Classical Calendar: What happened on 28 August ?

1721: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "La Silvia"

1733: FP of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "La serva padrona"

1737: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Zenobia"

1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born

1753: Francesco Paolo Scipriani dies

1754: Peter von Winter is born

1767: Johann Schobert dies

1775: Sophie Gail is born

1809: Antonio Somma is born

1826: Walter MacFarren is born

1827: Teresa Milanollo is born

1829: Albert Hermann Dietrich is born

1831: Ludvig Norman is born

1850: FP of Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin"

1867: Umberto Giordano is born

1876: Josef Wenzig dies

1879: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Inveni David (II)"

1879: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Os justi"

1890: Ivor Gurney is born

1894: Karl Böhm is born

1903: Rudolf Wagner-Regeny is born

1914: Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov dies

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "George White's Scandals of 1922"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Blue Monday (Blues)"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Across The Sea"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Argentina"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Cinderelatives"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "I Found A Four Leaf Clover"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "(I'll Build A) Stairway To Paradise"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "She Hangs Out In Our Alley"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Where Is The Man Of My Dreams"

1923: FP of George Gershwin's "I Won't Say I Will, But I Won't Say I Won't"

1929: István Kertész is born

1941: Helmuth Jörns dies

1946: Willy Engel-Berger dies

1959: Bohuslav Martinů dies

1963: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Schwebender Genius"

1963: FP of Michael Tippett's "Concerto for Orchestra"

1968: Geoffrey Gordon is born

1972: René Leibowitz dies

1975: Tobias Foskett is born

1980: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Quartett Nr.2"

1983: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Ballade"

1999: FP of Philip Glass' "Symphony No. 5"