Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 April ?

1564: William Shakespeare is born

1744: Domenico Sarri dies

1784: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Les Danaïdes"

1785: Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff dies

1820: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Der Leuchtturm"

1824: FP of Michele Carafa's "L'auberge supposée"

1830: FP of Niccolò Paganini's "Violinkonzert Nr. 4 / Violin Concerto No. 4"

1862: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Die Kartenschlägerin"

1868: FP of Josef Strauss' "Plappermäulchen / Little Blabbermouth"

1877: Louise Angélique Bertin dies

1883: Richard Göhle is born

1896: Max Brand is born

1906: Ernst Ludwig Uray is born

1907: Josef Hellmesberger Jr. dies

1907: Pietro Platania dies

1910: Erland von Koch is born

1916: Arnold van Wyk is born

1918: Cecil Coles dies

1922: Hans Sommer dies

1923: FP of Ottorino Respighi's "Belfagor"

1924: Josef Labor dies

1930: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1935: Victor Vladimirowich Ewald dies

1947: FP of Henri Rabaud's "Martine"

1951: John Alden Carpenter dies

1953: FP of Charles Ives' "Symphony No. 1"

1960: Sidney Corbett is born

1960: FP of Michael Tippett's "Music"

1964: Christiane Michel-Ostertun is born

1965: Aaron Avshalomov dies

1965: FP of Charles Ives' "Symphony No. 4"

1967: FP of Tilo Medek's "Streichtrio / String Trio"

1970: FP of Günter Bialas' "Musik für 11 Streicher"

1971: Klaus Lang is born

1975: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Shield of Faith"

1979: Michael Balke is born

1979: FP of Heimo Erbse's "Kammerkonzert"

1983: Norbert Sprongl dies

1991: Hans Holewa dies

1992: FP of György Kurtág's "Életút"

1993: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Gedanken für drei Instrumente"

1997: FP of Kalevi Aho's "... jäätyivät umpeen levottomat vedet"

1997: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Kammer-Symphonie Nr. 3"

2002: FP of Jean-Louis Agobet's "Ciaccona"

2005: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Naxos Quartet No. 6"

2006: FP of Peter Machajdík's "Lamento"

2008: Henry Brant dies

2009: FP of Fabian Müller's "Konzert für Orchester"

2009: FP of Hermann Seidl's "dunkelgraugrün"

2009: FP of Harald Weiss' "Bremer Requiem"