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- 1706 Burial of German composer Johann Pachelbel, age 52, in Nuremberg.
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1737 Birth of Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveczek, in Ober-Sarka. Friend and colleague of Mozart.
- 1748 FP of Handel's oratorio Joshua at the Covent Garden, London. It may have included the premiere of Handel's Concerto a due cori No. 1 as well (Gregorian date 20 MAR).
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1740 FP of Handel's oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, and Organ Concerto in Bb, Op. 7, no. 1, in London (Julian date: 27 FEB)
- 1831 Paris debut of Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini. Composers attending were Meyerbeer, Cherubini, Halvéy and Franz Liszt.
- 1839 Birth of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (Gregorian date: 21 MAR).
- 1842 FP of Verdi's opera Nabucco in at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan.
- 1844 FP of Verdi's opera Ernani in at the Teatro La Fenice, in Venice.
- 1849 FP of Otto Nicolai's opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor basaed on Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Königliches Opernhaus, in Berlin.
- 1868 FP of Thomas' opera Hamlet at the Paris Opéra.
- 1877 FP of Tchaikovsky's symphonic-fantasy Fancesca da Rimini in Moscow (Julian date: 25 FEB)
- 1907 Birth of composer Henry Leland CLARKE.
- 1910 Birth of American composer Samuel Barber, in West Chester, Pa.
- 1924 FP of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5, first version, in Paris, by the composer. The revised version premiered in Alma-Ata, USSR on 5 FEB 1954, by Anatoli Vedernikov.
- 1930 FP of Kurt Weill's opera Die Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, at the Neues Theater in Leipzig.
- 1933 Birth of composer William Francis McBETH.
- 1941 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 2 Antropos, in Brooklyn.
- 1947 Birth of composer Zusaan Kali FASTEAU.
- 1949 Birth of composer Kalevi AHO.
- 1950 Birth of composer Bill ZACCAGNI
- 1951 FP of A. Honegger's Symphony No. 5 Di tre re, by the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch conducting.
- 1980 Birth of composer Anna CLYNE.
- 1980 FP of Earle Brown's Caldar Piece for percussionists and mobile, in Valencia, CA.
- 1982 FP of L. Berio's opera La vera storia The True Story at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan.
- 1999 Death of composer Harry Somers.
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