Classical Calendar: What happened on 23 February ?

1649: John Blow is born

1653: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Ballet royal de la nuit"

1662: Johann Crüger dies

1701: William Williams dies

1704: Georg Muffat dies

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen"

1730: Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti is born

1745: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "La Princess de Navarre"

1754: David August von Apell is born

1779: Johann Kaspar Aiblinger is born

1799: FP of Luigi Cherubini's "La Punition"

1806: Tommaso Giordani dies

1835: FP of Jacques Fromental Halévy's "La Juive / The Jewess"

1856: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Manon Lescaut"

1873: FP of Richard Strauss' "Schneiderpolka"

1876: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "1. Sinfonie / First Symphony"

1876: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "Violinkonzert Nr. 1 / Violin Concerto No. 1"

1879: Rudolf Sieczyński is born

1886: Albert Sammons is born

1887: Oskar Frederik Lindberg is born

1897: Woldemar Bargiel dies

1900: Elinor Remick Warren is born

1902: FP of Fernand La Tombelle's "Sonate pour piano et violoncelle / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1903: Friedrich Grützmacher dies

1913: FP of Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi's "O Lenzestag"

1914: FP of Jules Massenet's "Cléopâtre"

1918: Sophie Menter dies

1920: Hall Overton is born

1920: FP of Hugo Kaun's "Der Fremde"

1923: FP of Édouard Flament's "Cellosonate Nr. 2 / Cello Sonata No. 2"

1924: David Gow dies

1924: Lejaren Arthur Hiller is born

1924: Richard Kittler is born

1924: Antonio Pasculli dies

1933: Heinz Kratochwil is born

1934: Edward Elgar dies

1934: FP of Benjamin Britten's "A Boy Was Born"

1935: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Panny moudré a panny pošetilé"

1935: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Hry o Marii / The Miracle of Our Lady"

1937: Marc Bleuse is born

1938: FP of George Gershwin's "I Love To Rhyme"

1938: FP of George Gershwin's "I Was Doing All Right"

1938: FP of George Gershwin's "Love Is Here To Stay"

1938: FP of George Gershwin's "Love Walked In"

1950: Michel Meynaud is born

1952: Max Beckschäfer is born

1963: Heinz Munsonius dies

1969: FP of Isang Yun's "Die Witwe des Schmetterlings"

1980: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Hyperion-Fragmente"

1985: FP of Samuel Adler's "Sonata for Viola and Piano"

1992: FP of Barbara Heller's "Die gelbe Tapete"

1997: FP of Helmut Rogl's "In's Licht"

2001: FP of Franz Hummel's "Styx"

2003: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Vi"

2003: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Das goldene Schlüsselchen"

2013: Vytautas Jurgutis dies

2018: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Medea"