Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 August ?

1686: Nicola Antonio Porpora is born

1777: Giuseppe Scarlatti dies

1786: Frederick II dies

1806: Johann Kaspar Mertz is born

1816: Benjamin Bilse is born

1822: FP of Michele Carafa's "Le solitaire"

1834: Peter Benoit is born

1846: Marie Jaëll is born

1850: Franz Poenitz is born

1876: FP of Richard Wagner's "Götterdämmerung / Twilight of the Gods"

1880: Leo Ascher is born

1880: Ole Bull dies

1889: Ernst Frank dies

1898: Carl Zeller dies

1901: Henri Tomasi is born

1908: Kurt Hessenberg is born

1936: Pierre-Octave Ferroud dies

1939: Valery Gavrilin is born

1945: Gino Marinuzzi dies

1952: Heiner Goebbels is born

1953: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Der Prozess"

1954: FP of Rolf Liebermann's "Penelope"

1955: FP of Werner Egk's "Irische Legende / Irish Legend"

1958: Florent Schmitt dies

1959: FP of Heimo Erbse's "Julietta"

1961: Carlos Salzedo dies

1970: Donnacha Dennehy is born

1973: Jean Barraqué dies

1974: Johannes Maria Staud is born

1974: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Magnificat"

1994: Boris Kõrver dies

2000: Franco Donatoni dies

2000: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Violinkonzert N.3"

2002: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Symphonie Nr. 10 / Symphony No. 10"

2007: Graham Whettam dies