Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 January ?
1712: Jacopo Puccini is born
1726: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "Cunegonda"
1748: Emanuel Aloys Förster is born
1754: FP of Giovanni Battista Sammartini's "Lucio in Vero"
1790: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Così fan tutte"
1795: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach dies
1796: FP of Johann Simon Mayr's "La Lodoiska"
1798: Christian Gottlob Neefe dies
1798: FP of Vicente Martín y Soler's "La festa del villaggio"
1806: Christian Wilhelm Westerhoff dies
1826: Fanny Hünerwadel is born
1832: João de Deus Castro Lobo dies
1835: Wassili Wassiljewitsch Besekirski is born
1847: FP of Franz Adolf Berwald's "Ein ländliches Verlobungsfest in Schweden"
1850: FP of Robert Schumann's "Adagio und Allegro"
1858: FP of Errico Petrella's "Jone, o L'ultimo giorno di Pompei "
1870: Cesare Pugni dies
1877: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Docteur Ox"
1884: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Gasparone"
1884: FP of Ethel Smyth's "String Quintet E-Dur"
1890: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Crisantemi"
1893: Richard Maux is born
1893: FP of Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow's "Serenade g-Moll"
1907: FP of Toivo Kuula's "Eteläpohjalainen Sarja No.1 / South Ostrobothnian Suite No. 1"
1910: Theodor Holterdorf is born
1910: Marijan Lipovšek is born
1911: Norbert Schultze is born
1911: FP of Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier"
1914: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Der sterbende Schwan"
1919: FP of Louis Vierne's "Symphonie / Symphony"
1921: Johannes Driessler is born
1921: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Dandelion"
1922: Luigi Denza dies
1935: FP of Paul Abraham's "Viki"
1940: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Dies natalis"
1948: Ignaz Friedmann dies
1951: Jerry Gerber is born
1951: FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's "Violin Concerto No. 2"
1956: Steve Dobrogosz is born
1972: Vladimir Michailovich Jurovski dies
1980: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Elegy of the Fowers"
1981: Gustavo Dudamel is born
1986: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Solo I"
1993: Kenneth Gaburo dies
1994: Lejaren Arthur Hiller dies
1997: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Titbits"
1998: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Sieben Portraits"
1998: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Himmelsreichlieder"
1998: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "La solitude du Pierrot"
2000: Simeon Pironkoff dies
2000: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "Clinamen / Nodus"
2003: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Messe pour orgue"
2006: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Nen V"
2008: FP of Michael Denhoff's "Licht(e)stücke"
2011: FP of Fabian Müller's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"
2013: Hans Ulrich Lehmann dies
2013: Edwin London dies
2013: FP of Barbara Heller's "Herbstmusik"
2015: John Schlenck dies