Classical Calendar: What happened on 24 February ?

1587: Antoine de Boësset is born

1607: FP of Claudio Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo"

1665: Nicholas Lanier dies

1674: Matthias Weckmann dies

1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier dies

1715: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt"

1766: Samuel Wesley is born

1771: Johann Baptist Cramer is born

1809: FP of E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Chöre zu "Rollas Tod oder Die Spanier in Peru""

1811: Johann Georg Hermann Voigt dies

1814: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Alimon und Zaide oder Der Prinz von Catanea"

1821: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e cuor di ferro / Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Heart of Iron"

1829: Jan Stefani dies

1842: Arrigo Boito is born

1845: Leo Grill is born

1846: Luigi Denza is born

1847: FP of Richard Wagner's "C. W. Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide"

1859: Agnes Tschetschulin is born

1863: FP of Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein's "Feramors"

1866: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Strykeoktett / String Octet"

1870: Oskar Böhme is born

1877: Rudolf Ganz is born

1885: FP of Ivar Kristian Hallström's "Neaga"

1891: Jules de Swert dies

1893: Heinrich Strecker is born

1902: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Der Seesturm"

1902: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Das kananäische Weib"

1906: FP of Richard Strauss' "Volks-Hymne"

1912: FP of Leo Ascher's "Hoheit tanzt Walzer"

1921: Ingvar Lidholm is born

1922: Felix Werder is born

1928: Juan Allende-Blin is born

1929: André Messager dies

1934: FP of Pierre-Marcel Godde's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1938: FP of Geirr Tveitt's "Baldurs draumar"

1946: Jirí Belohlávek is born

1956: FP of Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah"

1957: Bernhard Lang is born

1965: FP of Richard Rodney Bennett's "The Mines of Sulphur"

1966: Samuel Maynez Prince dies

1967: Franz Waxman dies

1969: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Konzert für Violine und Orchester"

1970: Albert Reiter dies

1975: Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany dies

1975: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Elegie für Oboe solo"

1975: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Eos"

1976: Charles Wilfried Orr dies

1976: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Interplay"

1977: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Sonatine für Violine und Klavier"

1981: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Sechs Phan-tasten und zwei Schlagzeuger"

1983: Herbert Howells dies

1989: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "Music for Five"

1991: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Unruhige Zeit"

1998: Geoffrey Bush dies

1999: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Dialogy pro violoncello a cembalo / Dialogues for cello and harpsichord"

2002: Leo Ornstein dies

2002: FP of Eurico Carrapatoso's "Mentes, Peer!"

2009: Svatopluk Havelka dies

2015: Tyzen Hsiao dies

2020: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Bachsuite I"