On This Day – 20 February

1724 – the first performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto

1736 – the first performance of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast

1816 – the first performance of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville

1877 – the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

1879 – the first performance of Franck’s Les Béatitudes

1881 – the first performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No.4

Born OTD in 1705 – Nicolas Chédeville

Born OTD in 1802 – Charles Auguste de Bériot

Died OTD in 1626 – John Dowland

Died OTD in 1961 – Percy Grainger

Died OTD in 1963 – Jacob Gade

Died OTD in 1996 – Toru Takemitsu