Classical Calendar: What happened on 6 February ?

1497: Johannes Ockeghem dies

1695: André Chéron is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin"

1725: Johann Philipp Krieger dies

1737: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Alessandro in Sidone"

1760: FP of Niccolò Piccinni's "La Cecchina, ossia La buona figliuola / Cecchina, or The Good-Natured Girl"

1803: Gasparo Angiolini dies

1811: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Se il mio ben"

1812: Berthold Damcke is born

1813: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Tancredi"

1818: Henry Charles Litolff is born

1820: Giovan Battista Grazioli dies

1822: FP of Angelo Maria Benincori's "N. Isouard: Aladin ou la Lampe merveilleuse"

1829: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Jeune Propriétaire et le vieux fermier"

1830: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "I pazzi per progetto"

1865: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Trauungslied"

1872: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Fiolinkonsert / Violin Concerto"

1881: Karl Weigl is born

1881: FP of Bolko Graf von Hochberg's "Der Wärwolf"

1901: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Durch Nacht zum Licht"

1903: FP of Hugo Kaun's "Im Urwald"

1907: FP of Richard Strauss' "Bardengesang"

1913: FP of Leon Jessel's "Die beiden Husaren"

1915: FP of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "La candidata"

1919: FP of George Gershwin's "I Was So Young (You Were So Beautiful)"

1919: FP of George Gershwin's "There's More To The Kiss Than The X-X-X"

1923: Maurice Le Roux is born

1929: Siegfried Ochs dies

1932: FP of Casimir von Pászthory's "Die drei gerechten Kammacher"

1935: FP of Gustav Holst's "Scherzo for Orchestra"

1936: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Two Sonnets: When I consider how my life is spent"

1936: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Two Sonnets: How soon hath Time"

1941: Stephen Albert is born

1946: Eduard Behm dies

1947: Luigi Russolo dies

1956: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Gitarrenkonzert / Guitar Concerto"

1957: Matthew Best is born

1962: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Der weise Schuhu"

1963: Werner Josten dies

1977: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Pietá"

1979: Hellmuth Pattenhausen dies

1984: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Musik"

1993: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Strati"

1993: FP of Howard Blake's "The Leeds"

1994: Ignace Strasfogel dies

1994: Norman René Del Mar dies

1997: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Symphonie Nr. 10 / Symphony No. 10"

2004: FP of Gerald Eckert's "pfadlos die Nacht"

2020: Nello Santi dies

2022: George Crumb dies

2023: Siegfried Heinrich dies

2024: Seiji Ozawa dies