Classical Calendar: What happened on 10 December ?

1618: Giulio Caccini dies

1643: Johann Adam Reincken is born

1665: Tarquinio Merula dies

1718: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück"

1795: Caspar Kummer is born

1813: Errico Petrella is born

1822: César Franck is born

1823: Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner is born

1825: FP of François-Adrien Boieldieu's "La Dame blanche"

1861: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Roman comique"

1868: Louis Victor Saar is born

1869: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Brigands"

1870: Paul Büttner is born

1871: Charles Morac is born

1874: Friedrich August Belcke dies

1877: Federico Ricci dies

1879: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Das hohe Lied"

1882: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Gesang der Parzen"

1899: Lili Wieruszowski is born

1905: FP of Théodore Dubois' "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1908: Olivier Messiaen is born

1910: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "La fanciulla del West / The Girl of the Golden West"

1913: Morton Gould is born

1914: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Die Hermannsschlacht"

1916: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Toccata d-Moll"

1921: FP of Franco Alfano's "La leggenda di Sakuntala"

1921: FP of Gabriel Fauré's "Sonate N° 2 pour violoncelle et piano / Cello Sonata No. 2"

1925: Zdeněk Šesták is born

1936: Martha Mier is born

1937: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "An die Liebe"

1938: Mario Pilati dies

1938: Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is born

1939: Wilhelm Grosz dies

1942: Edwin Geist dies

1951: Milan Svoboda is born

1964: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Hommage à Stravinsky"

1965: Henry Dixon Cowell dies

1992: Bernard Reichel dies

2005: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Creth (Schaft 29)"

2005: FP of Carl Vine's "Die silberne Rose"

2009: Vytautas Klova dies

2020: Kenneth Alwyn dies