Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 September ?
1179: Hildegard von Bingen dies
1696: Daniel Daniélis dies
1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan"
1730: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"
1762: Francesco Geminiani dies
1795: Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante is born
1802: Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux is born
1803: Franz Xaver Suessmayr dies
1805: FP of Christian Kalkbrenner's "Don Juan"
1807: Ignaz Lachner is born
1815: Halfdan Kjerulf is born
1827: Ludwig Meinardus is born
1846: Francesco Pollini dies
1877: Jean Huré is born
1878: Vincenzo Tommasini is born
1879: FP of Paolo Giorza's "Cantata written expressly for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney International Exhibition"
1882: Hans Franke is born
1884: Charles Tomlinson Griffes is born
1885: Albert Laurent is born
1892: Hendrik Andriessen is born
1897: Wilhelm Heiser dies
1907: Ignaz Brüll dies
1908: Franz Grothe is born
1917: Isang Yun is born
1920: Jean Perrin is born
1925: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Chôro Nr. 7"
1930: Theo Loevendie is born
1949: Miguel Gómez Martínez is born
1953: Henry Holden Huss dies
1959: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Strophen über Originaltexte von Menander, Sophokles, Jesaja, Jeremia und Omar El-Khayám"
1962: FP of Grażyna Bacewicz' "Konzert für großes Orchester"
1964: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Der Zerrissene"
1969: FP of Günter Lampe's "Concerto sereno"
1979: Miroslav Kabeláč dies
1982: FP of Günter Bialas' "Trio"
1991: Zino Francescatti dies
2003: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Mo(ve)ments"
2009: Leon Kirchner dies
2014: Heiner Reitz dies
2015: Sir David Willcocks dies
2020: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Spanisch"
2020: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Bachsuite II"