Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 March ?

1517: Heinrich Isaac dies

1657: Jacob van Eyck dies

1731: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen"

1747: Manuel Braulio Canales is born

1762: Francesco Pollini is born

1763: Gottlob Bachmann is born

1765: FP of Tommaso Giordani's "The Maid of the Mill"

1827: Ludwig van Beethoven dies

1827: Emanuel Kania is born

1827: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge / Moses and Pharaoh, or The Crossing of the Red Sea"

1836: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Les Chaperons blancs"

1844: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "La Sirène"

1845: FP of Franz Adolf Berwald's "Modehandlerskan"

1854: Emilie Holmberg dies

1855: Franz Ludwig Veit Marschner is born

1859: Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov is born

1874: Oskar Nedbal is born

1879: Viggo Brodersen is born

1881: FP of Richard Strauss' "Festmarsch"

1888: Edward Bache dies

1896: Richard Flury is born

1897: FP of Gustav Holst's "Clear and Cool"

1899: William Baines is born

1900: Jean-Baptiste-Philémon de Cuvillon dies

1904: Hermann Schroeder is born

1905: André Cluytens is born

1916: Karl Heinrich Döring dies

1918: César Cui dies

1918: Claude Debussy dies

1919: FP of Egon Kornauth's "Violinsonate / Violin Sonata"

1925: Pierre Boulez is born

1932: FP of Federico Moreno Torroba's "Luisa Fernanda"

1936: Erich Urbanner is born

1950: Edith Canat de Chizy is born

1952: FP of Rolf Liebermann's "Leonore 40/45"

1962: Cyrillus Kreek dies

1963: FP of Günter Bialas' "Sieben Meditationen zu den Schöpfungstagen"

1970: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "umrem, umrem"

1973: Noël Coward dies

1981: Friedrich Högner dies

1985: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Oboensonate / Oboe Sonata"

1987: Eugen Jochum dies

2000: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "Metamorphose II"

2005: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Im Volkston"

2009: Glauco Cataldo dies

2017: Alain Gagnon dies