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1575: Giovan Battista Leonetti is born

1599: Jacob Regnart dies

1621: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck dies

1717: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "Tieteberga"

1726: Giovanni Maria Capelli dies

1729: Pieter van Maldere is born

1750: Silvius Leopold Weiss dies

1765: Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy is born

1770: Alessandro Grazioli is born

1771: FP of Johann Adolph Hasse's "Il Ruggiero, ovvero L'eroica gratitudine"

1783: FP of Niccolò Piccinni's "Didon"

1808: FP of E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Gelübde"

1813: Julie von Baroni-Cavalcabò is born

1821: Albert Franz Doppler is born

1835: Konstanze Therese Adelheit Geiger is born

1836: Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich dies

1849: Arnold Krug is born

1865: Fritz von Bose is born

1873: Miguel Llobet is born

1893: Carlo Pedrotti dies

1908: Zbigniew Turski is born

1913: Cesar Bresgen is born

1919: FP of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "A chi la giarrettiera? / Whose Garter Is This?"

1920: Alberto Nepomuceno dies

1927: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Der gefangene Vogel "

1936: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Concertino für Klaviertrio und Streichorchester"

1938: FP of Aaron Copland's "Billy the Kid"

1939: Ludolf Nielsen dies

1942: FP of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo"

1946: Granville Bantock dies

1947: João Pernambuco dies

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Divertimento (Serenáda č.4)"

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Serenade Nr. 1 / Serenade No. 1"

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Serenade Nr. 3 / Serenade No. 3"

1953: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Streichquartett Nr. 7 / String Quartet No. 7"

1955: Leonid Desyatnikov is born

1957: Ralph Benatzky dies

1958: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne"

1959: Erkki-Sven Tüür is born

1960: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Anaklasis"

1968: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Quarteto de Cuerdas"

1969: FP of Joonas Kokkonen's "Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester"

1977: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Kassandras Tod"

1982: Jakov Gotovac dies

1988: FP of György Kurtág's "...quasi una fantasia..."

1988: FP of György Kurtág's "Drei alte Inschriften / Three Old Inscriptions"

1991: Boris Papandopulo dies

1999: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Ballade für Flöte, Fagott, Violoncello und Klavier"

2004: FP of Barbara Heller's "Nacht - Tagebuch"

2004: FP of Ursula Mamlok's "2 Klavierstücke / 2 Piano Pieces"

2004: FP of Joanna Stepalska-Spix' "Non Perpetuum Mobile"

2008: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Einsiedler"

2016: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Der gestohlene Buchstabe"

2019: Martin Sigrist dies