Classical Calendar: What happened on 2 March ?

1631: FP of Stefano Landi's "Il Sant' Alessio"

1764: Hélène de Montgeroult is born

1815: Antonio Buzzolla is born

1818: Giulio Briccialdi is born

1824: Bedřich Smetana is born

1825: FP of Michele Carafa's "La belle au bois dormant"

1838: Ludwig Abeille dies

1839: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Pascal et Chambord"

1840: FP of Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda's "Billibambuffs Hochzeitsreise"

1865: Théophile Ysaÿe is born

1868: Carl Eberwein dies

1873: FP of Georges Bizet's "Petite Suite / Little Suite"

1884: Léon Jongen is born

1887: FP of Richard Strauss' "Aus Italien"

1893: Maxime Dumoulin is born

1896: Charles Alwens dies

1896: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Zanetto"

1900: Kurt Weill is born

1901: Albert Rubenson dies

1916: Bernard George Stevens is born

1917: John Gardner is born

1918: Theobald Rehbaum dies

1919: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Dva mužské sbory na litevské lidové texty / Two Male Choruses Set to Lithuanian Folk Texts"

1921: Robert Simpson is born

1922: FP of Opol Ygouw's "Sonate pour violoncelle et piano / Sonata for Cello and Piano"

1926: FP of Gustav Holst's "Terzetto"

1927: Siegfried Köhler is born

1927: Witold Szalonek is born

1927: FP of Kurt Weill's "Der neue Orpheus"

1927: FP of Kurt Weill's "Royal Palace"

1928: Étienne Royer dies

1928: FP of Paul Abraham's "Zenebona"

1934: Bernard Rands is born

1934: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Marijka nevěrnice / Marika the Unfaithful"

1937: FP of Othmar Schoeck's "Massimilla Doni"

1944: Leif Segerstam is born

1944: Siegfried Translateur dies

1945: FP of Henri Sauguet's "Les Forains / The Itinerant Players "

1948: Dan Welcher is born

1949: Hayden Wayne is born

1949: FP of Heinrich Sutermeister's "Die schwarze Spinne"

1951: FP of Nicolas Nabokov's "Vita nuova"

1952: Hermann von Glenck dies

1953: Volodymyr Zubytskyi is born

1956: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Symphonie Nr. 11 / Symphony No. 11"

1958: T. Patrick Carrabré is born

1959: Yrjö Kilpinen dies

1961: Simone Young is born

1961: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Ariadna"

1965: FP of Sándor Veress' "Elegie"

1971: Lili Wieruszowski dies

1986: FP of György Kurtág's "13 Stücke für zwei Cymbals"

2002: Igo Hofstetter dies

2003: William Blezard dies

2003: Malcolm Williamson dies

2003: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Limonen aus Sizilien"

2011: Čestmír Gregor dies

2011: Raimund Schwedeler dies

2014: Peter Bares dies

2015: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Duettina pro violoncello (violu) a kontrabas / Duettina for cello (viola) and double bass"