Classical Calendar: What happened on 20 October ?

1676: Christopher Gibbons dies

1685: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Le temple de la paix"

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben"

1740: Isabelle de Charrière is born

1740: Belle van Zuylen is born

1792: Anton Bernhard Fürstenau is born

1797: FP of Franz Anton Dimmler's "Der Guckkasten"

1797: FP of Franz Anton Dimmler's "Der Schatzgräber"

1825: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Opferlied"

1842: FP of Richard Wagner's "Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen / Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes"

1846: Johan Amberg is born

1847: FP of Cesare Pugni's "La Fille de marbre / The Girl of Marble"

1859: FP of Wenzel Heinrich Veit's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1860: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Streichsextett Nr. 1 / String Sextet No. 1"

1870: Michael William Balfe dies

1873: August Adelburg dies

1874: Charles Ives is born

1883: Alexander Abramovich Krejn is born

1890: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1897: Adolph Deutsch is born

1902: Kurt Overhoff is born

1906: FP of Franz Lehár's "Der Schlüssel zum Paradies"

1911: FP of Jean Cras' "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1912: Roger Sacheverell Coke is born

1912: Miroslav Příhoda is born

1912: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Ödipus auf Kolonos"

1918: Joseph Boulnois dies

1923: Robert Craft is born

1926: FP of Ethel Smyth's "Entente cordiale"

1927: FP of Gerhard Frommel's "Neun Gedichte aus 'Sänge eines fahrenden Spielmanns' von Stefan George"

1931: Emánuel Moór dies

1937: Emil Söchting dies

1940: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Quintett für Klavier, 2 Violinen, Bratsche und Cello"

1944: Gabriel Grovlez dies

1944: Franz Eugen Klein dies

1945: Thomas Pasatieri is born

1946: Rumen Bayraktarov is born

1953: FP of Carl Orff's "Astutuli"

1957: Andrzej Dziadek is born

1957: FP of Josef Haas' "Die Worte des Glaubens"

1959: FP of Barbara Heller's "Streichquartett / String Quartet"

1966: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Depression"

1966: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Variations"

1970: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Dialoge"

1978: FP of Sándor Balassa's "Az ajtón kívül / The Man Outside"

1980: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Leib- und Seelensongs"

1989: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Im"

1992: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "G. Bizet: Hier an dem Herzen treu geborgen"

2004: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Naxos Quartet No. 5"

2004: FP of Olov Olofsson's "700 dagar"

2008: Sirvart Karamanuk dies

2023: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Ich bitte"