Classical Calendar: What happened on 30 December ?

1566: Alessandro Piccinini is born

1678: William Croft is born

1681: Antonio Sartorio dies

1714: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn"

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende"

1737: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Oracolo in Messenia"

1749: Anton Kraft is born

1756: Paul Wranitzky is born

1773: FP of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's "Céphale et Procris ou L'Amour conjugal"

1789: Bernard Aymable Dupuy dies

1797: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Gulnare"

1821: Angelo Maria Benincori dies

1835: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda"

1846: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Robert Bruce"

1850: Wilhelm Rudnick is born

1852: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "La Faridondaine"

1853: Victor François Desvignes dies

1853: André Messager is born

1859: Josef Bohuslav Foerster is born

1871: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Die Schwälble ziehet fort"

1877: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1883: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Quartett Nr. 4 für zwei Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncell [Streichquartett Nr. 4] / String Quartet No. 4"

1884: Karl Heinrich David is born

1884: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 7 / Symphony No. 7"

1888: Ilse Fromm-Michaels is born

1889: Giuseppe Apolloni dies

1902: August Blank is born

1904: Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky is born

1905: FP of Franz Lehár's "Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow"

1906: FP of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Bübchens Weihnachtstraum"

1910: Paul Bowles is born

1913: Svend Simon Schultz is born

1919: Sir David Willcocks is born

1925: Rudolf Braun dies

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Cossack Love Song (Don't Forget Me)"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Midnight Bells"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Song Of The Flame"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "The Signal"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Vodka"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "You Are You"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Far Away"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Tar-Tar"

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Women's Work Is Never Done"

1925: FP of Oskar Nedbal's "Donna Gloria"

1930: Nancy van de Vate is born

1932: Harrison Leslie Adams is born

1938: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Romeo i Dzhulyetta [Ромео и Джульетта] / Romeo and Juliet"

1943: Rolf Gehlhaar is born

1946: Charles Wakefield Cadman dies

1946: Genevieve Calame is born

1952: Tina Davidson is born

1954: Stephen Jaffe is born

1958: FP of Jiří Pauer's "Zuzana Vojířová"

1959: Antonio Pappano is born

1962: Paavo Järvi is born

1973: Henri Büsser dies

1976: FP of Udo Zimmermann's "Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin"

1979: Richard Charles Rodgers dies

1994: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Die Sonne sinkt"

1997: FP of Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin's "Concerto dolce"

1999: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Kronprinz Friedrich"

2000: FP of Ada Gentile's "Cantata per la pace"

2011: Richard Lainhart dies

2014: Patrick Gowers dies

2021: Gottfried Michael Koenig dies