Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 February ?

1632: Giovanni Battista Vitali is born

1706: FP of Marin Marais' "Alcyone"

1716: Gaspard Fritz is born

1732: Johann Christian Kittel is born

1743: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Samson"

1743: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Orgelkonzert Nr. 8 / Organ Concerto No. 8"

1770: Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck is born

1829: Johann Baptist Kucharz dies

1834: FP of Carl Loewe's "Die drei Wünsche"

1837: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Pia de' Tolomei"

1850: Georg Henschel is born

1857: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Liebestreu"

1867: FP of Johann (Sohn) Strauss' "Künstlerleben / An Artist's Life"

1868: Casimir Gide dies

1869: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ein deutsches Requiem"

1871: FP of Ivar Kristian Hallström's "En dröm / A Dream"

1872: Fernand Halphen is born

1896: Dimitri Mitropoulos is born

1900: Egon Theodor Friedrich is born

1902: FP of Jules Massenet's "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame"

1904: FP of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Hélène"

1910: Friedrich Metzler is born

1915: Marcel Landowski is born

1915: David van de Woestijne is born

1921: Oscar Feltsman is born

1923: Carl Kleemann dies

1923: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Míjející půlnoc / As Midnight Passes"

1925: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Chôro Nr. 2"

1928: FP of Kurt Weill's "Der Zar lässt sich photographieren"

1931: Dieter Schönbach is born

1933: Arnold Mendelssohn dies

1933: FP of Kurt Weill's "Der Silbersee"

1939: Marek Janowski is born

1940: Yordan Dafov is born

1946: Theodor Veidl dies

1954: Bertil Palmar Johansen is born

1955: FP of Ernst Krenek's "Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 2 / Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 2"

1956: Gustave Charpentier dies

1958: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Sinfonia concertante Nr. 1"

1959: Eric Zeisl dies

1962: FP of Germaine Tailleferre's "Au paradis avec les ânes"

1964: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Golden Cantata: Music is the Golden Form"

1964: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Dvakrát Alexandr"

1966: Casimir von Pászthory dies

1971: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1971: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Konzert für Klavier und Orchester"

1986: FP of Philip Glass' "Phaedra"

1988: FP of Samuel Adler's "To Remember: to be remembered"

1990: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Concentus für Streichorchester"

1997: Gerd Domhardt dies

1997: Eric Fenby dies

1997: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Das Mädchen und der Tod"

2010: Ariel Ramírez dies

2011: Carlos Veerhoff dies

2011: FP of Fabian Müller's "Dialogues Cellestes"

2013: Horst Schiffbauer dies