Classical Calendar: What happened on 16 February ?

1709: Charles Avison is born

1710: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Caio Gracco"

1711: FP of Christoph Graupner's "Telemach"

1726: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "La fede tradita e vendicata"

1728: Aurora von Königsmarck dies

1753: Giacomo Facco dies

1774: Pierre Rode is born

1803: Giovanni Punto dies

1803: Johann Wenzel Stich dies

1822: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Zelmira"

1825: Georg Gerson dies

1826: Franz von Holstein is born

1829: François-Joseph Gossec dies

1832: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Der Lastträger an der Themse"

1835: FP of Richard Wagner's "Columbus"

1835: FP of Richard Wagner's "Columbus"

1839: Ludwig Berger dies

1847: Philipp Scharwenka is born

1848: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Griseldis"

1854: Oscar Fetrás is born

1864: Václav Jindřich Veit dies

1866: Johann Strauss is born

1868: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Sonety krymskie / Crimean Sonnets"

1870: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Vergine di Kermo"

1873: FP of Antônio Carlos Gomes' "Fosca"

1874: Max Lewandowsky is born

1877: Sergei Bortkiewicz is born

1878: Selim Palmgren is born

1882: Julián Arcas dies

1883: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Spanisches Lied"

1886: Louis Köhler dies

1887: Margarete Schweikert is born

1890: FP of Alfredo Catalani's "Loreley"

1892: FP of Jules Massenet's "Werther"

1895: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Gugliemo Ratcliff"

1907: Alec Wilder is born

1910: Yevgeny Golubev is born

1914: Helmut Bräutigam is born

1919: Gräfin Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach dies

1927: FP of Franz Lehár's "Der Zarewitsch"

1930: FP of Nicolas Nabokov's "Symphony No. 1"

1933: Fridolin Dallinger is born

1936: Eliahu Inbal is born

1938: John Corigliano is born

1939: Georg Schmöhe is born

1949: FP of Sándor Veress' "Térszili Katicza"

1963: László Lajtha dies

1966: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Etüde für Bläserquintett"

1968: Healey Willan dies

1969: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Novenaria"

1973: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Visionen"

1978: Walter Simon Huber dies

1980: FP of John McCabe's "Die Fenster / The Windows"

1985: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke"

1986: Yuri Ter-Osipov dies

1988: Jean Carignan dies

1991: Bülent Tarcan dies

1997: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Konzert für Fagott, Kontrafagott und Orchester"

1997: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Duo"

1999: Necil Käzim Akses dies

1999: Johan Kvandal dies

2000: FP of Barbara Heller's "Für vier Hände"

2000: FP of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "The Silver Tassie"

2001: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Lamento"

2005: Marcello Viotti dies

2013: Eric Ericson dies