Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 February ?

1587: Stefano Landi is born

1630: William Brade dies

1723: Thomas d'Urfey dies

1733: Johann Adam Birkenstock dies

1770: Anton Reicha is born

1770: Giuseppe Tartini dies

1772: Caspar Fürstenau is born

1782: Giovanni Battista Noferi dies

1794: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Le Congrès des rois"

1802: Victor Hugo is born

1808: Elias Parish-Alvars is born

1822: Franz Strauss is born

1828: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Il giovedì grasso o Il nuovo Pourceaugnac"

1831: Filippo Marchetti is born

1832: Modesta Sanginés Uriarte is born

1839: FP of Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken's "Die Flucht nach der Schweiz"

1864: Alfred Georges Bachelet is born

1866: Tekla Griebel-Wandall is born

1875: Richard Wetz is born

1879: Frank Bridge is born

1881: FP of Marie Jaëll's "Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1881: FP of Marie Jaëll's "Klaviertrio Nr. 1 / Piano Trio No. 1"

1887: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Bellmann"

1889: Karl Davydov dies

1899: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 6 / Symphony No. 6"

1900: Leopold Grützmacher dies

1910: FP of Jean Gilbert's "Die keusche Susanne"

1913: Felix Draeseke dies

1916: Gustave Sandré dies

1923: FP of Max Deutsch's "Der Schatz"

1926: Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller dies

1931: FP of Jenő Hubay von Szalatna's "Az alarc / The Mask"

1935: FP of Georges Bizet's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1936: FP of Jenő Hubay von Szalatna's "Az onzo orias / The Selfish Giant"

1947: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Divertimento G-Dur (Concertino)"

1950: FP of Leonard Bernstein's "The Age of Anxiety"

1953: Ralf Bauer is born

1953: Elisabeth Kuyper dies

1964: FP of Günter Bialas' "Preisungen"

1964: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Kleines Orchesterkonzert"

1973: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Concertino / Concert Piece"

1977: Dom Clément Jacob dies

1978: Maria Bach dies

1981: Howard Hanson dies

1981: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Symphony No. 2"

1990: FP of Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar's "3 Moments musicaux"

1996: Mieczysław Samuilovitch Vainberg dies

2002: Oskar Sala dies

2010: FP of Barbara Heller's "Patchwork"

2010: FP of Barbara Heller's "La Caleta (Kleine Bucht)"

2010: FP of Barbara Heller's "Patchwork"

2017: Dimiter Christoff dies

2018: Thomas Pernes dies