Classical Calendar: What happened on 30 August ?

1585: Andrea Gabrieli dies

1701: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Gli affetti più grandi vinti dal più giusto"

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn"

1742: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Mer han en neue Oberkeet"

1767: Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke is born

1807: Ernesto Cavallini is born

1809: Adolf Friedrich Hesse is born

1851: Rudolf Wagner is born

1856: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "I promesi sposi / The Betrothed"

1867: Jean-Henri Renié is born

1868: Josef Schmid is born

1883: Ángela Peralta de Castera dies

1904: Kate Fanny Loder dies

1923: Gerhard Wimberger is born

1931: Ermano Maggini is born

1933: FP of Samuel Barber's "The School for Scandal"

1936: Edward Pałłasz is born

1943: David Maslanka is born

1950: Joseph Jemain dies

1951: Sergey Zhukov is born

1952: Paul Giger is born

1954: Marc-Olivier Dupin is born

1956: Aita Donostia dies

1958: Alexander Albrecht dies

1960: Chalino Sánchez is born

1961: Hermann Buchal dies

1966: Liza Lim is born

1973: Johann Baptist Hilber dies

1973: FP of Unbekannter Komponist's "Golestan ou Le Jardin des Roses / Golestan or The Rose Garden"

1974: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Improvisation I"

1992: FP of Philip Glass' "Symphony No. 1"

1999: FP of John McCabe's "Sonata for Cello and Piano"

2001: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Jason und Medea"

2006: Dušan Martinček dies

2008: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Sequenzen"