This Day in Music
| Sep 17 1179: | Hildengard von Bingen, mystic and composer, died in Germany at about the age of 80. |
| Mar 04 1525: | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer best known for church music, born in Palestrina, near Rome, Italy. |
| May 15 1567: | Baptism of Claudio Monteverdi, composer, in Cremona, Italy. He was presumably born a few days earlier. |
| Sep 13 1583: | Birth of Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer, in Ferrar, Italy. |
| Nov 23 1585: | Death of Thomas Tallis, composer of church music, in Greenwich, England, at about the age of 80. |
| Feb 02 1594: | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer best known for church music, died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 58. |
| Aug 12 1612: | Giovanni Gabrieli, composer, died in Venice, Italy, at the age of at least 55. His date of birth is not known. |
| Feb 20 1626: | John Dowland, lutenist and song composer, died in London, England, at the age of about 63. |
| Nov 28 1632: | Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, born in Florence, Italy. |
| Mar 01 1643: | Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer, died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 59. |
| Nov 29 1643: | Claudio Monteverde, composer, died in Venice, Italy, at the age of 76. |
| Mar 04 1648: | Antonio Vivaldi, composer and violinist, born in Venice, Italy. |
| Jan 17 1651: | Death of Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, lutenist and composer, in Rome, Italy, age about 71. |
| Apr 15 1651: | Domenico Gabrielli, composer and cellist, born in Bolonga, Italy. |
| Feb 17 1653: | Arcangelo Corelli, composer, born in Fusignano, northern Italy. |
| Mar 16 1653: | Composer and musician Jean-Baptiste Lully appointed Compositeur de la Musique intrumentale de la chamber at the court of King Louis XIV in France. |
| Sep 01 1653: | Johann Pachelbel, composer best known for Canon in D, born in Nuremberg, Germany. |
| Apr 22 1658: | Guiseppe Torelli, composer, born in Verona, Italy. |
| Sep 10 1659: | Probable birthdate of composer Henry Purcell, in Westminster, London, England. |
| Aug 24 1669: | Alessandro Marcello, composer, born in Venice, Italy. |
| Jun 08 1671: | Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, composer, born in Venice, Italy. |
| Mar 14 1681: | Georg Philipp Telemann, composer, born in Magdeburg, Germany. |
| Sep 25 1683: | Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer, especially noted for keyboard music, born in France. |
| Apr 12 1684: | Nicolò Amati, violin maker, died in Cremona, Italy, aged about 88. |
| Feb 23 1685: | George Frideric Handel, composer, born in Halle, Germany. |
| Mar 21 1685: | Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, in Eisenach, Germany. |
| Jan 08 1687: | While conducting a performance of his Te Deum, Jean-Baptiste Lully accidentally hit his toe with the heavy staff he was using to pound the floor to keep time for the orchestra. The toe turned gangrenous and he died from the effects of the injury about eight weeks later. |
| Mar 22 1687: | Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, died in France at the age of 54, from gangrene and blood poisoning after accidentally hitting himself on the foot with the staff he was using to pound the floor to keep time for the orchestra he was conducting. |
| Nov 10 1688: | François Couperin, composer, born in Paris. |
| Jul 10 1690: | Domenico Gabrielli, composer and cellist, died in Bolonga, Italy, at the age of 39. |
| May 02 1692: | World première performance of Henry Purcell's dramatic opera The Fairy Queen, in London, England. |
| Nov 21 1695: | Henry Purcell, composer, died in Westminster, London, England, at the age of 36. |
| Aug 21 1698: | Giuseppe Guarneri, violin maker, born in Cremona, Italy. |
| Mar 03 1706: | Johann Pachelbel, composer best known for Canon in D, died in Nuremberg, Germany, at the age of 52. |
| Feb 08 1709: | Guiseppe Torelli, composer, died in Bologna, Italy, at the age of 60. |
| Jan 04 1710: | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer, born in Jesi, a town in east Italy. |
| Mar 12 1710: | Thomas Arne, composer, born in Covent Gardens, London, England. |
| Jan 08 1713: | Arcangelo Corelli, composer, died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 59. |
| Mar 08 1714: | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, born in Weimar, Germany. |
| Jul 02 1714: | Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, composer best known for operas, born Erasbach, Bavaria, Germany. |
| Jul 17 1717: | First performance of the Water Music by George Friderich Handel. The performance was given on a barge on the River Thames as entertainment for King George I. Apparently, he enjoyed the music so much that he commanded the musicians to repeat the performance three times on the trip. |
| Feb 13 1725: | World première performance of Handel's opera Rodelinda at the KingÂ’s Theatre in the Haymarket, London, England. |
| Mar 31 1732: | Joseph Haydn, composer, born in Rohrau, Austria. |
| Dec 07 1732: | Inaugural performance at the Royal Opera House, also known as Covent Garden, in London, England. |
| Sep 11 1733: | François Couperin, composer, died in Paris, at the age of 64. |
| Feb 19 1736: | World première performance of Handel's Harp Concerto in B-flat major, Opus 4, No. 6, in London, England. |
| Feb 19 1736: | World première performance of Handel's Organ Concerto in G Minor, Opus 4, No. 1, in London, England. |
| Mar 16 1736: | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer, died in Pozzuoli, a town in west Italy, at the age of 26. |
| Dec 18 1737: | Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, died in Cremona, Italy, aged about 93. |
| Jul 27 1741: | Antonio Vivaldi, composer and violinist, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 63. |
| Apr 13 1742: | World première performance of Messiah, an oratorio written by George Frideric Handel, in Dublin, Ireland. |
| Feb 19 1743: | Luigi Boccherini, composer and cellist, born in Lucca, Italy. |
| Oct 17 1744: | Giuseppe Guarneri, violin maker, died in Cremona, Italy, at the age of 46. |
| Jun 19 1747: | Alessandro Marcello, composer, died in Padua, Italy, at the age of 77. |
| Apr 21 1749: | First public performance of Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel in Vauxhall Gardens, London. |
| Apr 27 1749: | Command performance of Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel in Green Park, London, for King George II, as part of a celebration commemorating the ending of the War of the Austrian Succession by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. |
| Jul 28 1750: | Death of Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, in Leipzig, Germany, at the age of 65. |
| Aug 18 1750: | Antonio Salieri, composer and conductor, born in Legnago, northern Italy. |
| Jan 17 1751: | Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, composer, died in Venice, Italy, at the age of 79. |
| Jan 27 1756: | Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musician and composer, in Salzburg, Austria. |
| Apr 14 1759: | George Frideric Handel, composer, died in London, England, at the age of 74. |
| Oct 05 1762: | World première performance of Christoph von Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice, held in Vienna, Austria. |
| Jun 25 1767: | Georg Philipp Telemann, composer, died in Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 86. |
| Dec 16 1770: | Probable birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, born in Bonn, Germany. |
| Mar 05 1778: | Thomas Arne, composer, died in London, England, at the age of 67. |
| Jun 18 1778: | World première performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 31 in D major, in Paris, France, hence its nickname, Paris Symphony. |
| May 18 1779: | World première performance of Gluck's opera Iphigénie en Tauride in Paris, France. |
| Sep 06 1781: | Birth of Vincent Novello, in London, England. Novello was a musician and music publisher, establishing the firm that became Novello and Co. |
