Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 November ?

1635: Aurelio Signoretti dies

1676: Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic dies

1692: Graf Unico von Wassenaer is born

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest"

1739: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf is born

1768: Carl Bonaventura Witzka is born

1788: Johann Samuel Schröter dies

1873: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Variationen für Orchester über ein Thema von Joseph Haydn"

1880: John Foulds is born

1882: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Smyčcový kvartet č.11 / String Quartet No. 11"

1883: João Pernambuco is born

1892: Paul Abraham is born

1896: FP of Richard Strauss' "Verführung"

1896: FP of Richard Strauss' "Gesang der Apollopriesterin"

1911: FP of Julius Bittner's "Der Bergsee"

1914: Felicitas Kukuck is born

1915: Douglas Lilburn is born

1916: Marie Wieck dies

1919: Hans Ströer is born

1934: Karl Herrmann dies

1946: Sigfrid Walther Müller dies

1946: Giuseppe Sinopoli is born

1947: Hilary Tann is born

1948: Dmitri Smirnov is born

1956: Jacob Weinberg dies

1957: Paul Moravec is born

1958: Adam Carse dies

1960: Dimitri Mitropoulos dies

1962: Graham Waterhouse is born

1965: FP of Giselher Klebe's "Jacobowsky und der Oberst / Jacobovsky and the Colonel"

1972: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Präludium / Prelude"

1973: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Deutsche Totenmesse"

1973: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Zwei Epitaphe"

1985: FP of Tilo Medek's "Melancholie"

1989: FP of Philip Glass' "Itaipu"

1992: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Schatten der Rose"

1995: FP of Barbara Heller's "Lalai für Flöte, Viola, Gitarre und Percussion"

1996: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Mio"

2004: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Couples pro dvě příčné flétny / Couples for two transverse flutes"

2005: FP of Annette Schlünz' "in den flüssen"

2010: Jerry Bock dies

2010: Rudolf Borisovich Barshai dies

2015: David Stock dies

2023: Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov dies