Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 August ?

1687: Willem de Fesch is born

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet"

1726: Karl Kohaut is born

1743: Josep Escorihuela dies

1813: Daniel Gottlob Türk dies

1815: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Klarinettenquintett"

1846: FP of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Elias / Elijah"

1849: Jacques Féréol Mazas dies

1860: Friedrich Silcher dies

1885: August Gottfried Ritter dies

1890: Willy Engel-Berger is born

1896: Louis Lee dies

1905: Silvio Omizzolo is born

1915: Humphrey Searle is born

1922: Conny Campagne is born

1922: FP of Rutland Boughton's "Alkestis"

1923: Wolfgang Sawallisch is born

1933: Ida Gotkovsky is born

1935: Léon Kuguet dies

1944: Hans Georg Pflüger is born

1946: Ladislav Kubík is born

1948: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1955: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Sonata"

1956: Sally Beamish is born

1956: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Fresky Piera della Francesca / The Frescos of Piero della Francesca"

1958: Ralph Vaughan Williams dies

1965: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Capriccio per oboe e 11 archi"

1969: FP of Hugh Wood's "Cello Concerto"

1972: FP of Carl Orff's "Rota"

1972: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Ekechejria"

1977: Heinz Röttger dies

1978: Charles Haubiel dies