Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 October ?

1564: Hans Leo Hassler is born

1622: Sebastián de Vivanco dies

1641: FP of Samuel Scheidt's "Drei schöne Dinge sind"

1685: Domenico Scarlatti is born

1694: Johan Helmich Roman is born

1720: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "La verità in cimento"

1749: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault dies

1756: Johann Theodor Roemhildt dies

1765: Jan Jakub Ryba is born

1811: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "L'equivoco stravagante / The Curious Misunderstanding"

1822: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Chiara e Serafina, ossia I pirati"

1834: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Gemma di Vergy"

1841: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "La Main de fer ou Un mariage secret"

1852: Joseph Hollman is born

1853: Peter Martin Cornelius Rubner is born

1869: August Halm is born

1872: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "To mannskorsanger"

1872: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Sørgemarsj / Funeral march"

1872: FP of Johan Severin Svendsen's "Karneval i Paris / Carnival in Paris"

1873: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 2 / Symphony No. 2"

1874: Peter Cornelius dies

1875: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Voyage dans la lune / Voyage to the Moon"

1886: Hermann Unger is born

1894: FP of Isaac Albéniz' "San Antonio de la Florida"

1903: FP of Richard Strauss' "Taillefer"

1907: FP of Julius Bittner's "Die rote Gred"

1912: Karl Etti is born

1915: August Bungert dies

1918: Eric Ericson is born

1922: Theodora Cormontan dies

1922: FP of Francis Casadesus' "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1930: FP of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch's "Zolotoy Vek [Золотой век] / The Golden Age"

1934: Jacques Loussier is born

1938: FP of Georges Bizet's "Ouvertüre / Overture"

1944: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Miracle in the Gorbals"

1953: Krzesimir Dębski is born

1956: Walter Gieseking dies

1957: Thomas Daniel Schlee is born

1958: Algirdas Klova is born

1958: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Romance z pampelišek / The Romance of the Dandelions"

1965: Sakari Oramo is born

1969: FP of Cesar Bresgen's "Kleine deutsche Orgelmesse"

1969: FP of Emil Petrovics' "Bűn és bűnhődés"

1970: FP of Martin Bjelik's "Autogramm"

1971: Yves de La Casiniere dies

1977: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Sonata"

1982: FP of György Kurtág's "Attila Jószef-Fragmente / Attila József Fragments"

1984: John Woods Duke dies

1988: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Symphonie Nr. 7 / Symphony No. 7"

1989: FP of György Kurtág's "Grabstein für Stephan"

1991: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Der einsame Ziegenbock"

1992: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Duo concertante"

1996: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Lichte Spiele"

1996: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Teamwork"

1998: Lloyd Ultan dies

1999: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Entfaltung"

2001: Gerhard Wohlgemuth dies

2006: FP of Ada Gentile's "La giornata di Betty Boop"