Birthdays in Music Feb 4 Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer Feb 7 Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer Feb 12 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, English clergyman and composer (Selection of Sacred Music), born in the Fulneck Moravian Settlement, Yorkshire (d. 1836) Deaths in Music Feb 5 Bernhard Christian Weber, composer, dies at 45 1757 Music History by Year 1759