Classical Calendar: What happened on 12 February ?

1567: Thomas Campion is born

1639: Juan García de Salazar is born

1640: Michael Altenburg dies

1728: Agostino Steffani dies

1738: James Sherard dies

1743: FP of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's "Don Quichotte chez la Duchessa / Don Quixote at the Duchess'"

1752: Josef Reicha is born

1760: Jan Ladislav Dussek is born

1760: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Les Paladins"

1762: Laurent Belissen dies

1777: Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué is born

1779: Henrik Filip Johnsen dies

1791: FP of Tommaso Giordani's "The Distressed Knight, or The Enchanted Lady"

1797: Antoine Dauvergne dies

1799: Franz Xaver Duschek dies

1814: Pere Tintorer i Sagarra is born

1835: Raphael Dressler dies

1835: Auguste Mercadier is born

1857: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Croquefer ou Le Dernier des Paladins"

1879: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Sechs Lieder / Six Songs"

1883: Licinio Refice is born

1886: Michel Brusselmans is born

1889: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Herr Gott, des die Rache ist"

1894: Hans von Bülow dies

1896: Ambroise Thomas dies

1896: FP of Zdeněk Fibich's "Hedy"

1898: Roy Harris is born

1907: FP of Hakon Børresen's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1908: Julian Alexandrovich Scriabin is born

1909: FP of Ignaz Jan Paderewski's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1915: Emil Waldteufel dies

1916: Karl Schiske is born

1920: Sigismond Blumenfeld dies

1920: Émile Sauret dies

1921: FP of Marie François Maurice Emmanuel's "Cellosonate Nr. 1 / Cello Sonata No. 1"

1923: Mel Powell is born

1924: FP of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"

1926: Hans Moth dies

1928: James Cohn is born

1928: FP of Gustav Holst's "Egdon Heath"

1930: Gerhard Rühm is born

1933: Henri Duparc dies

1935: Manfred Weiss is born

1944: Juliusz Wolfsohn dies

1947: FP of Friedrich Schröder's "Nächte in Shanghai"

1950: Steve Hackett is born

1954: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Skaz o Kamennom Tsvetke [Сказ о Каменном Цветке] / The Tale of the Stone Flower"

1955: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Vier Lieder für Bariton und Klavier"

1959: George Antheil dies

1959: FP of Aribert Reimann's "Stoffreste"

1964: Fabian Müller is born

1970: André Souri dies

1972: FP of Joanna Bruzdowicz' "Kolonia karna"

1973: Benjamin Frankel dies

1979: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Konzert für Orchester"

1983: FP of Krassimir Kjurktschijski's "Kosiyat rog [Козият рог]"

1994: FP of Barbara Heller's "Studien für Flöte solo"

1999: FP of Samuel Adler's "Lux Perpetua"

1999: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Elégie"

2005: FP of Paul Patterson's "Tsunami"

2009: János Gyulai Gaál dies

2011: FP of Barbara Heller's "Stimmungen"

2013: Richard Orton dies

2017: FP of Barbara Heller's "Fliegender Vogel"

2022: William Kraft dies