Classical Calendar: What happened on 7 February ?

1662: FP of Francesco Cavalli's "Ercole amante / Hercules in Love"

1662: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "L'Hercule amoureux"

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe"

1743: Lodovico Giustini dies

1748: Étienne Bernard Joseph Barrière is born

1753: Giovanni Alberto Ristori dies

1779: William Boyce dies

1786: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Der Schauspieldirektor / The Impresario"

1786: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Prima la musica e poi le parole"

1823: Richard Genée is born

1827: Franz Anton Dimmler dies

1828: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ouvertüre I zur Oper 'Leonore'"

1830: Marcos Portugal dies

1832: FP of Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante's "I normanni a Parigi"

1847: Ernst Frank is born

1860: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Hrabina / The Countess"

1862: František Škroup dies

1867: Friedrich Wickenhausser is born

1870: Franz Dannehl is born

1870: Cornelis Dopper is born

1871: Wilhelm Stenhammar is born

1875: Erkki Melartin is born

1875: FP of Filippo Marchetti's "Gustavo Wasa"

1877: Feliks Nowowiejski is born

1882: FP of Antonio Smareglia's "Bianca da Cervia"

1888: Franz Lehar (senior) dies

1906: FP of Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi's "Der Bach mit seinem Rauschen"

1907: FP of Jules Massenet's "Thérèse"

1912: Alfred Desenclos is born

1918: Alexander Sergeievich Taneyev dies

1924: FP of Hilda Sehested's "Pathetique Morceau"

1925: Marius Constant is born

1925: FP of Suzanne Demarquez' "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1926: Pierre Villette is born

1927: Laurie Johnson is born

1929: FP of Kurt Weill's "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik"

1932: Baldur Böhme is born

1936: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Oidipus"

1937: Gottfried Huppertz dies

1938: Raymond R. Twomey is born

1941: FP of Samuel Barber's "Concerto for Violin"

1944: Antoni Wit is born

1945: Aldo Finzi dies

1945: Fredric Kroll is born

1953: Wolfgang von Schweinitz is born

1953: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Ženitba / The Marriage"

1965: Viggo Brodersen dies

1966: Leopold van der Pals dies

1967: FP of Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Wlassow's "Asely [Асель] / Assel"

1969: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Interpretations"

1973: FP of Nicolas Nabokov's "Love's Labour's Lost"

1979: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Footfalls"

1996: Boris Tschaikowsky dies

1997: FP of Arthur Butterworth's "String Quartet"

2003: FP of Arvo Pärt's "Lamentate"

2006: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Ein Edelstein in einer einfachen Einfassung Nr. 1"

2008: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Variation über einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli"

2010: FP of Hermann Seidl's "im dunklen licht"