Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 September ?

1587: Francesca Caccini is born

1684: Johann Gottfried Walther is born

1711: Ignaz Holzbauer is born

1817: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Die Ahnfrau"

1819: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Le Testament et les billets doux"

1831: Peter Hänsel dies

1833: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Proscrit ou Le Tribunal invisible"

1835: Johan Adam Krygell is born

1857: Karol Kurpiński dies

1860: Alberto Franchetti is born

1870: Maria Amalia Friederike Prinzessin von Sachsen dies

1875: Henriette Renié is born

1883: Lord Gerald Hugh Berners is born

1883: Ludomir Różycki is born

1893: Arthur Benjamin is born

1897: Pablo Sorozábal is born

1903: Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner dies

1910: Josef Tal is born

1918: Ernest Farrar dies

1929: Hermann Grädener dies

1933: Rudolf Peterka dies

1939: Cornelis Dopper dies

1939: Naresh Sohal is born

1941: Haflidi Hallgrímsson is born

1942: Imant Karlis Raminsh is born

1943: Michael Vetter is born

1960: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Dimensionen der Zeit und der Stille"

1966: FP of Tadeusz Baird's "Jutro"

1969: Johanna Doderer is born

1969: Rudolf Wagner-Regeny dies

1974: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Burleske"

1982: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Concerto for Ursula"

1988: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Missa Claravallensis"

1988: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Resurrection"

1990: Claude Loyola Allgén dies

1999: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Multiphonie"

2003: FP of György Kurtág's "...Concertante..."

2004: FP of Philip Glass' "Piano Concerto No. 2"

2008: Mauricio Kagel dies

2011: Kurt Sanderling dies