Classical Calendar: What happened on 4 December ?

1660: André Campra is born

1667: Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi is born

1667: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair is born

1680: Petronio Franceschini dies

1816: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia"

1822: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Libussa"

1833: FP of Théodore Labarre's "La Révolte au sérail"

1838: Melesio Morales is born

1849: Ernesto Köhler is born

1860: Hannah Løvenskiold is born

1870: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Columbus"

1875: Rainer Maria Rilke is born

1879: Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty is born

1884: Alice Mary Smith dies

1899: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Sonate für Pianoforte und Violoncello"

1906: FP of Hjalmar Borgstrøm's "Vaarbrud en Drikkevise"

1906: FP of Hjalmar Borgstrøm's "Violinsonate / Violin Sonata"

1913: Johann Cilenšek is born

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Our Nell"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "By And By"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Innocent Ingenue Baby"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Walking Home With Angeline"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Gol-Durn!"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Little Villages"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Madrigal"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "My Old New England Home"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Names I Love To Hear"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Oh, You Lady!"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "The Cooney Country Fair"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "The Flapper"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "We Go To Church On Sunday"

1926: FP of George Gershwin's "Preludes For Piano"

1926: FP of George Gershwin's "Three Preludes for Piano"

1927: John Jeffreys is born

1929: Wilhelm Georg Berger is born

1930: Paul Heinz Dittrich is born

1930: Roman Ledeniov is born

1935: Johan Halvorsen dies

1938: Dina Appeldorn dies

1942: Fritz Löhner dies

1949: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Bläsertrio"

1953: Daniel Gregory Mason dies

1953: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Das Ende einer Welt"

1954: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Elegiac Sonnet"

1960: Walter Goehr dies

1976: Benjamin Britten dies

1983: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Cascando"

1984: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Triolet I"

1984: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Triolet II"

1989: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Konzert für Saxophon und Orchester"

1993: Frank Zappa dies

1994: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Agnus Dei"

1996: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Prozesse"

2000: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Stück für 2 Klaviere"

2000: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Dichotomie"

2007: FP of Michael Denhoff's "Zwei Stücke / Two Pieces"

2007: FP of Michael Denhoff's "Silence, et puis"

2012: Jonathan Harvey dies

2012: René Maillard dies

2016: Leonid Bashmakov dies

2016: Julia Gomelskaya dies