Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 February ?

1586: Jacob Praetorius is born

1667: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Le Sicilien, ou L'Amour peintre"

1708: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Mario fuggitivo"

1709: Giuseppe Torelli dies

1726: Jacob Schuback is born

1740: Vincent Lübeck dies

1741: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry is born

1765: Joseph Eybler is born

1797: Johann Friedrich Doles dies

1810: Norbert Burgmüller is born

1821: Paul Anton Wineberger dies

1823: Charles Manry is born

1828: Antonio Cagnoni is born

1863: FP of Georges Bizet's "Vasco da Gama"

1864: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Die Rheinnixen"

1872: Carl Henze is born

1874: FP of Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski's "Boris Godunov [Борис Годунов]"

1881: Agathon Billeter dies

1888: Matthijs Vermeulen is born

1909: Mieczysław Karłowicz dies

1920: Richard Dehmel dies

1925: FP of George Gershwin's "Short Story"

1932: John Williams is born

1936: FP of Gian Francesco Malipiero's "Giulio Cesare / Julius Caesar"

1939: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Orchestersuite Nr. 4"

1940: Margaret Brouwer is born

1943: José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado is born

1943: Sabin Pautza is born

1967: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Quartett"

1970: Lotta Wennäkoski is born

1977: Eivind Groven dies

1977: Josef Schelb dies

1987: FP of Mikis Theodorakis' "Kostas Karyotakis [Κώστας Καρυωτάκης] / The Metamorphoses of Dionysus"

1988: FP of Barbara Heller's "Briefe, ein Improvisationskonzept"

1992: FP of Kurt Schwertsik's "Frida Kahlo"

1993: FP of Barbara Heller's "Domino"

1994: Witold Lutosławski dies

1998: FP of Philip Glass' "Days and Nights in Rocinha"

2001: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Ennen kuin me kaikki olemme hukkuneet"

2003: Clara Reichard-Gross dies

2005: Helmut Eder dies

2006: Akira Ifukube dies

2006: Fritz Leitermeyer dies

2007: FP of Franz Xaver Frenzel's "Festliche Symphonie in B"

2007: FP of Fabian Müller's "Vokalise"

2011: Johannes Somary dies