Classical Calendar: What happened on 9 October ?

1639: Caspar Kittel dies

1727: Johann Wilhelm Hertel is born

1769: Marianus Königsperger dies

1781: Thomas Alexander Erskine dies

1823: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "La Neige"

1826: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Le siège de Corinthe / The Siege of Corinth"

1827: Max Seifriz is born

1835: Camille Saint-Saëns is born

1856: Sylvain Dupuis is born

1863: Alexander Ilyich Siloti is born

1867: Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński dies

1881: Richard Wüerst dies

1886: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Der Vice-Admiral"

1890: Janis Medinš is born

1891: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Requiem"

1900: Heinrich von Herzogenberg dies

1906: Janis Ivanovs is born

1907: Romualdo Marenco dies

1907: François Olivier is born

1928: Einojuhani Rautavaara is born

1935: Tibor Fátyol is born

1937: August de Boeck dies

1953: Roberto Sierra is born

1963: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Symphonie Nr. 4 / Symphony No. 4"

1981: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Konzert für Violoncello und Blasorchester / Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra"

1981: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Branches of the night and of the day"

1983: FP of Wolfgang Rihm's "Monodram"

1999: FP of Mikis Theodorakis' "Suite für Klavier nach dem Ballett "Alexis Sorbas""

2003: Antanas Rekašius dies

2007: Kurt Schwaen dies

2012: Luna Alcalay dies

2013: Kurt Hopstein dies

2015: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Zeitgenossisches"

2024: Leif Segerstam dies