Classical Calendar: What happened on 24 October ?

1521: Robert Fayrfax dies

1633: Jean Titelouze dies

1697: FP of André Campra's "L'Europe galante / The Gallant Europe"

1721: Quirino Gasparini is born

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim"

1725: Alessandro Scarlatti dies

1737: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Castor et Pollux"

1739: Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is born

1789: Ramon Carnicer is born

1799: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf dies

1809: Joseph Alois Schmittbaur dies

1810: Carl Baermann is born

1811: Ferdinand Hiller is born

1819: Maria Anna Antonia von Schaden dies

1819: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "La donna del lago / The Lady of the Lake"

1821: Heinrich Gottwald is born

1876: FP of Richard Genée's "Der Seekadett"

1877: Ernst Mielck is born

1882: Emmerich Kálmán is born

1892: Marius Casadesus is born

1892: Robert Franz dies

1893: Josef Hellmesberger Sr. dies

1918: Charles Lecocq dies

1918: FP of George Gershwin's "Some Wonderful Sort of Someone"

1918: FP of George Gershwin's "The Real American Folk Song (Is A Rag)"

1919: Martin Jacobi dies

1919: FP of George Gershwin's "Come To The Moon"

1919: FP of George Gershwin's "Swanee"

1919: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Prélude / Prelude"

1923: FP of Gerald Finzi's "By Footpath and Stile: Paying calls"

1923: FP of Gerald Finzi's "By Footpath and Stile: Where the picnic was"

1923: FP of Gerald Finzi's "By Footpath and Stile: The oxen"

1923: FP of Gerald Finzi's "By Footpath and Stile: The master and the leaves"

1923: FP of Gerald Finzi's "By Footpath and Stile: Voices from things growing in a churchyard"

1923: FP of Gerald Finzi's "By Footpath and Stile: Exeunt omnes"

1925: Luciano Berio is born

1927: Renato de Grandis is born

1927: FP of Germaine Tailleferre's "Sous le rempart d'Athènes"

1927: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Chôro Nr. 8"

1927: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Chôro Nr. 4"

1929: George Crumb is born

1931: Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina is born

1936: Rainer Kunad is born

1937: Ferdinand Küchler dies

1939: Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia dies

1940: Victor Hollaender dies

1942: FP of Gian Francesco Malipiero's "I capricci di Callot"

1948: Franz Lehár dies

1949: Joaquín Nin dies

1951: George Tsontakis is born

1952: FP of Eduard Erdmann's "Capricci"

1954: Eric Moe is born

1955: Anders Hultqvist is born

1955: Heinrich Sthamer dies

1957: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Undine"

1959: Yakov Kreizberg is born

1962: Georges Taconet dies

1965: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today"

1970: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Kosmogonia"

1971: Carl Ruggles dies

1972: FP of Günter Bialas' "Haiku-Folge I"

1975: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "An die Nachgeborenen"

1976: Richard Sturzenegger dies

1981: FP of Günter Bialas' "Zwei Chansons"

1989: Nayden Gerov dies

1989: FP of Tilo Medek's "Tafelkonfekt"

1996: FP of Günter Bialas' "Phönix"

1997: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "Photophorus"

2000: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Psalm 84"

2000: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Concerto"

2005: FP of Ada Gentile's "Perviolinosolo"

2007: Petr Eben dies

2009: FP of Barbara Heller's "Staffel-Lauf"

2009: FP of Barbara Heller's "Weit-Sprung"

2011: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Was?"

2011: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Flirt?"