| Oct 27 1782: | Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer, born in Genoa, Italy. |
| Sep 12 1764: | Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer, especially noted for keyboard music, died in Paris, France, at the age of 80. |
| Feb 11 1785: | World première performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K466, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Mar 10 1785: | World première performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Minor, K467, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Nov 17 1785: | World première performance of Mozart's orchestral piece Maueriche Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Musi) at a funeral in Vienna, Austria. |
| Dec 09 1785: | First concert performance of Mozart's orchestral piece Maueriche Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music) Vienna, Austria. |
| May 01 1786: | World première performance of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, at the Burgtheater, Vienna, directed by the composer. |
| Nov 18 1786: | Probable date of birth of composer Carl Maria von Weber, in Eutin, Germany. |
| Dec 04 1786: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed the score of his Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Oct 29 1787: | World première performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, at the Teatro di Praga (now the Estates Theatre) in Prague. |
| Nov 15 1787: | Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, composer best known for operas, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 73. |
| Aug 10 1788: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart complets the composition of his Symphony No. 41 in C major, nicknamed Jupiter, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Dec 14 1788: | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, died in Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 74. |
| Feb 21 1791: | Carl Czerny, pianist and composer, born in Vienna, Austria. |
| Mar 11 1791: | World première performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 92 in G major, the Oxford Symphony, in London, England. |
| Sep 30 1791: | World première performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, in Vienna, with the composer conducting. |
| Mar 03 1791: | Mozart completed the composition of Fantasy in F Minor for Mechanical Organ, K608. |
| Apr 16 1791: | World première performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K550, in Vienna. |
| Aug 19 1791: | World première performance of Mozart's Fantasy and Rondo in C Minor, K517, in Vienna. |
| Dec 05 1791: | Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musician and composer, in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 34. |
| Feb 29 1792: | Gioachino Rossini, composer, born in Pesaro, Italy. |
| Jan 31 1797: | Franz Schubert, composer especially known for lieder or songs, born in Vienna, Austria. |
| Nov 29 1797: | Gaetano Donizetti, opera composer, born in Bergamo, Lombardy, in the north of Italy. |
| Apr 02 1800: | World première performance of Symphony No. 1 in C major (Opus 21), composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, in Vienna, Austria. |
| May 29 1801: | First performance of Franz Josef Haydn's oratorio Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), in Vienna, Austria. |
| Nov 03 1801: | Vincenzo Bellini, opera composer, born in Catania, Sicily. |
| Apr 05 1803: | World première performance of Symphony No. 2 in D major, (Opus 36), composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Dec 11 1803: | Hector Berlioz, composer, born in La Côte-Saint-André, France. |
| Jun 01 1804: | Mikhail Glinka, composer, born in Novospasskoye, a small village in the Smolensk region of Russia. |
| Apr 07 1805: | First public performance of Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Opus 55), nicknamed the Eroica, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, in Vienna, Austria. |
| May 28 1805: | Luigi Boccherini, composer and cellist, died in Madrid, Spain, at the age of 62. |
| Mar 29 1806: | World première performance of Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 (Opus 72a) in Vienna, Austria. |
| Dec 23 1806: | World première performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major (Opus 61) at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, with Franz Clement as the soloist. |
| Dec 22 1808: | A remarkable concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, that consisted of nine premières of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by the composer. Among the works were the Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6. the Choral Fantasy, and the Fourth Piano Concerto (with Beethoven as the soloist). The orchestra was under-rehearsed, the concert hall was very cold, the audience was not enthused, and the concert was not a success. It was also long, lasting over four hours. |
| Feb 03 1809: | Felix Mendelssohn, composer, born in Hamburg, Germany. |
| May 31 1809: | Joseph Haydn, composer, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 77. |
| Mar 01 1810: | Frédéric Chopin, pianist and composer, born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. |
| Jun 08 1810: | Robert Schumann, composer, born in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. |
| Aug 05 1811: | Birth of composer Ambroise Thomas, best known for his opera Hamlet, in Metz, France. |
| Oct 22 1811: | Franz Liszt, composer and pianist, born in Doborján, a village now part of Hungary. |
| Nov 28 1811: | World première performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, the Emperor Concerto, in Vienna, Austria. |
| May 22 1813: | Richard Wagner, composer best known for his operas, born in Leipzig, Germany. |
| Oct 10 1813: | Probable birthdate of Giuseppe Verdi, composer best known for his operas, born in Le Roncole, a village in northern Italy. |
| Dec 08 1813: | First public performance of Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92), composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Feb 27 1814: | First public performance of Symphony No. 8 in F Major (Opus 93), composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Feb 20 1816: | World première performance of Rossini's opera Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) at the Teatro Argentina, in Rome, Italy. |
| Jan 25 1817: | World première performance of Gioachino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola at Teatro Valle, in Rome, Italy. |
| Nov 11 1817: | World première performance of Gioachino Rossini's opera Armida, at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy. |
| Jun 18 1818: | Charles Gounod, composer, born in Paris, France. |
| Apr 18 1819: | Franz von Suppé, composer best known for his light operas, born in Split, Dalmatia, now in Croatia. |
| Apr 11 1819: | Charles Hallé, composer, conductor, and founder of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England, born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany. |
| Jun 20 1819: | Birth of Jacques (Jacob) Offenbach, composer especially known for operettas, in Cologne, Germany. |
| Sep 13 1819: | Clara Wieck, pianist and future wife of Robert Schumann, born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. |
| Oct 08 1820: | World première performance of the overture to Weber's opera Der Freischütz (The Marksman) in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| Apr 27 1821: | Henry Willis, pipe organ builder, born in London, England. |
| Jun 18 1821: | World première performance of Weber's opera Der Freischutz (The Marksman) in Berlin, Germany. |
| Dec 22 1821: | Giovanni Bottesini, composer and double-bass player, born in Crema, Lombardy, Italy. |
| Dec 10 1822: | César Franck, composer, born in Liège, Belgium. |
| Jan 27 1823: | Édouard Lalo, violinist and composer, born in Lille, France. |
