Classical Calendar: What happened on 16 August ?

1776: Philipp Jacob Riotte is born

1795: Heinrich August Marschner is born

1825: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Walzer für die Kronprinzessin"

1831: Eduard Brendler dies

1846: FP of Carl Gottlieb Reißiger's "Der Schiffbruch der Medusa"

1852: FP of Giuseppe Apolloni's "Adelchi"

1857: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "Aroldo"

1859: Percy Godfrey is born

1863: Cornélie van Oosterzee is born

1863: Gabriel Pierné is born

1871: Zakaria Paliashvili is born

1872: Siegmund von Hausegger is born

1876: FP of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried"

1895: Jacinto Guerrero is born

1901: Olav Løchen Kielland is born

1917: Roque Cordero is born

1925: Kirke Lewis Mechem is born

1930: Lucien Guérinel is born

1932: FP of George Gershwin's "Cuban Overture"

1953: Georg Friedrich Haas is born

1954: FP of Berthold Goldschmidt's "Cellokonzert / Cello Concerto"

1956: Flavio Emilio Scogna is born

1959: Wanda Landowska dies

1960: Franz Welser-Möst is born

1975: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Verbunkos"

1992: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Symphonie Nr. 4 / Symphony No. 4"

2003: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Symphonie Nr. 12 / Symphony No. 12"

2008: Lucrecia Kasilag dies

2011: Emmerich Smola dies

2013: FP of Stefan Heucke's "Variationen über einen Ländler von Schubert"

2020: Sukhi Kang dies