Classical Calendar: What happened on 23 December ?

1644: Tomás de Torrejón y Valesco is born

1689: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is born

1709: Jean-Noël Hamal is born

1745: Jan Dismas Zelenka dies

1783: Heinrich Alois Präger is born

1801: Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti is born

1806: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Violinkonzert / Violin Concerto"

1854: Carlo Yvon dies

1857: FP of Richard Wagner's "Träume"

1859: Richard Bartmuß is born

1869: FP of Alexis de Castillon's "Quatuor pour piano, violon, alto, et violoncelle / Piano Quartet"

1871: FP of Georges Bizet's "Finale von 'Roma'"

1876: Hans Moth is born

1878: Auguste Auspitz Kolár dies

1878: Auguste Kolár dies

1880: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Stabat Mater"

1891: Holger Simon Paulli dies

1893: Benedict Randhartinger dies

1893: FP of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel"

1896: Lucie Vellere is born

1898: Sergei Barsukov is born

1898: FP of Johann Strauss' "Katz und Maus"

1905: Árni Björnsson is born

1905: Amédée Borsari is born

1906: Ross Lee Finney is born

1913: Hans Henkemans is born

1921: FP of Emmerich Kálmán's "Die Bajadere"

1924: FP of Nicolae Bretan's "Golem Lásadása"

1925: Carlos Riesco Grez is born

1926: FP of Walter Kollo's "Nur Du"

1927: FP of Ernst Steffan's "Münchhausen"

1932: FP of Paul Abraham's "Ball im Savoy"

1932: FP of Fritz Kreisler's "Sissy"

1933: FP of Nico Dostal's "Clivia"

1937: FP of Paul Abraham's "Julia"

1941: Carlos Cruz de Castro is born

1942: Friedrich Schenker is born

1943: Ross Edwards is born

1945: Georges Aperghis is born

1950: Vincenzo Tommasini dies

1952: Hans Abrahamsen is born

1952: Alexander Brincken is born

1962: Pierre Berlioz dies

1967: Richard Flury dies

1972: FP of Gordon Dale's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1980: Alec Wilder dies

1980: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Konzert für Mandoline und kleines Orchester"

1981: Michael Em Walter is born

1982: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Hiljaisuus"

1988: Frida Kern dies

2004: John Duarte dies

2014: Jerzy Semkow dies

2015: Herbert Bielawa dies