Classical Calendar: What happened on 17 February ?

1652: Gregorio Allegri dies

1653: Arcangelo Corelli is born

1696: Ernst Gottlieb Baron is born

1728: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Siroe, re di Persia"

1732: Louis Marchand dies

1734: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Olimpiade"

1747: Narciso Casanovas is born

1757: Antonio Calegari is born

1796: Giovanni Pacini is born

1809: Adolphe Clair Le Carpentier is born

1820: Henri Vieuxtemps is born

1832: FP of Richard Wagner's "König Enzio"

1832: FP of Richard Wagner's "König Enzio"

1837: FP of Richard Wagner's "Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preußen"

1841: Ferdinando Carulli dies

1850: Anton Urspruch is born

1856: Heinrich Heine dies

1859: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera / A Masked Ball"

1862: Edward German is born

1876: Patrice Devanchy is born

1876: Heinrich Gottwald dies

1877: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Klaviertrio Nr. 1 / Piano Trio No. 1"

1883: Napoléon Coste dies

1886: FP of Romualdo Marenco's "Amor"

1887: Leevi Madetoja is born

1891: FP of Sigismond Stojowski's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 1"

1904: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly / Madame Butterfly"

1910: Alfred Mendelsohn is born

1912: FP of Jules Massenet's "Roma"

1913: René Leibowitz is born

1918: Paul Huber is born

1920: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Two Studies for Orchestra"

1923: FP of Hugo Alfvén's "Bergakungen / The Mountain King"

1924: Oskar Merikanto dies

1925: Ron Goodwin is born

1926: Friedrich Cerha is born

1927: FP of Paul Graener's "Hanneles Himmelfahrt"

1932: FP of Eduard Künneke's "Liselott"

1935: FP of Walter Kollo's "Derfflinger"

1935: FP of Leevi Madetoja's "Juha"

1935: FP of Antoine Mariotte's "Gargantua"

1940: Ulrich Hildebrandt dies

1944: Karl Jenkins is born

1949: Fred Frith is born

1952: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Boulevard Solitude"

1955: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Fantasia y Fuga"

1962: Bruno Walter dies

1970: Alfred Newman dies

1972: Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov dies

1978: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1991: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Streichtrio / String Trio"

1992: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Sinfonietta Nr. 1 / Sinfonietta No. 1"

1996: FP of Paul Alan Barker's "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"

1997: FP of Philip Glass' "Planctus"

1998: Luctor Ponse dies

2005: FP of Yehudi Wyner's "Chiavi in Mano"

2011: Giampaolo Coral dies

2019: Ami Maayani dies