Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 October ?

1585: Heinrich Schütz is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottessohn"

1772: Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville dies

1807: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Lina"

1813: Carl Amand Mangold is born

1815: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Mein Weib ist capores"

1821: Friedrich Kiel is born

1829: FP of Johann Peter Pixis' "Bibiana"

1834: François-Adrien Boieldieu dies

1842: Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse dies

1849: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Filleule des fées / The Fairies' God-Daughter"

1860: Felix Woyrsch is born

1862: Emil George Konrad von Sauer is born

1865: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst dies

1869: Komitas Vardapet is born

1870: Louis Vierne is born

1882: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Dimitrij"

1892: FP of Richard Strauss' "Lebende Bilder"

1893: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Helgoland"

1896: FP of Luigi Mancinelli's "Ero e Leandro"

1899: Ernst Fabritius dies

1901: Eivind Groven is born

1902: Alexander Batta dies

1905: Eugen Bodart is born

1909: FP of Gustav Holst's "Songs of the West"

1911: Max Filke dies

1917: Hans Poser is born

1926: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Introduction and Allegro"

1930: Tōru Takemitsu is born

1931: FP of William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast"

1931: FP of William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast"

1936: Antonio José Martínez Palacios dies

1944: FP of Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto"

1945: Lee Chan-Hae is born

1945: Friedemann Katt is born

1946: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Fantasia / Fantasy"

1953: Robert Saxton is born

1953: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Winter Words"

1954: Carl Vine is born

1958: Michael Jarrell is born

1961: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Jubilate Deo"

1964: FP of Samuel Barber's "Night Flight"

1966: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Musik für Klavier und Schlaginstrumente"

1974: Bruno Mantovani is born

1978: Tibor Serly dies

1988: Ernst Hermann Meyer dies

1990: FP of György Kurtág's "Hommage à Robert Schumann"

1993: Genevieve Calame dies

1993: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Kolloquium für Posaune, Schlagzeug und Klavier"

1993: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Konzert für drei Schlagzeuger und Orchester"

1993: FP of Ahmed Adnan Saygun's "Viyolonsel Konçertosu / Concerto for Violoncello"

1994: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "Sans Soleil"

1998: Anatol Vieru dies

2000: FP of Olga Magidenko's "... Wie schwarze Kerze - brennen ..."

2009: Richard Nanes dies