Classical Calendar: What happened on 9 December ?

1549: Costanzo Antegnati is born

1634: Andreas Oswald is born

1643: Antoine de Boësset dies

1728: Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi is born

1745: Maddalena Laura Lombardini is born

1745: Maddalena Laura Sirmen is born

1754: Étienne Ozi is born

1770: Gottlieb Muffat dies

1787: Bernhard Joachim Hagen dies

1796: Emilie Zumsteeg is born

1813: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Romeo und Julia"

1828: FP of Jacques Fromental Halévy's "Clari"

1835: Rudolph Barth is born

1837: Emil Waldteufel is born

1842: FP of Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka's "Ruslan i Lyudmila [Руслан и Людмила] / Ruslan and Lyudmila"

1844: Franz Seraph Destouches dies

1859: Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton is born

1882: Jean-Baptiste André dies

1882: Joaquín Turina is born

1893: Paul Benoit is born

1894: Sophie Gräfin von Baudissin dies

1905: FP of Jenő Huszka's "Gül Baba"

1918: FP of George Gershwin's "Cupid"

1918: FP of George Gershwin's "Hong Kong"

1924: Bernard Zweers dies

1925: Eugène Gigout dies

1927: Pierre Henry is born

1938: William Thomas McKinley is born

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: I praise the tender flower"

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: I have loved flowers that fade"

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: My spirit sang all day"

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: Clear and gentle stream"

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: Nightingales"

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: Haste on, my joys!"

1938: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs: Wherefore to-night so full of care"

1939: Geoffrey Hanson is born

1942: FP of Aram Chatschaturjan's "Gayane [Гаяне]"

1942: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Madrigal Sonata"

1949: FP of Samuel Barber's "Sonata for Piano"

1952: Albert Glinsky is born

1953: Cornelis de Bondt is born

1953: Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen dies

1953: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Grand Fantasia and Toccata"

1966: Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin dies

1968: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Das Floß der Medusa"

1970: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Tre Pastelli"

1973: FP of Marta Ptaszyńska's "Arabesque"

1982: FP of Barbara Heller's "Variationen für Irith"

1985: Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling dies

1990: FP of Lamberto Gardelli's "Messa da Requiem"

2000: FP of Laurent Petitgirard's "Le Fou d'Elsa"

2004: FP of Paul Hindemith's "Klaviermusik mit Orchester"

2010: Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko dies

2024: Thomas Hertel dies