Classical Calendar: What happened on 19 December ?

1676: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault is born

1685: Carlo Antonio Fedeli dies

1703: FP of Domenico Scarlatti's "Il Giustino"

1709: FP of Giacomo Facco's "Il Faramondo"

1710: FP of Giacomo Facco's "Le regine di Macedonia"

1721: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Il Floridante"

1728: FP of Francesco Corradini's "El emperador Oton en un real sitio cerca de Roma"

1738: FP of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's "Temistocle"

1739: FP of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's "Adriano in Siria"

1749: Francesco Antonio Bonporti dies

1751: Giuseppe Giordani is born

1753: Juan Manuel de la Puente dies

1773: FP of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf's "La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l' Ester"

1802: John Ella is born

1817: Charles Dancla is born

1825: George Frederick Bristow is born

1830: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Johann Adam Hiller: Die Jagd"

1833: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Der Ring des Glücks oder Die Quellenfürstin im Alpentale"

1850: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Jouer de flûte"

1854: Robert Vollstedt is born

1864: Adolf Sandberger is born

1879: Otto Olsson is born

1881: FP of Jules Massenet's "Hérodiade"

1882: Walter Braunfels is born

1886: Andreas Johann Lorenz Oechsner dies

1888: Fritz Reiner is born

1890: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Pikovaya dama [Пиковая дама] / The Queen of Spades"

1894: Paul Dessau is born

1895: FP of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Die sieben Geislein"

1903: FP of Umberto Giordano's "Siberia"

1907: Fried Walter is born

1915: FP of Botho Sigwart Graf zu Eulenburg's "Die Lieder des Euripides"

1916: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Heroische Ouvertüre / Heroic Overture"

1916: FP of Karl Weigl's "Erscheinung / Vision"

1916: FP of Karl Weigl's "Beatrix"

1916: FP of Karl Weigl's "Das Abendlied / Evening Song"

1919: FP of Robert Amson's "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1919: FP of Joseph Boulnois' "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for cello and piano"

1923: FP of André Lermyte's "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1928: Michael Hurd is born

1932: Aubert Lemeland is born

1932: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet"

1937: Nikolai Badinski is born

1937: Osvaldas Balakauskas is born

1938: Karel Svoboda is born

1941: Peter Herrmann is born

1943: Otto Barblan dies

1944: William Christie is born

1947: Jean-Louis Florentz is born

1951: John Buckley is born

1957: FP of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man"

1967: Rebecca Saunders is born

1972: FP of George Rochberg's "Electrikaleidoscope"

1976: FP of Benjamin Britten's "String Quartet No. 3"

1991: Ermano Maggini dies

1991: FP of Annette Schlünz' "ACH, Es..."

2004: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Am Gürtel Orions"

2013: FP of Barbara Heller's "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging"

2015: Kurt Masur dies