| Mar 02 1824: | Bedrich Smetana, composer, born in Litomysl, in Bohemia, now Czech Republic. |
| May 07 1824: | World première performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Choral Symphony, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Sep 04 1824: | Anton Bruckner, composer, born in Ansfelden, Austria. |
| May 07 1825: | Death of Antonio Salieri, composer and conductor, in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 74. |
| Jun 05 1826: | Death of Carl Maria von Weber in London, England, at the age of 39. |
| Mar 26 1827: | Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 56. |
| Mar 29 1827: | The funeral of composer Ludwig van Beethoven was held in the afternoon in Vienna, Austria. An estimated 20,000 people turned out to watch the funeral procession. |
| Aug 20 1828: | World première performance of Giaochino Rossini's opera Le Comte Ory at the Paris Opéra |
| Nov 19 1828: | Franz Schubert, composer especially known for lieder or songs, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 31. |
| Sep 19 1829: | Birth of Gustav Schirmer, founder of Schirmer music publishers, in Konigsee, Saxony, Germany. |
| Nov 28 1829: | Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer, born in Vikhvatinets, Russia. |
| Oct 11 1830: | World première performance of Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as the soloist. |
| Dec 26 1830: | World première performance of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena, at the Teatro Carcano, Milan, Italy. |
| Mar 06 1831: | World première performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera La Sonnambula, at the Teatro Carcano, Milan, Italy. |
| Jun 28 1831: | Birth of violinist Joseph Joachim in Kittsee, then in Hungary, now in Austria. |
| Oct 17 1831: | World première performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Opus 25 in Munich, Germany. |
| May 12 1832: | World première performance of Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan, northern Italy. |
| May 07 1833: | Johannes Brahms, composer, born in Hamburg, Germany. |
| May 13 1833: | World première performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony (Symphony No. 4), in London England, at a London Philharmonic Society concert. The performance was conducted by the composer. |
| Nov 12 1833: | Alexander Borodin, composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| Sep 26 1835: | World première performance of Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, at the Teatro San Carlo, in Naples, Italy. |
| Oct 09 1835: | Camille Saint-Saëns, composer, born in Paris. |
| Sep 23 1835: | Vincenzo Bellini, opera composer, died in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, France, at the age of 33. |
| Nov 18 1836: | Sir William Gilbert, librettist, born in London, England. |
| Jan 06 1838: | Max Bruch, composer, born in Cologne, Germany. |
| Sep 10 1838: | World première performance of Hector Berlioz's opera, Benvenuto Cellini, at the Paris Opera, France. |
| Oct 25 1838: | Georges Bizet, composer probably best known for the opera Carmen, born in Paris, France. |
| Mar 21 1839: | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, born in Karevo, Russia. |
| Jul 07 1839: | Giovanni Bottesini, composer and double-bass player, died in Parma, north-central Italy, at the age of 67. |
| Sep 12 1839: | Robert Schumann married Clara Wieck, at Schönefeld, near Leipzig, Germany. She was daughter of his piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right. |
| Nov 24 1839: | World première performance of Roméo et Juliette by Hector Berlioz at the Paris Conservatoire, with the composer conducting. |
| Feb 11 1840: | World première performance of Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment from the Opéra-Comique, Paris. |
| May 07 1840: | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer, born in Votkinsk, Russia. |
| May 27 1840: | Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer, died in Nice, France, at the age of 57. |
| Sep 08 1841: | Antonin Dvorák, composer, born in Nelahozeves, near Prague, Czech Republic. |
| Mar 03 1842: | World première performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A minor, the "Scottish" Symphony. The performance took place in Leipzig. |
| May 12 1842: | Jules Massenet, composer best known for opera, born in Montaud, Saint-Étienne, central France. |
| May 13 1842: | Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, born in Lambeth, London, England. |
| Jan 03 1843: | World première performance of Gaetano Donizette's comic opera Don Pasquale at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris. |
| Apr 04 1843: | Birth of Hans Richter, conductor, in Raab, Hungary. He is best known for conducting in 1876 the first complete performance of the Ring Cycle of operas by Richard Wagner. |
| Jun 15 1843: | Edvard Grieg, composer, born in Bergen, Norway. |
| Mar 10 1844: | Pablo de Sarasate, violinist and composer, born in Pamplona, Spain. |
| Mar 18 1844: | Birth of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, in Tikhvin, near St Petersburg, Russia. |
| Mar 13 1845: | World première performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, in Leipzig, Germany, with Ferdinand David as the soloist. |
| May 12 1845: | Gabriel Fauré, composer, born in Pamiers, a village in southwest France. |
| Dec 04 1845: | World première performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor (Opus 54) in Dresden, Germany. |
| Dec 06 1846: | World première performance of Hector Berlioz's dramatic work La Damnation de Faust at the Opéra-Comique, Paris. |
| Mar 14 1847: | World première performance of Verdi's opera Macbeth at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy. |
| Nov 04 1847: | Felix Mendelssohn, composer, died in Leipzig, Germany, at the age of 38. |
| Feb 27 1848: | Hubert Parry, composer best known for choral music, born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, UK. |
| Apr 08 1848: | Gaetano Donizetti, opera composer, died in Bergamo, Lombardy, in the north of Italy, at the age of 50. |
| Oct 17 1849: | Frédéric Chopin, pianist and composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 39. |
| Mar 11 1851: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy. |
| Jan 19 1853: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera It Trovatore, at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, Italy. |
| Mar 06 1853: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy. |
| Sep 01 1854: | Birth of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer best known for the opera Hansel and Gretel, in Siegburg, Germany. |
| Jan 20 1855: | Ernest Chausson, composer, born in Paris, France. |
| Jul 29 1856: | Robert Schumann, composer, died in Bonn, Germany, at the age of 46. |
| Feb 15 1857: | Mikhail Glinka, composer, died in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 52. |
| Mar 12 1857: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy. |
| Jun 02 1857: | Birth of Edward Elgar, composer, in Broadheath, Worcestershire, UK. |
| Jul 15 1857: | Carl Czerny, pianist and composer, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 66. |
| Feb 24 1858: | Birth of Arnold Dolmetsch in Le Mans, France. Dolmetsch was an early music specialist and instrument maker especially associated with the revival of the recorder. |
| Jul 16 1858: | Eugène Ysaÿe, composer and violinist, born in Liège, Belgium. |
| Dec 22 1858: | Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. |
| Mar 19 1859: | World première performance of Faust, an opera by Charles Gounod, at the Théatre-Lyrique in Paris, France. |
| Nov 22 1859: | Cecil Sharp, English folk music and dance collector, born in Denmark Hill, London, England. |
| Jul 07 1860: | Gustav Mahler, composer, born in Kaliste, Bohemia, now in the Czech Republic. |
| Nov 06 1860: | Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, born in the village of Kurylówka, now in Ukraine. |
| Aug 09 1861: | Death of Vincent Novello, in Nice, France, at the age of 79. Novello was a musician and music publisher, establishing the firm that became Novello and Co. |
