25 September 2026
[1236]
Death of Gautier de Coincy in Soissons, aged about 59.
[1683]
French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau is baptized in Dijon.
[1716]
Death of Johann Christoph Pez in Stuttgart, aged 52.
[1741]
Birth of Václav Pichl in Bechyně. He died on 23 January 1805.
[1849]
Death of Johann Strauss I in Wien, aged 45.
[1862]
Birth of Léon Boëllmann in Ensisheim. He died on 11 October 1897.
[1906]
Birth of Dmitri Shostakovich in Saint Petersburg. He died on 9 August 1975.
[1907]
Première of Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 3 in Helsinki.
[1916]
Death of Julius Fučík in Berlin, aged 44.
[1927]
Birth of Colin Davis in Weybridge. He died on 11 April 2013.
[1932]
Birth of Glenn Gould in Toronto. He died on 4 October 1982.
[1966]
Première of Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2 in Moskva.
[1997]
Death of Jean Françaix in Paris, aged 85.
[2009]
Death of Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona, aged 86.
[2019]
Death of Paul Badura-Skoda in Wien, aged 91.
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