Classical Calendar: What happened on 20 February ?

1626: John Dowland dies

1653: Luigi Rossi dies

1667: Zachariáš Zarevutius dies

1693: FP of Agostino Steffani's "Le rivali concordi"

1705: Nicolas Chédeville is born

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn"

1724: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto"

1734: Franz-Ignaz Beck is born

1744: Marie Alexandre Guénin is born

1761: Ludwig Abeille is born

1763: Adalbert Gyrowetz is born

1775: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (II)"

1785: Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch is born

1796: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "La Famille américaine"

1802: Charles-Auguste de Bériot is born

1803: Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich is born

1816: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione / The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution"

1834: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Der Verschwender"

1837: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Die beiden Schützen"

1853: Amanda Röntgen-Maier is born

1861: Eugène Scribe dies

1863: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Bavards"

1869: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Forza del Destino (1869)"

1876: Theodore Akimenko is born

1877: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Lebedinoye ozero [Лебединое озеро] / Swan Lake"

1881: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 4 / Symphony No. 4"

1884: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "5 Lieder / 5 Songs"

1888: Vasyl Barvinsky is born

1893: FP of Eugène Lacroix' "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1897: Evelyn Faltis is born

1897: Johannes Weyhrauch is born

1900: Antonio Veretti is born

1903: Karel Janeček is born

1903: FP of Edmund Eysler's "Bruder Straubinger"

1907: FP of Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow's "Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii [Сказание о невидимом граде Китеже и деве Февронии] / The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya"

1911: Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov dies

1911: Robert McBride is born

1916: Julius Juzeliūnas is born

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "The French Doll"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Do It Again!"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Someone"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "Tra-la-la (This Time It's Really Love)"

1922: FP of George Gershwin's "All To Myself"

1925: Marco Enrico Bossi dies

1929: Toshiro Mayuzumi is born

1931: FP of Jeanne Barbillion's "Sonate synthétique pour violoncelle et piano"

1934: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Sonate für zwei Violinen und Klavier"

1936: Kim D. Tesakov is born

1937: FP of Marie François Maurice Emmanuel's "Amphitryon"

1940: Christoph Eschenbach is born

1943: FP of Franz Lehár's "Garabonciás diák"

1946: Vladimir Martynov is born

1950: Henry Martin is born

1951: Anthony Davis is born

1951: FP of Maurice Ravel's "La valse"

1953: Riccardo Chailly is born

1956: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Seek the Lord"

1958: Franz Ippisch dies

1959: FP of Gerald Finzi's "To a Poet: To a poet a thousand years hence"

1959: FP of Gerald Finzi's "To a Poet: On parent knees"

1959: FP of Gerald Finzi's "To a Poet: Intrada"

1959: FP of Gerald Finzi's "To a Poet: The birthnight"

1959: FP of Gerald Finzi's "To a Poet: June on Castle Hill"

1959: FP of Gerald Finzi's "To a Poet: Ode on the rejection of St Cecilia"

1960: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Birthday Song for a Royal Child"

1961: Percy Grainger dies

1962: Émile Naoumoff is born

1962: Iraida Yusupova is born

1963: Jacob Gade dies

1963: Ferenc Fricsay dies

1969: Ernest Ansermet dies

1972: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Driving out the death"

1974: David Monrad Johansen dies

1975: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

1978: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 / Piano Concerto No. 2"

1981: Hans Fleischer dies

1984: Fikret Amirov dies

1985: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Requiem"

1986: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Introduzione e Passacaglia"

1987: Adrian Francis Cruft dies

1990: Verdina Shlonsky dies

1992: Johann Lütter dies

1996: Tōru Takemitsu dies

2001: FP of Altug Ünlü's "Passacaglia"

2016: Herbert Callhoff dies

2019: Dominick Argento dies