| Jan 29 1862: | Birth of Frederick Delius, composer, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. |
| Jan 30 1862: | Birth of conductor Walter Damrosch in Breslau, Silesia (now in Poland). |
| Jun 11 1864: | Richard Strauss, composer, born in Munich, Germany. |
| Dec 08 1864: | Jean Sibelius, composer, born in Hämeenlinna, Finland. |
| Jun 09 1865: | Carl Nielsen, composer, born in Sortelung, Denmark. |
| Oct 01 1865: | Paul Dukas, composer, born in Paris, France. |
| Jun 10 1865: | World première performance of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, at the Munich Opera with Hans von Bülow conducting. |
| May 17 1866: | Erik Satie, composer, born in Honfleur, France. |
| Mar 11 1867: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlo, at the Théâtre Impérial de lÂ’Opéra (now the Paris Opera) in Paris, France. |
| Mar 25 1867: | Arturo Toscanini, conductor, born in Parma, in northern Italy. |
| Apr 27 1867: | World première performance of the opera Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, at the Thèâtre Lyrique, Paris. |
| Jul 27 1867: | Enrique Granados, composer and pianist, born in Lleida, Catalonia, southeastern Spain. |
| Mar 09 1868: | First public performance of Ambroise Thomas's opera Hamlet at the Paris Opéra, France. |
| Jun 21 1868: | World première performance of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Munich, Germany. |
| Nov 13 1868: | Gioachino Rossini, composer, died in Passy, a district in Paris, France, at the age of 76. |
| Mar 03 1869: | Birth of Sir Henry Wood, conductor best known for his association with the Proms concerts, in London, England. |
| Sep 06 1869: | Walford Davies, composer, born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. |
| Sep 22 1869: | World première performance of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, at the National Theatre, Munich, Germany. This is the first of the Ring Cycle operas. |
| Apr 30 1870: | Franz Lehár, composer best known for his light operas, born in Komárno, now in Slovakia. |
| Jun 26 1870: | World première performance of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre at the National Theatre, Munich, Germany. This is the second of the Ring Cycle operas. |
| Mar 29 1871: | Queen Victoria officially opened the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. |
| Dec 24 1871: | World première performance of Verdi's opera Aida, at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Egypt. |
| Mar 31 1872: | Birth of Sergei Diaghilev, ballet impressario and founder of the Ballet Russes, born in Selischi, Russia. Through his commissions, he was responsible for much fine music in the early twentieth century. |
| Oct 12 1872: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England. |
| Apr 01 1873: | Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist, born in Semyonovo, Russia. |
| Nov 02 1873: | World première performance of Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Opus 56a, in Vienna, Austria. |
| Jan 27 1874: | World première performance of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. |
| May 22 1874: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's Requiem Mass, in the cathedral of Milan, Italy. |
| Jul 26 1874: | Serge Koussevitzky, conductor best known for his association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, born in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia. |
| Sep 21 1874: | Gustav Holst, composer, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. |
| Jan 15 1875: | Inaugural performance at the Opéra Garnier, aka the Paris Opéra, in Paris, France. |
| Apr 04 1875: | Pierre Monteux, conductor, born in Paris, France. |
| Feb 02 1875: | Fritz Kreisler, violinist, born in Vienna, Austria. |
| Mar 03 1875: | World première performance of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France. |
| Mar 07 1875: | Maurice Ravel, composer, born in Ciboure, southwest France. |
| Mar 25 1875: | World première performance of Trial by Jury, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Royalty Theatre, London, England. Though their second collaboration, this was their first hit. |
| Jun 03 1875: | Georges Bizet, composer probably best known for the opera Carmen, died in Paris, France, at the age of 36. |
| Aug 16 1876: | World première performance of Siegfried, the third of four operas in the Ring cycle by Richard Wagner. The opera was performed at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, and was conducted by Hans Richter. |
| Nov 23 1876: | Manuel de Falla, composer, born in Cádiz, Spain. |
| Dec 29 1876: | Pablo Casals, cellist, born in El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain. |
| Nov 17 1877: | World première performance of The Sorcerer, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Opera Comique, London, England. |
| Dec 30 1877: | World première performance of Brahm's Symphony No. 2, conducted by Hans Richter, in Vienna, Austria. |
| May 25 1878: | World première performance of H.M.S. Pinafore, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Opera Comique, London, England. |
| Feb 26 1879: | Frank Bridge, composer, born in Brighton, England. |
| Mar 29 1879: | World première performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, in Moscow, Russia. |
| Apr 29 1879: | Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor, born in St. Helens, Lancashire, England. |
| Jul 09 1879: | Ottorino Respighi, composer, born in Bologna, Italy. |
| Aug 13 1879: | John Ireland, composer, born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, England. |
| Oct 21 1879: | Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer best known for Chants d'Auvergne, born in Annonay, a town in south-central France. |
| Dec 04 1879: | Hamilton Harty, composer and conductor especially associated with the Hallé Orchestra, born in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland. |
| Dec 31 1879: | World première performance of The Pirates of Penzance, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City, USA. |
| Apr 03 1880: | First British performance of The Pirates of Penzance, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Opera Comique in London, England. |
| Apr 23 1880: | Birth of Michel Fokine, ballet choreographer and dancer best known for his work with the Ballet Russes, in St Petersburg, Russia. |
| Oct 05 1880: | Death of Jacques (Jacob) Offenbach, composer especially known for operettas, in Paris, France, at the age of 61. |
| Oct 12 1880: | Birth of Healey Willan, organist and composer best known for church choral music, in London, England. |
| Jan 04 1881: | World première performance of the Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms, conducted by the composer. The performance took place at the University of Breslau, Poland. |
| Feb 10 1881: | World première performance of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Opéra-Comique, Paris. |
| Feb 22 1881: | World première performance of the Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch. The soloist was Joseph Joachim, and the performance was in Liverpool, England. |
| Mar 28 1881: | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, died in St Petersburgh, Russia, at the age of 42. |
| Mar 24 1881: | World première performance of the revised version of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra at La Scala, Milan, Italy. |
| Apr 23 1881: | World première performance of Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Opera Comique, London. |
| Oct 10 1881: | Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, was transferred to the Savoy Theatre, London, as the inaugural event at the new theatre, which was innovative in being the first worldwide to use entirely electric lighting. |
| Apr 18 1882: | Leopold Stokowski, conductor, born in London, England. |
| Jun 17 1882: | Igor Stravinsky, composer, born in Oranienbaum, Russia. |
