Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 December ?

1642: Johann Christoph Bach is born

1731: Franz Xaver Duschek is born

1733: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten!"

1746: FP of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's "Diana vendicata"

1750: FP of Georg Christoph Wagenseil's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1755: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "L'innocenza giustificata"

1756: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Il re pastore"

1761: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Le Cadi dupé / The Cheated Cadi"

1785: Antonio Mazzoni dies

1791: Peter von Lindpaintner is born

1813: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Wellingtons Sieg"

1813: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphonie Nr. 7 / Symphony No. 7"

1849: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "Luisa Miller"

1850: FP of Franz Schubert's "Streichquartett Nr. 15 / String Quartet No. 15"

1855: Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß-Köstritz is born

1865: Jean Sibelius is born

1877: Paul Ladmirault is born

1877: FP of Edmund Kretschmer's "Heinrich der Löwe"

1882: Manuel Maria Ponce is born

1885: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Virga Jesse"

1887: Miska Hauser dies

1890: Bohuslav Martinů is born

1899: FP of Richard Strauss' "Liebe"

1899: FP of Richard Strauss' "Altdeutsches Schlachtlied"

1900: FP of Jules Massenet's "Phèdre"

1905: Ernst Hermann Meyer is born

1905: FP of Hugo Kaun's "Sir John Falstaff"

1919: Mieczysław Samuilovitch Vainberg is born

1920: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Ukolébavky / Lullabies"

1920: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Tři písně / Three songs"

1924: Franz Xaver Scharwenka dies

1926: FP of George Gershwin's "Oh, Kay!"

1926: FP of George Gershwin's "Oh, Kay!"

1926: FP of Ethel Smyth's "Sonata for cello and piano"

1931: Hillar Kareva is born

1932: FP of Johanna Senfter's "Drei Klavierstücke / Three Piano Pieces"

1934: Bernhard Sekles dies

1939: Ernest Schelling dies

1945: Alexander Ilyich Siloti dies

1946: Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond dies

1950: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Sinfonia concertante Nr. 2"

1956: Edgar Bainton dies

1968: Gerhard Strecke dies

1969: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "3 Konzertstudien"

1972: Richard Göhle dies

1974: Elena Langer is born

1975: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Spektrum"

1987: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Trio mobile"

1990: FP of György Kurtág's "Doppelkonzert / Double Concerto"

1991: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Nuppu"

1995: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

1996: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Heidelberg"

1997: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Čtyři písně na texty české lidové poezie / Four Songs on Czech Folk Poetry"

1997: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Streichquartett Nr. 3 / String Quartet No. 3"

2004: FP of Carlo Galante's "Notturno a Milano"

2005: Donald Martino dies

2011: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Orest"

2013: Ernest Sauter dies

2013: Sándor Szokolay dies

2013: FP of Barbara Heller's "Variationen über das Weihnachtslied "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging" "

2014: Knut Nystedt dies