Classical Calendar: What happened on 22 December ?

1723: Carl Friedrich Abel is born

1738: Jean-Joseph Mouret dies

1745: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Les Fêtes de Ramire"

1796: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Viinhøsten eller: Hvem fører Bruden hiem?"

1802: Ludwig Wilhelm Reuling is born

1805: Gustav Krug is born

1808: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fantasie / Fantasy"

1808: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Messe / Mass"

1808: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

1808: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphonie Nr. 6 / Symphony No. 6"

1819: Franz Abt is born

1819: FP of Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini's "Olympie / Olympia"

1821: Giovanni Bottesini is born

1829: FP of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde / The Return from Abroad"

1837: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Zar und Zimmermann"

1837: FP of Richard Wagner's "Gebet"

1840: Izydor Lotto is born

1846: Andreas Hallén is born

1847: Bernhard Köhler is born

1848: Herman Emil Hutter is born

1853: Teresa Carreño is born

1858: Giacomo Puccini is born

1866: Mieczysław Surzyński is born

1869: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Wie bist du, meine Königin"

1873: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Fünf Ophelia Lieder"

1874: Johann Peter Pixis dies

1874: Franz Schmidt is born

1875: Antoine Mariotte is born

1875: FP of Ignaz Brüll's "Das goldene Kreuz"

1883: Edgar Varèse is born

1885: Joseph Deems Taylor is born

1894: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Der Probekuss"

1896: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Nordlicht oder Der rote Graf"

1900: Alan Bush is born

1910: Jacques Rensburg dies

1921: Robert Kurka is born

1925: Thomas Christian David is born

1928: FP of Walter Kollo's "Jettchen Gebert"

1934: FP of Kurt Weill's "Marie Galante"

1937: FP of Rudolf Kattnigg's "Balkanliebe"

1947: FP of Edmund Eysler's "Wiener Musik"

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Duett Nr. 1 für Violine und Viola"

1948: Lubomyr Melnyk is born

1950: Julius Weismann dies

1950: FP of Ernst Toch's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1952: Vincas Bacevičius dies

1960: FP of Samuel Barber's "Dïe Natali"

1964: FP of George Gershwin's "Phoebe"

1964: FP of George Gershwin's "Sophia"

1964: FP of George Gershwin's "All The Livelong Day (And The Long, Long Night)"

1964: FP of George Gershwin's "I'm A Poached Egg"

1968: Emre Araci is born

1977: Johann Nepomuk David dies

1977: Fritz Werner dies

1991: Ernst Krenek dies

1999: Marcel Landowski dies

1999: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Violin Concerto (Song of Grievous Light)"

2006: Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya dies

2013: FP of Barbara Heller's "Vom Himmel hoch..."

2014: FP of Matthias Georg Kendlinger's "Freiheits-Marsch"

2015: John Duffy dies

2019: Edward Pałłasz dies