| Aug 20 1882: | World première performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, in Moscow. |
| Nov 25 1882: | World première performance of Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England. |
| Feb 13 1883: | Richard Wagner, composer best known for his operas, died in Venice, Italy, at the age of 69. |
| Mar 15 1883: | Pablo de Sarasate, violinist, performed Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Although Bruch had written the piece for Sarasate in 1879, this was the first time the violinist had performed the piece in a concert. |
| May 04 1883: | Birth of Nikolai Malko, conductor, in Semaky, Ukraine. |
| Oct 22 1883: | Metropolitan Opera in New York opens for the first time. The inaugural performance was of Charles Gounod's Faust. |
| Nov 08 1883: | Sir Arnold Bax, composer, born in Streatham, London, England. |
| Jan 05 1884: | World première performance of Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England. |
| May 12 1884: | Bedrich Smetana, composer, died in Prague, now Czech Republic, at the age of 60. |
| Mar 14 1885: | World première performance of The Mikado, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England. |
| May 18 1885: | Otto Klemperer, conductor, born in Breslau, now in Poland. |
| Jul 12 1885: | Birth of George Butterworth, composer, in London, England. |
| Apr 19 1886: | World première performance in its final form of the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia). |
| Jul 31 1886: | Franz Liszt, composer and pianist, died in Bayreuth, Germany, at the age of 74. |
| Jan 22 1887: | World première performance of Ruddigore, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England. |
| Jan 28 1887: | Arthur Rubinstein, pianist, born in Lódz, Poland. |
| Feb 27 1887: | Alexander Borodin, composer, died in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the age of 53. |
| Mar 05 1887: | Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| Aug 22 1889: | César Franck completes the composition of his Symphony in D minor, the only symphony he produced. |
| Oct 03 1888: | World première performance of The Yeomen of the Guard, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England. |
| Feb 17 1889: | World première performance of César Franck's Symphony in D minor at the Paris Conservatory in Paris, France. |
| Apr 08 1889: | Sir Adrian Boult, conductor, born in Chester, Cheshire, England. |
| May 08 1889: | Edward Elgar, composer, married Alice Roberts. She supported and encouraged him in his musical career. |
| Dec 07 1889: | World première performance of The Gondoliers, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England. |
| Feb 02 1890: | World première performance of Antonin Dvorák's Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88, in Prague. |
| Nov 08 1890: | César Franck, composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 67. |
| Apr 27 1891: | Sergei Prokofiev, composer, born in Sontsovka, Ukraine. |
| Aug 02 1891: | Sir Arthur Bliss, composer, born in London, England. |
| Apr 22 1892: | Édouard Lalo, violinist and composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 69. |
| Oct 17 1892: | Birth of Herbert Howells, composer, in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England. |
| Dec 18 1892: | World première performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker in the Mariinsky Theatre, in St Petersburg, Russia. |
| Feb 01 1893: | World première performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut in the Teatro Regio in Turin, northwest Italy. |
| Feb 09 1893: | World première performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff at La Scala, Milan, Italy. |
| Feb 18 1893: | Hector Berlioz's dramatic work La Damnation de Faust first performed as an opera, at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. |
| Feb 21 1893: | Andrés Segovia, classical guitarist, born in Linares, Spain. |
| May 26 1893: | Birth of Eugene Goossens, composer and conductor, in Camden Town, London, England. |
| Oct 07 1893: | World première performance of Utopia (Limited), an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London. |
| Oct 18 1893: | Charles Gounod, composer, died in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris, France, at the age of 75. |
| Nov 06 1893: | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer, died in St Petersburg, Russia, at the age of 53. |
| Dec 06 1893: | World première performance of Antonin Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World", by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Anton Seidl, at Carnegie Hall, New York. |
| Dec 23 1893: | World première performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel, in Weimar, Germany. |
| Mar 16 1894: | World première performance of Thaïs, an opera by Jules Massenet, at the Paris Opera. |
| Apr 27 1894: | Nicolas Slonimsky, musician and conductor best known for the Lexicon of Musical Invective, born in St Petersburg, Russia. |
| Jun 29 1894: | World première performance of Lady Radnor's Suite, compoed by Hubert Parry, at St. James Hall, London. Lady Radnor conducted her chamber orchestra in this performance. |
| Aug 28 1894: | Karl Böhm, conductor, born in Graz, Austria. |
| Oct 30 1894: | Peter Warlock, pseudonym used by Philip Heseltine, composer and music critic, born in London, England. |
| Nov 20 1894: | Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer, died in St. Petersburg, at the age of 64. |
| Dec 22 1894: | World première performance of Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun at a National Society of Music concert in Paris, France. |
| Dec 31 1894: | Ernest John Moeran, composer, born in Heston, Hounslow, London, UK. |
| Apr 29 1895: | Malcolm Sargent, known principally as a conductor, born in Ashford, Kent, England. |
| May 21 1895: | Franz von Suppé, composer best known for his light operas, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 76. |
| Jul 10 1895: | Carl Orff, composer, born in Munich, Germany. |
| Aug 06 1895: | Death of Gustav Schirmer, founder of Schirmer music publishers, in Thuringia, Germany, at the age of 65. |
| Aug 10 1895: | First Queen's Hall Promenade Concert took place and was conducted by Henry Wood. The concert series later became famous as 'the Proms'. |
| Oct 25 1895: | Charles Hallé, composer, conductor, and founder of the Hallé Orchestra, died in Manchester, England, at the age of 79. |
| Feb 01 1896: | World première performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème in the Teatro Regio in Turin, northwest Italy. The performance was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. |
| Feb 12 1896: | Death of composer Ambroise Thomas, best known for his opera Hamlet, in Paris, France. |
| May 20 1896: | Clara Schumann, pianist and widow of composer Robert Schumann, died in Bonn, Germany, at the age of 76. |
| Oct 11 1896: | Anton Bruckner, composer, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 72. |
| Apr 03 1897: | Johannes Brahms, composer, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 63. |
| May 29 1897: | Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer, born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic. |
| Sep 26 1898: | George Gershwin, composer best known for Broadway tunes, born in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Oct 05 1898: | World première performance of Caractacus, a choral work composed by Edward Elgar. The work was commissioned for the Leeds Festival. |
| Jun 10 1899: | Ernest Chausson, composer, died in Limay, a suburb of Paris, France, in a bicycle accident at the age of 44. |
| Jun 19 1899: | World première performance of the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar, at St James's Hall, London. |
| Jul 30 1899: | Gerald Moore, pianist and accompanist, born in Watford, England. |
| Nov 18 1899: | Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, born in Budapest, Hungary. |
| Dec 02 1899: | Sir John Barbirolli, conductor especially associated with the Hallé Orchestra, born in London, England. |
