Classical Calendar: What happened on 4 October ?

1568: Jakob Arcadelt dies

1692: FP of Johann Sigismund Kusser's "Narcissus"

1700: Sebastian Bodinus is born

1713: Antoine Dauvergne is born

1746: FP of Jean-Marie Leclair d.Ä.'s "Scylla et Glaucus"

1749: Jean-Louis Duport is born

1758: Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello dies

1763: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "Ifigenia in Tauride"

1764: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Alessandro (Les amours d'Alexandre et de Roxane)"

1779: Léopold Aimon is born

1790: François Fémy is born

1803: FP of Luigi Cherubini's "Anacréon ou L'Amour fugitif"

1806: FP of Victor Dourlen's "Philoclès"

1815: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra / Elizabeth, Queen of England"

1825: FP of Michele Carafa's "Gl'italici e gl'indiani"

1829: Jacques Blumenthal is born

1838: Sophia Westenholz dies

1848: Louis Massonneau dies

1859: Henri de Saussine is born

1875: Ernesto de Curtis is born

1877: FP of Ignaz Brüll's "Der Landfriede"

1888: FP of Joseph Bayer's "Die Puppenfee / The Fairy Doll"

1889: FP of Antonio Smareglia's "Il vassallo di Szigeth"

1893: FP of Leo Blech's "Aglaja"

1893: FP of Ignaz Jan Paderewski's "Fantaisie polonaise sur des thème originaux"

1905: René Defossez is born

1905: Léon Orthel is born

1905: Victor Vološinov is born

1910: FP of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Der Schneemann"

1913: FP of Walter Kollo's "Wie einst im Mai"

1916: FP of Richard Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos (Neue Bearbeitung)"

1917: Albert de Klerk is born

1926: Kitty von Escherich dies

1927: John W. Boone dies

1928: FP of Franz Lehár's "Friederike"

1934: Henri Marteau dies

1946: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Drei Skizzen für Klavier"

1949: Edmund Eysler dies

1950: Egīls Straume is born

1956: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 / Piano Concerto No. 4"

1959: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Kontsert dlya violoncheli s orkestrom N° 1 [Концерт для виолончели с оркестром № 1] / Cello Concerto No. 1"

1963: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Nipponari"

1970: George Frederick McKay dies

1974: Jan Meisl is born

1982: Glenn Gould dies

1986: FP of Barbara Heller's "Trauernde Sirene"

1990: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Angela und der kleine Bär"

1993: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Fadensonnen"

1994: Yardena Alotin dies

1996: FP of Barbara Heller's "Selbstgespräch für Blasinstrumente solo"

1996: FP of Barbara Heller's "Selbstgespräch"

1997: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Hymne an den heiligen Daniel"

1998: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Trio in einem Satz"

2000: Tofig Guliyev dies

2003: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Rainulf und Adelasia"

2005: Jean Louel dies

2013: Akira Miyoshi dies

2014: Konrad Boehmer dies

2015: FP of Michael Em Walter's "Offene Gegend"