Classical Calendar: What happened on 21 November ?
1631: FP of Claudio Monteverdi's "Danksagungs-Messe"
1695: Henry Purcell dies
1718: Friedrich-Wilhelm Marpurg is born
1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!"
1744: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Ipermestra"
1755: Mateo Albéniz is born
1756: FP of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's "Blast Lermen, ihr Feinde"
1772: Josef Triebensee is born
1789: FP of Giovanni Paisiello's "I zingari in fiera"
1794: FP of Hyacinthe Jadin's "Cange"
1796: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ah perfido!"
1804: Giovanni Mane Giornovichi dies
1807: FP of Friedrich Witt's "Sinfonie à grand orchestre N° 3 / Symphony No. 3"
1827: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali"
1834: Agathon Billeter is born
1837: FP of Richard Wagner's "Nicolay"
1852: Francisco Tárrega is born
1863: Joseph Mayseder dies
1871: Panayot Pipkov is born
1872: Emile Steinkühler dies
1877: Sigfrid Karg-Elert is born
1892: FP of Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow's "Suite h-Moll"
1894: FP of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Antigone"
1901: FP of Richard Strauss' "Feuersnot"
1902: FP of Franz Lehár's "Wiener Frauen"
1905: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 / Piano Concerto No. 2"
1907: Gaetano Braga dies
1912: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Ecce sacerdos"
1921: Joonas Kokkonen is born
1926: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 1"
1931: Malcolm Williamson is born
1932: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen is born
1932: FP of Alexandre Tansman's "Großstadt / The Big City"
1933: Perley Dunn Aldrich dies
1938: Leopold Godowsky dies
1939: Jürgen Ulrich is born
1945: FP of Benjamin Britten's "String Quartet No. 2"
1945: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Zolushka [Золушка] / Cinderella"
1949: Judith Shatin is born
1954: Karol Rathaus dies
1960: Stewart Wallace is born
1963: Artur Lemba dies
1968: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Symphonie Nr. 7 / Symphony No. 7"
1972: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Thunderstorms"
1972: FP of Arthur Bliss' "This Night"
1972: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Leisure"
1974: Frank Martin dies
1984: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Puls"
1985: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Vier leichte Stücke für drei Gitarren"
1986: FP of Günter Bialas' "4. Streichquartett"
1989: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Urzeitmusik"
1990: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Strathclyde Concerto No. 4"
1995: Philip B. Catelinet dies
1996: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Musik für Solo-Cello"
1997: Robert Simpson dies
1998: Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz dies
1999: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Montpellier Variations"
1999: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Tristia"
2006: René Gerber dies
2010: José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado dies
2011: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Angela und der kleine Bär"