On This Day – 25 April

#OTD in 1792 “La Marseillaise” (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

#OTD in 1894 – the first performance of Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson, Op.61

Happy Birthday to Johann Heinrich Buttstett, born OTD in 1666

Happy Birthday to Giovanni Marco Rutini, born OTD in 1723

Happy Birthday to Luise Adolpha Le Beau, born OTD in 1850

Happy Birthday to Walter de la Mare, born OTD in 1873

Happy Birthday to Ella Fitzgerald, born OTD in 1917