Birthdays in Music Feb 28 Gustave Kerker, German born American composer for Broadway musicals (The Belle of New York), born in Hertford, Germany (d. 1923) Deaths in Music Feb 9 Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem, dies at 58 Feb 14 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56 Feb 15 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer ("Ruslan and Ludmilla"), dies at 53 Feb 26 Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88 1856 Music History by Year 1858