| Jan 14 1900: | World première performance of Puccini's opera Tosca, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. |
| Nov 14 1900: | Aaron Copland, composer, born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. |
| Nov 22 1900: | Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, died in London, England, at the age of 58. |
| Jan 27 1901: | Giuseppe Verdi, composer best known for his operas, died in Milan, Italy, at the age of 87. |
| Feb 02 1901: | Jascha Heifetz, violinist, born in Vilnius, Lithuania. |
| Feb 11 1901: | Henry Willis, pipe organ builder, died in London, England, at the age of 79. |
| Jul 14 1901: | Birth of Gerald Finzi, composer, in London, England. |
| Oct 27 1901: | World première performance of the complete Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The performance took place in Moscow with the composer as the soloist. |
| Nov 22 1901: | JoaquĂn Rodrigo, composer and pianist, born in Sagunto, Valencia, Spain. |
| Jan 11 1902: | Birth of Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist, in Louviers, northern France. |
| Mar 29 1902: | William Walton, composer, born in Oldham, Lancashire, UK. |
| Feb 06 1903: | Claudio Arrau, pianist, born in Chillán, Chile. |
| Mar 28 1903: | Rudolf Serkin, pianist, born in Cheb, in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. |
| Apr 17 1903: | Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist, born in Ekaterinoslav, now in the Ukraine. |
| Jun 06 1903: | First London performance of The Dream of Gerontius, a choral work by Edward Elgar. In earlier performances, the work was not well received, but at this performance it was recognized as a master-work. |
| Oct 01 1903: | Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, born in Kiev, Ukraine. |
| Feb 08 1904: | World première performance of Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D Minor in Helsinki, Finland, with the composer conducting. |
| May 01 1904: | Antonin Dvorák, composer, died in Prague, Czech Republic, at the age of 52. |
| Oct 18 1904: | World première performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5, in Cologne, Germany, conducted by the composer. |
| Jan 02 1905: | Sir Michael Tippett, composer, born in London, England. |
| Dec 09 1905: | World première performance of Richard Strauss' opera Salome, at the Hofoper in Dresden, Germany. |
| Apr 09 1906: | Antal Doráti, conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary. |
| Aug 23 1906: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' orchestral piece Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert. |
| Aug 15 1907: | Death of violinist Joseph Joachim in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 76. |
| Sep 04 1907: | Edvard Grieg, composer, died in Bergen, Norway, at the age of 64. |
| Jan 26 1908: | Stéphane Grappelli, jazz violinist, born in Paris, France. |
| Feb 08 1908: | World première performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Opus 27, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The performance was conducted by the composer. |
| Apr 05 1908: | Herbert von Karajan, conductor best known for his association with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, born in Salzburg, Austria. |
| Mar 15 1908: | World première performance of Ravel's Rhapsodie espagnole, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France. |
| Jun 21 1908: | Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, in Lyubensk, Russia, at the age of 54. |
| Sep 30 1908: | David Oistrakh, violinist, born in Odessa, now in the Ukraine. |
| Dec 03 1908: | World première performance of Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 in A, given in Manchester by the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Hans Richter, to whom the work was dedicated. |
| Feb 22 1909: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' orchestral piece In the Fen Country, at the Queen's Hall, London, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. |
| Nov 28 1909: | World première performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, with the composer as the soloist, accompanied by the New York Symphony Society (now New York Symphony Orchestra), conducted by Walter Damrosch. The performance took place at the New Theatre (later Century theatre), New York. |
| Mar 10 1910: | Samuel Barber, composer, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. |
| Sep 06 1910: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in Gloucester Cathedral, England. |
| Oct 12 1910: | World première performance of A Sea Symphony composed by Vaughan Williams. The composer conducted the piece at the Leeds Festival. Coincidentally, it was also his 38th birthday. |
| Nov 10 1910: | World première performance of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto, at a Philharmonia Society concert in London. The soloist was Fritz Kreisler, to whom the work is dedicated. |
| Dec 10 1910: | World première performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Fanciulla del West, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The lead role was played by Enrico Caruso, Arturo Toscanini conducted, and the composer was in the audience. This was the first opera premiêre at the Met. |
| Jan 11 1911: | World première performance of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden, Germany. |
| Mar 08 1911: | Alan Hovhaness, composer, born in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. |
| May 18 1911: | Gustav Mahler, composer, died in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 50. |
| May 24 1911: | World première performance of Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E, given in London, England. The work was dedicated to the memory of Edward VII, who had recently died. |
| May 29 1911: | Sir William Gilbert, librettist, died at Grim's Dyke, Harrow, England, at the age of 74. |
| Jun 13 1911: | World première performance of Igor Stravinksy's ballet Petrushka, at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, France, conducted by Pierre Monteux with Vaslav Nijinsky dancing the title role. |
| Apr 22 1912: | Kathleen Ferrier, contralto, born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. |
| Jun 08 1912: | World première performance of the ballet Daphnis et Chloé. with music by Maurice Ravel, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France. The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina, members of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, danced the title roles. |
| Aug 13 1912: | Jules Massenet, composer best known for opera, died in Paris, France, at the age of 70. |
| Oct 21 1912: | Georg Solti, conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary. |
| May 29 1913: | World première performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, in Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteuux. |
| Jun 28 1913: | George Lloyd, composer, born in St Ives, Cornwall, England. |
| Oct 02 1913: | World première performance of Falstaff, a symphonic study by Edward Elgar. |
| Oct 24 1913: | Tito Gobbi, baritone and opera performer, born in Bassano del Grappa, northern Italy. |
| Nov 22 1913: | Benjamin Britten, composer, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK. |
| Mar 27 1914: | World première performance of A London Symphony composed by Vaughan Williams. The performance was conducted by Geoffrey Toye. |
| Mar 20 1915: | Sviatoslav Richter, pianist, born in Zhytomyr, now part of Ukraine. |
| Oct 28 1915: | World première performance of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie (Alpine Symphony), by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in Dresden, Germany. The composer conducted the work. |
| Nov 26 1915: | Pianist Earl Wild born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. |
| Dec 09 1915: | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano and opera performer, born in Jarotschin, Prussia, now part of Poland. |
