Classical Calendar: What happened on 21 February ?

1628: Gregor Aichinger dies

1726: FP of Giuseppe Porsile's "Spartaco"

1774: FP of Johann August Just's "De sympathie"

1787: Antonio Rodrígez de Hita dies

1791: Carl Czerny is born

1791: Nicola Manfroce is born

1801: Jan Václav Kalivodus is born

1822: FP of Victor Dourlen's "Le Petit souper ou La Belle Ferronnière"

1826: FP of Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante's "Caritea, regina di Spagna, ossia La morte di Don Alfonso, re di Portogallo / Donna Caritea"

1828: Carl Greith is born

1832: FP of Albert Lortzing's "Der Weihnachtsabend"

1835: Otto Beständig is born

1835: FP of Giovanni Pacini's "Carlo di Borgogna"

1836: Léo Delibes is born

1836: Emil Hartmann is born

1844: Charles-Marie Widor is born

1852: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "La Poupée de Nuremberg / Dolly"

1856: Theodor Döhler dies

1861: Pierre Onfroy de Bréville is born

1864: FP of Robert Volkmann's "Ouvertüre / Overture"

1865: Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter is born

1879: Stefano Donaudy is born

1880: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Donna Juanita"

1881: Kenneth Alford is born

1885: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Quartett Nr. 2 für zwei Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncell [Streichquartett Nr. 2] / String Quartet No. 2"

1886: FP of Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski's "Khovanshchina [Хованщина]"

1886: FP of Richard Strauss' "Begegnung"

1890: FP of Zdeněk Fibich's "Námluvy Pelopovy / The Courtship of Pelops"

1900: FP of Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glasunow's "Vremena goda [Времена года] / The Seasons"

1901: Hermann Pabel is born

1902: Severiano Briseño Chávez is born

1902: Rudolf Peters is born

1903: FP of Jenő Hubay von Szalatna's "Moharozsa / The Moss Rose"

1919: FP of Sacharij Paliaschwili's "Abessalom da Eteri [აბესალომ და ეთერი] / Absalom and Eteri"

1919: FP of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's "Domedagsprofeterna / The Doomsday Prophets"

1920: FP of Darius Milhaud's "Le Bœuf sur le toit / The Ox on the Roof: The Nothing-Doing Bar"

1924: FP of Karl Weigl's "Heimkehr / Homecoming"

1924: FP of Karl Weigl's "Hymne"

1924: FP of Karl Weigl's "Geständnis / Confession"

1930: FP of Paul Abraham's "Viktoria und ihr Husar"

1933: FP of Pierre-Octave Ferroud's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1933: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Klarinettenquintett"

1939: Hanno Haag is born

1948: Frederic Lamond dies

1955: Kaoru Koyama is born

1958: Simon Holt is born

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: Let me enjoy the earth"

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: In years defaced"

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: The market-girl"

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: I look into my glass"

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: It never looks like summer"

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: At a lunar eclipse"

1958: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Till Earth Outwears: Life laughs onwards"

1964: Raoul Lay is born

1967: Michael Sanderling is born

1979: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Spring Sowing"

1989: Otar Taktakischwili dies

1996: Morton Gould dies

2000: Violet Archer dies

2016: Pascal Bentoiu dies

2017: Stanisław Skrowaczewski dies

2022: Rainer Koch dies