Classical Calendar: What happened on 6 October ?

1600: FP of Jacopo Peri's "L'Euridice favola drammatica"

1624: FP of Marco da Gagliano's "La regina Sant'Orsola"

1651: Heinrich Albert dies

1669: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac"

1715: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Komm, du süße Todesstunde"

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende"

1754: Adam Falckenhagen dies

1762: Francesco Onofrio Manfredini dies

1785: Albert Methfessel is born

1786: Antonio Maria Sacchini dies

1837: Jean-François Lesueur dies

1853: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Bijou perdu"

1868: Léon Kreutzer dies

1868: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "La Périchole"

1874: Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen dies

1881: Pierre Bretagne is born

1882: Karol Szymanowski is born

1888: Max Butting is born

1892: FP of Isaac Albéniz' "Oh! Horror! Horror!"

1892: FP of Alberto Franchetti's "Cristoforo Colombo"

1896: Otto Siegl is born

1902: FP of Leo Blech's "Das war ich!"

1913: Alexi Matchavariani is born

1917: FP of Walter Kollo's "Drei alte Schachteln"

1920: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Rhapsody"

1921: Boris Mersson is born

1925: FP of Richard Strauss' "Parergon zur Symphonia Domestica"

1933: Stanley Myers is born

1933: Zakaria Paliashvili dies

1935: Frederic Hymen Cowen dies

1935: Biancamaria Furgeri is born

1935: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Hlas Lesa / The Voice of the Forest"

1942: Robert Kemper is born

1943: Udo Zimmermann is born

1947: Leevi Madetoja dies

1948: Glenn Branca is born

1954: Hakon Børresen dies

1956: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 1"

1958: Harry Lamott Crowl is born

1958: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Suite für Blockflöten"

1962: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Psalmentriptychon"

1969: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "A phoenix"

1971: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Streichquartett Nr. 3 / String Quartet No. 3"

1977: FP of Michael Tippett's "Symphony no. 4"

1979: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Oktett"

1988: Severiano Briseño Chávez dies

1989: FP of Biancamaria Furgeri's "Pars mea dominus"

1992: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Caroline Mathilde: Concert Suite from Act II of the Ballet"

1995: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "7 Apercus für Klavier"

1995: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Traumkraut"

1996: Gunter Erdmann dies

1996: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Slowakische Suite"

1998: FP of Samuel Adler's "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra"

1999: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Preludio a orchestra"

2000: FP of Samuel Adler's "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra"

2002: FP of Annette Schlünz' "Abendamsel"

2005: Jiří Válek dies

2008: Edmunds Goldsteins dies

2016: FP of Matthias Georg Kendlinger's "Unser Vater"

2017: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Zwischen Wunde und Schmerz"