Classical Calendar: What happened on 19 October ?

1694: Pierre Menault dies

1819: Louis Lee is born

1845: FP of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg / Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle"

1846: Niels Peter Jensen dies

1868: Antoine Bessems dies

1875: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "La Boulangère a des écus"

1887: FP of Heinrich Zöllner's "Faust"

1892: Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen is born

1908: Geirr Tveitt is born

1909: FP of Cornelis Dopper's "William Ratcliff"

1912: FP of Hjalmar Borgstrøm's "Symfoni nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1913: Johann Lütter is born

1913: FP of Richard Strauss' "Festliches Präludium"

1916: Karl-Birger Blomdahl is born

1929: Dumitru Capoianu is born

1931: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Schönheit dieser Welt vergeht"

1938: FP of Kurt Weill's "Knickerbocker Holiday"

1943: Robin Holloway is born

1955: Roland Dyens is born

1958: FP of Samuel Barber's "Wondrous Love"

1960: Günter Raphael dies

1961: John Fernström dies

1970: Fritz Jöde dies

1972: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Violinkonzert / Violin Concerto"

1987: FP of Günter Bialas' "Romanze / Romance"

1989: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Ich komm einen Weg"

1992: Maurice Le Roux dies

1996: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Solo für Orchester"

1996: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Burleske Suite aus Ubu Rex"

1997: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Dunkel Helle"

1998: FP of Philip Glass' "Psalm #126"

1999: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Kangkangsullae"

2002: FP of Paul Patterson's "Jubilee Dances"

2005: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Naxos Quartet No. 7"

2011: James Yannatos dies

2014: Stephen Paulus dies

2024: FP of Alois Bröder's "Il Viaggio"

2024: FP of Alois Bröder's "Das Licht vom anderen Haus"

2024: FP of Alois Bröder's "Die Reise"