Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 December ?
1562: Philipp Dulichius is born
1707: Charles Wesley is born
1753: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "Ifigenia in Aulide"
1768: FP of Niccolò Jommelli's "La schiava liberata"
1777: FP of Antonio Salieri's "La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo"
1779: FP of Joseph Haydn's "Symphonie Nr. 70 / Symphony No. 70"
1783: FP of Tommaso Giordani's "Gibraltar"
1783: FP of Tommaso Giordani's "The Haunted Castle"
1798: FP of Christian Kalkbrenner's "Olympie"
1804: FP of Luigi Cherubini's "Achille à Scyros"
1806: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Koulouf"
1833: Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain dies
1835: Johann Mederitsch dies
1842: Giuseppe Nicolini dies
1848: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Milda"
1858: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Das Mädchen von Elisonzo"
1861: Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz dies
1861: Edward Alexander Mac Dowell is born
1863: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Die Nonne und der Ritter"
1863: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Vor der Tür"
1863: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Wechsellied zum Tanze"
1869: Louis Moreau Gottschalk dies
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst"
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Es träumte mir"
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ach, wende diesen Blick"
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "In meiner Nächte Sehnen"
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Strahlt zuweilen auch ein mildes Licht"
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Die Schnur, die Perl' an Perle"
1872: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Unbewegte laue Luft"
1878: Heinrich Proch dies
1880: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Apajune der Wassermann"
1892: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 8 / Symphony No. 8"
1898: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Prélude / Prelude"
1899: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Streichquartett Nr. 1 / String Quartet No. 1"
1899: FP of Paul Lincke's "Im Reiche des Indra"
1903: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Zlatorog"
1905: Richard Sturzenegger is born
1910: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Valzer"
1912: FP of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek's "Schlemihl"
1919: Horatio William Parker dies
1926: FP of Leoš Janáček's "Več Makropulos / The Makropoulos Affair"
1926: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Jung Dithelm"
1926: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Waldeinsamkeit"
1926: FP of Heinrich Kaspar Schmid's "Der Tiroler Nachtwache"
1934: FP of Vítězslav Novák's "Podzimní symfonie"
1936: FP of Paul Abraham's "3:1 a szerelem javára"
1937: FP of Karl Weigl's "O Grille sing / O cricket sing"
1937: FP of Karl Weigl's "Fluch den Augen / Woe to eyes"
1937: FP of Karl Weigl's "O süßes Dunkel weit / O blessed darkness"
1949: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Sonate für Flöte und Klavier"
1957: Wilhelm Petersen dies
1963: Winfried Zillig dies
1967: Christopher Theofanidis is born
1974: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Quartett"
1979: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "The Great Seas"
1981: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Morning Sea"
1985: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Münchner Symphonie"
1990: Paul Tortelier dies
1997: FP of Altug Ünlü's "Instrumentalkadenz zum 2. Satz aus Mozarts KV 219 (Violinkonzert)"
1998: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Konzert für Flöte, Harfe und Orchester"
2001: Dimitris Dragatakis dies
2004: John W. Downey dies
2006: Daniel Pinkham dies