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1600: Claude le Jeune dies

1615: Heinrich Bach is born

1743: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Il Tigrane"

1766: FP of Gasparo Angiolini's "Le Depart d'Enée ou La Didon abandonnée"

1782: FP of Giovanni Paisiello's "Il barbière di Siviglia, ovvero L'inutile precauzione"

1786: August Mühling is born

1800: William Billings dies

1808: Paul Wranitzky dies

1809: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Elise-Hortense"

1812: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "La pietra del paragone / The Touchstone"

1816: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso / The Newspaper, or The Marriage Contest"

1821: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Du, bekränzend uns're Laren"

1829: FP of Michele Carafa's "Jenny"

1835: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"

1838: FP of Michele Carafa's "Thérèse"

1859: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Adoramus"

1871: Cipriani Potter dies

1873: Amilcare Zanella is born

1891: Charles Münch is born

1898: George Gershwin is born

1919: FP of Hjalmar Borgstrøm's "Ni digte af Cally Monrad"

1932: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1945: Béla Bartók dies

1950: Lewis Nielson is born

1951: Edmon Colomer is born

1957: Auguste Fauchard dies

1957: FP of Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story"

1957: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Pas de Six, from 'The Prince of the Pagodas'"

1967: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Kontsert dlya skripki s orkestrom N° 2 [Концерт для скрипки с оркестром № 2] / Violin Concerto No. 2"

1970: FP of Karl-Heinz Füssl's "Dybuk"

1972: FP of Günter Bialas' "Erwartung"

1973: Irina Emeliantseva is born

1976: FP of Günter Bialas' "Moments musicaux"

1981: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Media in vita"

1986: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Miniaturen für drei Blockflöten mit und ohne Klavier"

1993: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Sonatine für Violine und Klavier"

1993: FP of Wilfried Hiller's "Der Rattenfänger"

1995: FP of Altug Ünlü's "Klavierkonzert / Piano Concerto"

1995: FP of Isang Yun's "Klarinettenquintett Nr. 2"

1998: FP of Philip Glass' "White Raven"

1998: FP of Georges Taconet's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

2003: Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter dies

2003: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Quintett für Flöte und Streicher"

2004: FP of Olga Magidenko's "... In meinen Träumen ..."

2009: FP of Ada Gentile's "Perchitarrasola"

2015: FP of Michael Em Walter's "Fasson"

2021: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Erdbeben"

2021: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Medea und Erynnien"

2021: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Bachsuite III"