| Dec 19 1915: | Edith Piaf, singer, born in Belleville, Paris, France. |
| Mar 24 1916: | Enrique Granados, pianist and composer, drowned in the English Channel at the age of 48, when the passenger ferry in which he was travelling was torpedoed by a German U-Boat. |
| Apr 09 1916: | World première performance of Noches en los Jardines de España, an orchestral work by Manuel de Falla. The performance took place at the Teatre Real in Madrid, Spain, with José Cubiles as the piano soloist. |
| Apr 22 1916: | Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, born in New York, USA. |
| Aug 05 1916: | Death of George Butterworth, composer, killed by a sniper in France during the Battle of the Somme, at the age of 31. |
| Dec 05 1916: | Death of Hans Richter, conductor, in Bayreuth, Germany, at the age of 73. He is best known for conducting in 1876 the first complete performance of the Ring Cycle of operas by Richard Wagner. |
| Jan 17 1917: | Oskar Morawetz, composer, born in Svetlá nad Sázavou, a town in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic. |
| Mar 27 1917: | World première performance of Puccini's opera La Rondine, at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo, Monaco. |
| May 06 1918: | Birth of Godfrey Ridout, music teacher and composer, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Aug 25 1918: | Composer and pianist Leonard Bernstein born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Sep 29 1918: | World première performance, at an invitation-only event, of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets, at Queen's Hall, London, conducted by Adrian Boult. |
| Oct 07 1918: | Hubert Parry, composer best known for choral music, died in England, at the age of 70. |
| Dec 14 1918: | World première performance of Il Trittico, a work consisting of three one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini, at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York. |
| Oct 27 1919: | World première performance of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in London, England. |
| Oct 10 1920: | First public performance of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets in Birmingham, England, by the City of Birmingham Orchestra conducted by Appleby Matthews. |
| Nov 14 1920: | The first public concert by the community orchestra that later became the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. |
| Sep 26 1921: | Death of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer best known for the opera Hansel and Gretel in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 67. |
| Dec 16 1921: | Camille Saint-Saëns, composer, died in Algiers, at the age of 86. |
| Jan 19 1922: | Dan Gibson, sound recordist, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
| Jan 26 1922: | World première performance of A Pastoral Symphony composed by Vaughan Williams. The performance was conducted by Adrian Boult. |
| Feb 12 1923: | Franco Zeffirelli, film director and opera producer and designer, born in Florence, Italy. |
| Nov 01 1923: | Victoria de los Ángeles, soprano and opera performer, born in Barcelona, Spain. |
| Jan 24 1924: | World première performance of the revised version of Vaughan Williams' song-cycle On Wenlock Edge, arranged for tenor and orchestra. |
| Feb 12 1924: | World première performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, at the Aeolian Hall in New York with the composer as the piano soloist. |
| Apr 15 1924: | Sir Neville Marriner, best known as the founder and conductor of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, born in London, England. |
| Mar 07 1924: | World première performance of Ottorino Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 2, in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| Jun 23 1924: | Cecil Sharp, English folk music and dance collector, died in Hampstead, London, England, at the age of 64. |
| Nov 04 1924: | Gabriel Fauré, composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 69. |
| Nov 29 1924: | Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, died in Brussels, Belgium, at the age of 65. |
| May 28 1925: | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, born Berlin, Germany. |
| Jun 01 1925: | Erik Satie, composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 59. |
| Aug 15 1925: | Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
| Nov 17 1925: | Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor, born in Schenectady, New York, USA. |
| Dec 03 1925: | World première performance of George Gershwin's Concerto in F, at Carnegie Hall, New York, by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Damrosch, with the composer as the soloist. |
| Apr 25 1926: | World première performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. |
| May 12 1926: | World première performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The work was performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic and conducted by Nikolai Malko. |
| Nov 26 1926: | Joan Sutherland, mezzo-soprano and opera performer, born in Sydney, Australia. |
| Feb 10 1927: | Leontyne Price, soprano and opera singer, born in Laurel, Mississippi, USA. |
| Mar 27 1927: | Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, then part of the USSR. |
| Sep 25 1927: | Sir Colin Davis, conductor, born in Weybridge, Surrey, England. |
| Oct 02 1928: | World première performance of Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto, Opus 57, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Aage Oxenvad, clarinettist, for whom the work was written, as the soloist. |
| Nov 22 1928: | World première performance of Ravel's Bolero, music for a ballet, at the Paris Opera, France. |
| Dec 15 1928: | Ida Haendel, violinist, born in Chelm, Poland. |
| Mar 04 1929: | Bernard Haitink, conductor probably best known for his association with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
| Apr 06 1929: | André Previn, pianist and conductor, born in Berlin, Germany. |
| May 25 1929: | Beverly Sills, soprano and opera singer, born in Brooklyn, USA. |
| Aug 19 1929: | Birth of Sergei Diaghilev, ballet impressario and founder of the Ballet Russes, died in Venice, Italy, at the age of 57. Through his commissions, he was responsible for much fine music in the early twentieth century. |
| Oct 05 1929: | Simon Streatfeild, conductor, born in Windsor, England. |
| Jul 25 1930: | Maureen Forrester, contralto, born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
| Sep 29 1930: | Richard Bonynge, conductor and pianist, born in Sydney, Australia. |
| Oct 08 1930: | Toru Takemitsu, composer, born in Tokyo, Japan. |
| Dec 17 1930: | Peter Warlock, pseudonym used by Philip Heseltine, composer and music critic, died in Eynsford, Kent, England, at the age of 36. |
| May 12 1931: | Eugène Ysaÿe, composer and violinist, died in Brussels, Belgium, at the age of 72 |
| Oct 03 1931: | Carl Nielsen, composer, died in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the age of 76. |
| Dec 31 1931: | First radio performance of a complete opera from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The broadcast featured Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel. |
| Jan 22 1932: | World première performance of Moeran's orchestral works entitled Lonely Waters and Whythorne's Shadow at the Queen's Hall, London, conducted by Anthony Bernard. |
| Jan 29 1932: | World première performance of George Gershwin's Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitsky, with the composer as the soloist, in Boston. |
| Feb 08 1932: | John Williams, conductor and composer best known for film scores, born in Long Island, New York, USA. |
| Sep 25 1932: | Glenn Gould, pianist, born in Toronto, Ontario. |
| Nov 11 1932: | Vernon Handley, conductor, born in Enfield, London, England. |
| Jun 26 1933: | Claudio Abbado, conductor, born in Milan, Italy. |
| Jul 15 1933: | Classical guitarist Julian Bream born in London, England. |
| Dec 06 1933: | Henryk Górecki, composer, born in Czernica, Poland. |
