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