Classical Calendar: What happened on 25 December ?

1583: Orlando Gibbons is born

1696: Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar is born

1711: Johann Nikolaus Hanff dies

1711: Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville is born

1719: Benedetto Vinaccesi dies

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ"

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Messe / Mass"

1725: Esteban Salas y Castro is born

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens"

1728: Johann Adam Hiller is born

1741: Anton Zimmermann is born

1745: Chevalier de Saint-Georges is born

1775: Antun Sorkočević is born

1810: Anton Ferdinand Tietz dies

1810: Anton Ferdinand Titz dies

1815: Temistocle Solera is born

1815: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ouvertüre / Overture"

1830: FP of Richard Wagner's "Paukenschlag-Ouvertüre"

1831: Johann von Herbeck is born

1831: FP of Richard Wagner's "Konzertouvertüre Nr. 1 / Concert Overture No. 1"

1833: FP of Pierre Louis Hus-Desforges' "Messe / Mass"

1843: Gustav Jensen is born

1845: Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach dies

1870: FP of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried-Idyll"

1872: Amédée de Montrichard is born

1873: FP of Richard Wagner's "Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosels Geburtstag"

1874: FP of Hermann Goetz' "Symphonie / Symphony"

1874: FP of Richard Wagner's "Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosels Geburtstag"

1880: FP of Richard Wagner's "Ihr Kinder, geschwinde, geschwinde"

1882: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Missa / Mass"

1885: Mana-Zucca is born

1896: Fernande Decruck is born

1908: Jan Seidel is born

1910: Richard Bartmuß dies

1914: Bernhard Stavenhagen dies

1921: Hans Huber dies

1923: Richard Barth dies

1927: FP of Eduard Künneke's "Die blonde Liselott"

1933: FP of Eduard Künneke's "Die lockende Flamme / The Alluring Flame"

1934: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1935: Günter Friedrichs is born

1936: Pierre Maurice dies

1936: FP of George Gershwin's "By Strauss"

1937: Jeannot Heinen is born

1938: David Borden is born

1938: FP of Walter Kollo's "Das Schiff der schönen Frauen"

1945: Michail Jurowski is born

1949: Bernhard Hemmerle is born

1949: Hugo Rüter dies

1956: Bruno Karrer is born

1958: Lorre Lynn Trytten is born

1977: Charles Chaplin dies

1978: FP of François Dompierre's "Klavierkonzert / Piano Concerto"

1982: Marijn Simons is born

1982: Vally Weigl dies

1988: Yevgeny Golubev dies

1995: Marijan Lipovšek dies

2007: Hans Otte dies

2015: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Im Anfang"