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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"