Classical Calendar: What happened on 21 September ?

1698: François Francœur is born

1751: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "La Guirlande ou Les Fleurs enchantées"

1768: Louis Emmanuel Jadin is born

1812: Emanuel Schikaneder dies

1839: Gottfried Weber dies

1850: Hans Sitt is born

1865: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Refrains des Bouffes"

1869: Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński is born

1872: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Der schwarze Korsar"

1874: Gustav Holst is born

1882: Alf Thorvald Hurum is born

1882: André Lermyte is born

1887: Lodewijk de Vocht is born

1893: Moses Pergament is born

1910: Meinrad Schütter is born

1933: FP of Heinrich Strecker's "Ännchen von Tharau"

1943: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Rejoice the Lamb"

1943: FP of Michael Tippett's "Fanfare no. 1"

1946: Hartmut Schmidt is born

1946: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Lo, the full, final sacrifice"

1947: Olov Olofsson is born

1949: Raimo Kangro is born

1953: Roger Quilter dies

1961: Michael Torke is born

1962: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Kanon"

1962: FP of Michael Tippett's "Songs for Ariel"

1964: Theodor Anton Blumer dies

1976: Robert Saar dies

1977: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Sechs kleine Klavierstücke"

1996: Sulchan Nassidse dies

2000: Bengt Hambraeus dies

2001: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Der narrische Uhu"

2001: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Ein Edelstein in einer einfachen Einfassung Nr. 2"

2002: FP of Philip Glass' "Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra"

2003: FP of Matthias Bonitz' "Goethe-Fragmente - Venedig"

2003: FP of Matthias Bonitz' "Venezianische Träume"

2018: Katherine Hoover dies

2019: Christopher Rouse dies