schaeffer is born

1911: Jan Koetsier is born

1912: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Poslední akordy Chopinovy / Last Chords of Chopin"

1924: Georges Prêtre is born

1939: F. DiArta-Angeli is born

1944: Joseph-Ermend Bonnal dies

1946: Bjørn Howard Kruse is born

1956: Jaroslav Řídký dies

1956: Bertolt Brecht dies

1961: Guido Alberto Fano dies

1964: Ondrej Kukal is born

1966: Michio Shirasawa is born

1973: Hartwig Hochmair is born

1974: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Als Jakob erwachte ..."

1975: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Kum, Geselle min"

1981: Karl Böhm dies

1985: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Divertimento für Orchester"

1987: Vincent Persichetti dies

1987: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Hölderlin-Lieder nach Gedichten aus der Spätzeit II"

1992: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

1996: Sergiu Celibidache dies

2007: Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov dies

2019: Ivo Malec dies

2021: Hugh Wood dies