Classical Calendar: What happened on 26 December ?

1687: Georg Johann Pisendel is born

1698: FP of Benedetto Vinaccesi's "L'innocenza giustificata"

1714: FP of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Te Deum"

1719: FP of Antonio Vivaldi's "Il Teuzzone"

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes"

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Christum wir sollen loben schon"

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Selig ist der Mann"

1731: FP of Johann Adolph Hasse's "Catone in Utica"

1734: FP of Giovanni Battista Sammartini's "L'ambizione superata dalla virtù"

1741: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Artaserse"

1744: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Poro (Alessandro nell'India)"

1751: FP of Ferdinando Bertoni's "Le pescatrici"

1752: Johann Mederitsch is born

1752: FP of Giovanni Battista Sammartini's "Antigone"

1753: FP of Giovanni Battista Sammartini's "Ciro in Armenia"

1756: FP of Quirino Gasparini's "Artaserse"

1762: Franz Wilhelm Tausch is born

1763: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Ezio (II)"

1763: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "L'Issipile"

1767: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Alceste"

1768: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "L'isola disabitata"

1770: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Mitridate, Rè di Ponto"

1771: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "Il gran Tamerlano"

1772: FP of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Lucio Silla"

1773: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "Antigona"

1773: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "La clemenza di Tito"

1779: FP of Josef Mysliveček's "Armida"

1780: FP of Vicente Martín y Soler's "Andromaca"

1793: Franz Hünten is born

1796: FP of Joseph Haydn's "Missa in Tempore belli"

1812: Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar is born

1813: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Aureliano in Palmira"

1814: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Sigismondo"

1815: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Torvaldo e Dorliska / Torvaldo and Dorliska"

1817: FP of Franz Danzi's "Ouvertüre zum Singspiel "Turandot" nach Carlo Gozzi"

1818: FP of Michele Carafa's "Elisabetta in Derbyshire, ossia Il castello di Fotheringhay"

1819: FP of Michele Carafa's "Il sacrifizio d'Epito"

1819: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Il Falegname di Livonia ossia Pietro il Grande, Czar della Russia / The Livonian Carpenter, or Peter the Great, Tsar of the Russias"

1819: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "Bianca e Falliero, o sia Il consiglio dei Tre Maometto / Bianca and Falliero, or The Counsel of Three"

1821: FP of Michele Carafa's "La capricciosa ed il soldato, o sia Un momento di lezione"

1821: FP of Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante's "Andronico"

1822: FP of Michele Carafa's "Eufemio di Messina"

1830: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Anna Bolena"

1831: FP of Vincenzo Bellini's "Norma"

1833: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia"

1838: FP of Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante's "Elena da Feltre"

1840: FP of Otto Nicolai's "Gildippe ed Odoardo"

1841: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Maria Padilla"

1849: Gräfin Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach is born

1863: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Roderico, re dei Goti"

1867: FP of Georges Bizet's "La Jolie Fille de Perth / The Fair Maid of Perth"

1874: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Whittington"

1879: Julius Weismann is born

1880: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Tragische Ouvertüre"

1880: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Il figliuol prodigo / The Prodigal Son"

1884: Dina Appeldorn is born

1885: Arnold Mendelssohn is born

1901: Victor Hely-Hutchinson is born

1905: Fritz Spindler dies

1905: FP of Leo Blech's "Aschenbrödel"

1905: FP of Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár's "Trauungschor"

1905: FP of Charles-Marie Widor's "Les pêcheurs de Saint-Jean"

1909: Julius Bleichmann dies

1915: Rudolf Wagner dies

1916: Helmut Eder is born

1916: Bernhard Scholz dies

1922: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Manon Lescaut"

1926: Earle Brown is born

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "The Senate (Scene III)"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing Ouverture"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Because, Because"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Love Is SweepingTthe Country"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Posterity Is Just Around The Corner"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "The Illegitimate Daughter"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Trumpeter Blow Your Golden Horn"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Who Cares?"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Who Is The Lucky Girl To Be?"

1931: FP of George Gershwin's "Wintergreen For President"

1935: FP of Franz Salmhofer's "Die Dame im Traum"

1937: Ivor Gurney dies

1954: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "F. Gulda: Sieben Galgenlieder"

1964: Ian Wilson is born

1970: Tobias Klaus Giesen is born

1974: Knudåge Riisager dies

1978: Fritz Büchtger dies

1988: Pablo Sorozábal dies

1989: Lennox Berkeley dies

1995: Dudar Solomonovich Hahanov dies

2000: Paul Kont dies

2014: FP of Barbara Heller's "Vierhändig"

2018: Theodore Antoniou dies