Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 October ?

1545: John Taverner dies

1706: Baldassare Galuppi is born

1752: FP of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Le Devin du Village"

1815: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Wer stets hinter'n Ofen kroch"

1815: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Wie wir voll Glut uns hier zusammenfinden"

1817: Étienne-Nicolas Méhul dies

1825: Sixt Bachmann dies

1832: Othon Vandenbroek dies

1833: Johann Evangelist Habert is born

1834: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Buondelmonte"

1850: Francis Thomé is born

1853: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Murillo ou La Corde du pendu"

1854: FP of Charles François Gounod's "La Nonne sanglante / The Bloody Nun"

1871: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Schicksalslied"

1873: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1873: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Il parlatore eterno"

1881: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Bryllupskantate / Wedding Cantata"

1885: FP of Richard Strauss' "Kadenzen zum Klavierkonzert KV 491 von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"

1886: FP of André Messager's "Les deux pigeons"

1887: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Doppelkonzert für Violine und Violoncello"

1890: FP of Ethel Smyth's "Overture to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra"

1893: Charles François Gounod dies

1893: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Hymne"

1896: Friedrich Hollaender is born

1906: Léon Gastinel dies

1924: Egil Hovland is born

1932: John Biggs is born

1933: Jacques Charpentier is born

1935: Jordi Cervelló is born

1938: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Symphonie Nr. 6 / Symphony No. 6"

1944: Viktor Ullmann dies

1946: Howard Shore is born

1949: Lasse Thoresen is born

1961: Wynton Marsalis is born

1962: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Aus dem Buch Hiob"

1963: Cláudio Carneyro dies

1967: Paul Weiss dies

1969: Alfred Reynolds dies

1969: Hans Stieber dies

1974: Philippe Jordan is born

1982: Stasys Vainiūnas dies

1983: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Kyrie"

1988: FP of Philip Glass' "The Canyon"

1992: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Fraktale"

1996: FP of Philip Martin's "Yet that pipe and ye that play"

1997: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Hymne an den heiligen Adalbert"

1997: FP of Wolfgang Rihm's "Styx und Lethe"

2003: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Variations pour flûte et piano "

2014: FP of Barbara Heller's "Fünf-Finger-Turm / Five-Finger-Tower"