Classical Calendar: What happened on 21 October ?

1651: Jacob Praetorius dies

1662: Henry Lawes dies

1729: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf"

1747: François Campion dies

1772: FP of Antonio Salieri's "La Secchia rapita"

1784: FP of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's "Richard Cœur de Lion"

1786: Henry Lemoine is born

1793: Johann Ernst Hartmann dies

1798: Johann Christoph Schmügel dies

1817: Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel dies

1823: Emilio Arrieta is born

1858: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers"

1866: FP of Josef Strauss' "Die Libelle"

1869: Rudolf Braun is born

1879: Joseph Canteloube is born

1885: Egon Wellesz is born

1908: Howard Ferguson is born

1912: Sir Georg Solti is born

1921: Malcolm Arnold is born

1922: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "König Mensch"

1928: Luna Alcalay is born

1930: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Lyrische Suite"

1930: FP of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Suite für 2 Violinen, Violonello und Klavier (linke Hand)"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Let 'Em Eat Cake"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Blue, Blue, Blue"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Let 'Em Eat Cake"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Mine"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "On And On And On"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Union Square"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "A Hell Of A Hole"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Climb Up That Social Letter"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Cloistered From The Noisy City"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Comes The Revolution"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Hanging Throttlebottom In The Morning"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "I Know A Foul Ball"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Let 'Em Eat Caviar"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "No Better Way To Start A Case"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh!"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Shirts By The Millions"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "That's What He Did"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "The Union League"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Throttle Throttlebottom"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Tweedledee For President"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Up And At 'Em! On To Vict'ry"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "What More Can A General Do?"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "When The Judges Doff The Ermine"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Who's The Greatest?"

1933: FP of George Gershwin's "Why Speak Of Money?"

1936: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Sonate für Violine und Klavier / Sonata for Violin and Piano"

1938: Virko Baley is born

1946: Dimitri Nicolau is born

1949: Shulamit Ran is born

1950: FP of Bertold Hummel's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1956: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Wandlungen"

1960: Victor Vološinov dies

1962: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Fluorescences"

1964: Lino Liviabella dies

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "God Save the Queen"

1973: Otto Albert Tichý dies

1980: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Arioso - furioso"

1994: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Recitativo"

1997: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Imulnori II"

2001: FP of Philip Glass' "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra"

2003: Wolfgang Köhler dies

2005: FP of Louis Dandrel's "Caligula"

2005: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Light"

2005: FP of Annette Schlünz' "dehors"

2019: Josef Maria Horváth dies

2021: Bernard Haitink dies

2021: FP of Alois Bröder's "Sechs Nachtstücke"