Events in Music Feb 11 Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris Birthdays in Music Feb 2 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer Feb 3 Georges Jacobi, German violinist, composer (The Black Crook), and conductor (Alhambra Theatre, London, 1872-98), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1906)) Feb 25 Alexis Hollander, German composer, born in Ratibor, Silesia (d. 1924) 1839 Music History by Year 1841