Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 February ?

1563: Hans Newsidler dies

1594: Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina dies

1669: Louis Marchand is born

1673: Caspar Förster dies

1714: Gottfried Homilius is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde"

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin"

1727: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ich habe genug"

1727: FP of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's "Un pazzo ne fa cento ovvero Don Chisciotte"

1762: FP of Thomas Augustine Arne's "Artaxerxes"

1779: Georg Heinrich Lux is born

1785: FP of Peter von Winter's "Der Bettelstudent"

1789: Armand-Louis Couperin dies

1789: Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer is born

1805: Georg Wichtl is born

1811: FP of E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Musik zu einem neuen Quodlibet"

1822: Jean-Baptiste Davaux dies

1826: FP of František Škroup's "Dráteník"

1837: Max Zenger is born

1840: Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray is born

1853: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Sourd ou L'Auberge pleine"

1861: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "La Circassienne"

1866: Léopold Aimon dies

1872: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Beata"

1873: Leo Fall is born

1874: FP of Albert Hermann Dietrich's "Konzert für Violine und Orchester"

1875: Fritz Kreisler is born

1879: Louis Thirion is born

1881: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Der Frühling"

1881: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Nachwirkung"

1882: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Klaviersonate Nr. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 2"

1883: Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin is born

1889: Carl Friedrich August von Hering dies

1890: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Symfonie č.8 / Symphony No. 8"

1892: Fritz Heinrich Klein is born

1894: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Zur Passionszeit"

1896: FP of Hippolyte Barbedette's "2me Sonate (Concertante) pour piano et violoncelle / Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano"

1902: Emanuil Manolov dies

1908: Renzo Rossellini is born

1908: Pavel Šivic is born

1918: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Klavierquartett / Piano Quartet"

1920: FP of Igor Fjodorowitsch Strawinski's "Pesn Solovya [Песнь Соловья] / The Song of the Nightingale"

1921: Luigi Mancinelli dies

1921: FP of Nicolae Bretan's "Luceafărul / The Evening Star"

1925: Gustav Hägg dies

1925: Michel Philippot is born

1926: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Masks"

1927: Richard Maxfield is born

1929: Reiner Bredemeyer is born

1941: Serge Tcherepnin is born

1943: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Fantazie a toccata / Fantasy and Toccata"

1944: Sir Andrew Davis is born

1954: Theodor Rogalski dies

1954: Daniel Weissberg is born

1956: FP of Samuel Barber's "Medea's Dance of Vengeance"

1956: FP of Samuel Barber's "Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance"

1960: Jenő Huszka dies

1961: Oded Zehavi is born

1962: FP of Nancy van de Vate's "Lento"

1963: Nikolaus Moritz Mostler dies

1967: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Inventionen für Orchester"

1970: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Süss verendet die entzückte Flöte"

1974: Jean Absil dies

1977: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Sonate für Solo-Violine"

1978: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Symphony No. 1"

1989: FP of Helmut Rogl's "monoTONie in 300 takten"

1999: Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh dies

1999: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Kimasen lento"

2000: Yolande Uyttenhove dies

2002: FP of Philip Glass' "Symphony No. 6"

2003: Lou Harrison dies

2013: FP of Alois Bröder's "The Wives of the Dead"

2014: Gerd Albrecht dies