Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 December ?

1578: Agostino Antonio Agazzari is born

1666: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Les muses"

1671: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Ballet des ballets"

1706: Johann Georg Ahle dies

1708: Marianus Königsperger is born

1731: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Schwinget freudig euch empor"

1774: Johann Friedrich Agricola dies

1786: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Les Horaces"

1824: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Erfüllte Hoffnung oder Die Wunderperle"

1830: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Joséphine ou Le Retour de Wagram"

1831: Traugott Maximilian Eberwein dies

1837: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Le Domino noir"

1840: Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari dies

1840: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "La Favorite"

1841: FP of Friedrich Wilhelm Grund's "Kantate zur Einweihung der neuen Börse in Hamburg"

1841: FP of Adolph Bernhard Marx' "Mose"

1843: FP of Franz Adolf Berwald's "Jag går i kloster"

1845: Johann Simon Mayr dies

1853: Carlo Soliva dies

1856: Robert Kajanus is born

1858: FP of Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1859: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Begräbnisgesang"

1866: Harry T. Burleigh is born

1868: Stefan Jaray-Janetschek is born

1870: Francis Casadesus is born

1874: Johannes Hannsen is born

1877: FP of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Samson et Dalila / Samson and Delilah"

1879: Rudolf Friml is born

1880: Claudio S. Grafulla dies

1880: Josephine Lang dies

1882: FP of Johannes Brahms' "O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid"

1883: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

1884: Roger de Francmesnil is born

1886: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Violinsonate Nr. 2 / Violin Sonata No. 2"

1894: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Messe / Mass"

1899: Sir John Barbirolli is born

1900: FP of Leoš Janáček's "Amarus"

1901: Staf Nees is born

1904: FP of Gustav Holst's "Soft and Gently"

1908: Werner Eisbrenner is born

1911: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Festmusik"

1913: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Abschied"

1913: FP of Richard Strauss' "Eine deutsche Motette"

1914: FP of Ernst Steffan's "Betty"

1916: Francesco Paolo Tosti dies

1924: Else Marie Pade is born

1925: Juli Garreta dies

1931: Vincent d'Indy dies

1932: Amadeo Vives i Roig dies

1935: Jürg Wyttenbach is born

1937: Katherine Hoover is born

1949: FP of Béla Bartók's "Violakonzert / Viola Concerto"

1949: FP of Olivier Messiaen's "Turangalîla-Symphonie / Turangalila-Symphony"

1950: Dinu Lipatti dies

1958: Anne Mathilde Bilbro dies

1965: FP of Benjamin Britten's "The Poet's Echo"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Worry about Money"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Lenten Flowers"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Harvest"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Seed"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "In the Beck"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Storm"

1969: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Nocturne"

1970: FP of Michael Tippett's "The Knot Garden"

1972: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Konzert für Violine und Orchester"

1974: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté dies

1989: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Flötenquartett / Flute Quartet"

1990: Aaron Copland dies

1998: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Nen"

2001: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Drei Lieder für mittlere Stimme"

2002: Henning Wellejus dies

2003: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Orgelkonzert / Organ Concerto"

2006: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Annäherung an Petrarca"

2011: FP of Michael Em Walter's "Einklang"