Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 October ?

1669: Johann Nicolaus Bach is born

1688: Domenico Zipoli is born

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben"

1730: Ernestus Weinrauch is born

1761: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre"

1771: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Ascanio in Alba"

1786: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Azémia (1. Fassung)"

1815: Emanuel Geibel is born

1822: Rochus Dedler dies

1825: Peter von Winter dies

1837: Johann Nepomuk Hummel dies

1847: Francisca Gonzaga is born

1849: Frédéric Chopin dies

1855: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Housard de Berenchy"

1861: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Apothicaire et Perruquier"

1878: Henri Mulet is born

1892: Herbert Howells is born

1904: Nicolai Amani dies

1908: Hans Backer is born

1915: Heinrich Freiherr von Bach dies

1915: Heinrich Molbe dies

1916: Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz is born

1924: Pompeyo Camps is born

1932: Gundaris Pone is born

1932: FP of Ernst Steffan's "Katharina"

1935: FP of Walter Kollo's "Pour plaire aux femmes"

1936: FP of Fidelio Friedrich Finke's "Die Jakobsfahrt"

1940: FP of Antoine Mariotte's "Nele Doryyss"

1944: Pavel Haas dies

1944: Hans Krása dies

1949: Maurice Wright is born

1950: FP of Samuel Barber's "Let Down the Bars, O Death"

1953: FP of Boris Blacher's "Abstrakt Oper Nr. 1"

1959: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Variationen über ein slowakisches Thema"

1963: Christian Jost is born

1966: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Variationen für vier Holzbläser"

1971: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Actions"

1971: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Symphonie Nr. 8 / Symphony No. 8"

1972: FP of Marin Goleminow's "Zografat Zahariy [Зографът Захарий] / Zahari, the Icon Painter"

1989: Morteza Hannaneh dies

1992: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Hyvät ystävät"

1996: Berthold Goldschmidt dies

1997: Antonio Ruiz-Pipó dies

2001: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Die Heilige Linde"

2002: FP of Hjalmar Borgstrøm's "Thora på Rimol"

2005: FP of Paul Patterson's "Aguecheek's Antics"

2009: FP of Fabian Müller's "Der letzte Ta...kt"

2017: Ingvar Lidholm dies

2020: Juliusz Łuciuk dies