Classical Calendar: What happened on 28 February ?

1616: Caspar Förster is born

1732: FP of Michel Pignolet de Montéclair's "Jephté / Jephthah"

1817: Pietro Carlo Guglielmi dies

1820: Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis dies

1830: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Il diluvio universale"

1835: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "La Marquise"

1851: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Valéria"

1854: Juliusz Zarębski is born

1857: Gustave Kerker is born

1862: FP of Charles François Gounod's "La Reine de Saba / The Queen of Sheba"

1867: Max Bohrer dies

1869: FP of Georges Bizet's "Symphonie / Symphony"

1869: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Rinaldo"

1876: Raimondo Boucheron dies

1876: John Alden Carpenter is born

1878: Artur Kapp is born

1882: Richard Stein is born

1885: Theodor Veidl is born

1898: FP of Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1901: FP of Hakon Børresen's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1921: Vladimír Sommer is born

1935: Francisca Gonzaga dies

1935: Walter Haupt is born

1945: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Trio für Flöte, Cello und Klavier"

1946: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Polní mše / Field Mass"

1948: Jean-Jacques Dünki is born

1953: Osmo Vänskä is born

1956: Thierry de Mey is born

1964: Rihards Dubra is born

1965: Markus Stenz is born

1966: Helmut Riethmüller dies

1970: FP of Joonas Kokkonen's "Erekhtheion / Erechtheum"

1998: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Farinelli"

1999: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Duo"

2001: FP of Daniel Hensel's "Elegie in Memoriam Gerhard Schedl"

2010: FP of Aribert Reimann's "Medea"

2013: Paul Walter Fürst dies

2014: Karl Anton Rickenbacher dies

2015: Ezra Laderman dies

2019: André Previn dies