Classical Calendar: What happened on 5 February ?

1695: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Muzio Scevola"

1705: Jean Gilles dies

1728: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Vergnügte Pleißen-Stadt"

1732: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Sosarme, Re di Media / Sosarmes, King of Medes"

1748: Christian Gottlob Neefe is born

1782: FP of Peter von Winter's "Helena und Paris"

1787: FP of Giuseppe Gazzaniga's "Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra / Don Giovanni or The Stone Guest"

1810: Ole Bull is born

1837: James Cervetto dies

1848: Luigi Mancinelli is born

1862: Felipe Villanueva is born

1863: FP of Woldemar Bargiel's "Der Herr ist mein Hirte"

1866: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Barbe-bleue"

1881: Wilhelm Hohn is born

1887: Modesta Sanginés Uriarte dies

1887: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello"

1898: FP of Gustav Holst's "Two Brown Eyes"

1903: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Im April"

1907: Ludwig Thuille dies

1909: Grażyna Bacewicz is born

1909: FP of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Javotte"

1916: FP of Dora Pejačević's "Klavierkonzert / Piano Concerto"

1918: Kara Karayev is born

1921: Sir John Pritchard is born

1922: FP of Joseph Marx' "Eine Herbstsymphonie"

1926: André Gedalge dies

1929: Luc Ferrari is born

1930: Ulf Söderblom is born

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Persephone"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Things Lovelier"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Now in these Fairylands"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "A Little Music"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "The Floral Bandit"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Envoi"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "The Dream-City"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Journey's End"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "In the Street of Lost Time"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Rhyme"

1930: FP of Gustav Holst's "Betelgeuse"

1932: Ketil Vea is born

1932: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Klavierquintett / Piano Quintet"

1938: FP of Amédée Borsari's "Sonate pour piano et violoncelle / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1939: Evžen Zámečník is born

1942: Robert Amson dies

1943: Gunner Møller Pedersen is born

1943: Ivan Tcherepnin is born

1944: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Prinzessin Turandot"

1955: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Cellokonzert Nr. 2 / Cello Concerto No. 2"

1958: FP of Michael Tippett's "Symphony no. 2"

1962: Ricard Lamonte de Grignon i Ribas dies

1962: Jacques Ibert dies

1964: Michael Amann is born

1966: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "Prelude and Fugue"

1973: Markus W. Kropp is born

1982: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Sonatine"

1995: FP of Philip Glass' "Symphony No. 3"

1995: FP of John Palmer's "Concertino / Concert Piece"

1995: FP of John Palmer's "legend"

2000: Barbara Pentland dies

2006: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Three Songs of Ascents"

2006: FP of Florentine Mulsant's "Symphonie n°1 pour cordes"

2013: Egil Hovland dies