Classical Calendar: What happened on 20 August ?

1153: Bernard of Clairvaux dies

1561: Jacopo Peri is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut"

1769: Bonifacius Asioli is born

1791: FP of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's "Isabelle de Salisbury"

1813: Johann Baptist Vanhal dies

1827: Josef Strauss is born

1828: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Le comte Ory"

1851: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Aurelia, Herzogin von Bulgarien"

1856: Philipp Jacob Riotte dies

1860: Cesare di Castelbarco dies

1868: Luigi Forino is born

1882: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Ouvertüre solennelle 1812"

1897: Hans Lang is born

1914: Jean-Henri Renié dies

1921: Leonid Afanasyev is born

1931: Waldemar Edler von Baussnern dies

1935: Otakar Ostrcil dies

1940: Diana Rud is born

1953: Reinhard David Flender is born

1956: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Edinburgh"

1960: Rudolf Moser dies

1963: Julia Schwartz is born

1965: Thierry Pécou is born

1973: FP of Carl Orff's "De temporum fine comœdia / A Play of the End of Time"

1976: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Bläserquintett"

1978: Ivan Jirko dies

1993: FP of Ljudmila Jurina's "Ekagrata"

1994: FP of Gerald Eckert's "... stehen auch immer leerer ..."

1994: FP of Barbara Heller's "Labyrinth-Leben"

2004: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Naxos Quartet No. 4"

2005: Robert Paredes dies

2006: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "...miramondo multiplo..."

2017: Wilhelm Killmayer dies