Classical Calendar: What happened on 1 February ?

1606: Guillaume Costeley dies

1626: Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo dies

1673: Alessandro Marcello is born

1687: Johann Adam Birkenstock is born

1690: Francesco Maria Veracini is born

1701: Johan Joachim Agrell is born

1779: Nikolaus Freiherr von Krufft is born

1794: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "La Prise de Toulon"

1796: FP of Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini's "Li puntigli delle donne"

1801: Adolf Fredrik Lindblad is born

1816: Rudolf Hirsch is born

1818: Giuseppe Gazzaniga dies

1821: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Sagt, woher stammt Liebeslust?"

1824: Maria Theresia von Paradis dies

1828: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Ali Pascha von Janina oder Die Franzosen in Albanien"

1840: FP of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Klaviertrio Nr. 1 / Piano Trio No. 1"

1869: Julius Conus is born

1871: Alexander Nikolayevich Serov dies

1875: William Sterndale Bennett dies

1879: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Boccaccio"

1879: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Norsk rapsodi nr. 4 / Norwegian Rhapsody No. 4"

1888: FP of Benjamin Louis Paul Godard's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1889: Josef Gung'l dies

1889: FP of Richard Strauss' "Festmarsch"

1892: Rudolf Mengelberg is born

1896: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "La Bohème / The Bohemians"

1899: FP of Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow's "Musik zu Alexei Tolstois Tragödie "Zar Boris""

1901: Hippolyte Barbedette dies

1902: Reinhold Fleischer dies

1902: Langston Hughes is born

1902: Salomon Jadassohn dies

1907: Camargo Guarnieri is born

1907: Sándor Veress is born

1908: Edward Staempfli is born

1910: Otto Julius Bierbaum dies

1913: György Geszler is born

1918: FP of Franz Lehár's "Wo die Lerche singt"

1921: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Tempest"

1923: Ursula Mamlok is born

1929: August Halm dies

1935: Donald Young Sur is born

1952: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Rondo vom goldenen Kalb"

1954: Vittorio Gnecchi dies

1959: Werner Steinmetz is born

1971: Mikołaj Górecki is born

1981: Ernst Pepping dies

1981: Geirr Tveitt dies

1983: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Orgelkonzert / Organ Concerto"

1989: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Strathclyde Concerto No. 2"

1990: Peter Racine Fricker dies

2004: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Aristaeus"

2005: Franco Mannino dies

2007: Gian Carlo Menotti dies

2007: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

2009: Lukas Foss dies

2018: Alan Stout dies