Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 July ?

1661: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Les saisons"

1678: Joseph I. is born

1688: Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant is born

1707: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "Turno Aricino"

1773: FP of Joseph Haydn's "L'Infedeltà delusa / Deceit Outwitted"

1782: John Field is born

1791: Franz Xaver Mozart is born

1793: Alessandro Besozzi dies

1805: FP of Johann Simon Mayr's "L'amor coniugale"

1817: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Zwei Kränze am Annentage"

1830: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Les Trois Cathérine"

1863: Jāzeps Vītols is born

1867: FP of Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke's "König Manfred"

1869: Karl Otto Lies is born

1872: Albert Bertelin is born

1872: Michele Carafa dies

1873: Alfred Brüggemann is born

1874: Serge Koussevitzky is born

1876: Ernest Schelling is born

1882: FP of Richard Wagner's "Parsifal"

1892: Philipp Jarnach is born

1922: Ferdinand Manns dies

1922: Patrice Sciortino is born

1926: Ella Adaïewsky dies

1928: Tadeusz Baird is born

1929: Alexis Weissenberg is born

1933: Eduard Schütt dies

1934: Anthony Gilbert is born

1939: Gunter Erdmann is born

1947: Ada Gentile is born

1953: Gunter Waldek is born

1960: Toshiro Saruya is born

1962: Pierre Bretagne dies

1964: Tommy B. Andersson is born

1966: Clemens Gadenstätter is born

1966: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Musik für Streichorchester in einem Satz / Music for Strings"

1967: Matthijs Vermeulen dies

1968: FP of Ravi Shankar's "Bhakti"

1982: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Little Quartet No. 1"

1991: FP of Fabian Müller's "Rhapsodie für Streichorchester"

1995: FP of Aulis Sallinen's "Palatsi"

2000: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Totentanz"

2001: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Symphony No. 3"

2003: Richard Wayne Dirksen dies

2017: Paul Angerer dies

2017: Waldram Hollfelder dies