| Feb 23 1934: | Death of Edward Elgar, composer, in Worcester, Worcestershire, UK, at the age of 76. |
| Feb 24 1934: | Renata Scotto, soprano and opera performer, born Savona, northwest Italy. |
| May 25 1934: | Gustav Holst, composer, died in London, England, at the age of 49. |
| Jun 10 1934: | Death of Frederick Delius, composer, in Grez-sur-Loing, France, at the age of 72. |
| Jul 12 1934: | Van Cliburn, pianist, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. |
| Sep 08 1934: | Peter Maxwell Davies, composer and conductor, born in Salford, Lancashire, England. |
| Sep 21 1934: | Leonard Cohen, poet and singer-songwriter, born in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
| Nov 07 1934: | World première performance of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the composer as the featured piano soloist. The performance took place in Baltimore, Maryland, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. |
| Feb 26 1935: | World première performance of Bizet's Symphony in C Major, in Basel, Switzerland, sixty years after the composer's death. |
| Apr 10 1935: | World première performance of Vaughan William's Fourth Symphony, given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Adrian Boult. |
| May 17 1935: | Paul Dukas, composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 69. |
| Aug 31 1935: | Itzhak Perlman, violinist, born in Jaffa, Israel. |
| Sep 01 1935: | Seiji Ozawa, conductor, born in Shenyang, China, at that time under Japanese occupation as Manchukuo. |
| Sep 11 1935: | Arvo Pärt, composer, born in Paide, Estonia. |
| Sep 30 1935: | World première performance of Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess, at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, USA. |
| Oct 12 1935: | Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, born in Modena, northern Italy. |
| Dec 01 1935: | World première performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, in Madrid, Spain, by the Madrid Symphony Orchestra with Robert Soetens as the soloist. |
| Mar 29 1936: | Birth of Richard Rodney Bennett, composer, in Broadstairs, Kent, England. |
| Apr 18 1936: | Ottorino Respighi, composer, died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 56. |
| Oct 07 1936: | Charles Dutoit, conductor probably best known for his association with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, born in Lausanne, Switzerland. |
| Apr 29 1936: | Zubin Mehta, conductor, born in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, India. |
| Dec 08 1936: | Malcolm Forsyth, composer, born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
| Jun 08 1937: | World première performance of Carmina Burana, choral work by Carl Orff, in Frankfurt, Germany. |
| Jul 06 1937: | Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist, born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. |
| Jul 11 1937: | George Gershwin, composer best known for Broadway tunes, died in Hollywood, California, USA, at the age of 38. |
| Nov 21 1937: | World première performance of Dmitri Shostakivich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Opus 47, in Leningrad, Russia, by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| Dec 28 1937: | Maurice Ravel, composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 62. |
| Feb 16 1938: | Composer John Corigliano born in New York City, USA. |
| Jul 21 1938: | Anton Kuerti, pianist, born in Vienna, Austria. |
| Aug 08 1938: | Birth of Jacques Hétu, composer, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. |
| Aug 24 1938: | Mason Williams, guitarist and composer probably best known for the piece called Classical Gas, born in Abilene, Texas, USA. |
| Oct 05 1938: | World première performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, at the Royal Albert Hall, at a concert to celebrate the career of Sir Henry Wood. |
| Nov 17 1938: | Gordon Lightfoot, folk singer-songwriter, born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. |
| Jun 07 1939: | Eri Klas, conductor, born in Tallinn, Estonia. |
| Aug 02 1939: | Birth of André Gagnon, pianist and composer, in St-Pacôme-de-Kamouraska, Québec, Canada. |
| Nov 26 1939: | Tina Turner, singer, born in Nutbush, Tennessee, USA. |
| Dec 16 1939: | Philip Langridge, tenor and opera performer, born in Hawkhurst, Kent, England. |
| Feb 28 1940: | Death of Arnold Dolmetsch in Haslemere, Surrey, England, at the age of 82. Dolmetsch was an early music specialist and instrument maker especially associated with the revival of the recorder. |
| Sep 07 1940: | In the midst of World War II, the last Proms concert took place at Queen's Hall, conducted by Sir Henry Wood. In May 1941, the Hall was destroyed in a bomb raid. |
| Nov 09 1940: | World première performance of Concierto de Aranjuez, composed by Joaquín Rodrigo, by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain. |
| Jan 10 1941: | Frank Bridge, composer, died in Eastbourne, England, at the age of 61. |
| Jan 21 1941: | Plácido Domingo, tenor, born in Madrid, Spain. |
| Feb 19 1941: | Hamilton Harty, composer and conductor especially associated with the Hallé Orchestra, died in Hove, England, at the age of 61. |
| Mar 11 1941: | Sir Walford Davies, composer, died in Bristol, England, at the age of 71. |
| Apr 05 1941: | Dave Swarbrick, folk musician and fiddle player, born in New Malden, a subsurb of London, England. |
| Apr 24 1941: | John Williams, classical guitarist, born in Melbourne, Australia. |
| May 21 1941: | Martin Carthy, folk singer and guitarist, born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. |
| May 24 1941: | Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. |
| Jun 01 1941: | Edo de Waart, conductor, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
| Jun 29 1941: | Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, died in New York, USA, at the age of 80. |
| Jul 28 1941: | Riccardo Muti, conductor, born in Naples, Italy. |
| Sep 10 1941: | Christopher Hogwood, conductor and founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, born in Nottingham, England. |
| Oct 13 1941: | Paul Simon, singer-songwriter, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. |
| Mar 28 1942: | Samuel Ramey, bass-baritone singer and opera performer, born in Colby, Kansas, USA. |
| Jun 18 1942: | Paul McCartney, singer-songwriter, born in Liverpool, England. |
| Jul 08 1942: | World première performance of Moeran's Violin Concerto, with Arthur Catterall, to whom the work was dedicated, as the soloist and Sir Henry Wood as the conductor. |
| Aug 22 1942: | Death of Michel Fokine, ballet choreographer and dancer best known for his work with the Ballet Russes, in New York, USA, at the age of 62. |
| Oct 16 1942: | World première performance of the ballet Rodeo, with music composed by Aaron Copland, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
| Oct 28 1942: | World première performance of the opera Cappriccio by Richard Strauss, at the Nationaltheater München, Germany. |
| Nov 15 1942: | Birth of Daniel Baremboim, conductor and pianist, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
| Dec 07 1942: | Birth of Harry Chapin, singer-songwriter, in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. |
| Mar 12 1943: | World première performance of Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, played by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens, who commissioned the piece. |
| Mar 28 1943: | Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist, died in Beverly Hills, California, USA, at the age of 69. |
| Jun 23 1943: | James Levine, conductor probably best known as the music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. |
| Jun 24 1943: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony, played at a BBC Promenade Concert and conducted by the composer. |
| Nov 03 1943: | Birth of Bert Jansch, guitarist and folk musician, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. |
| Jan 28 1944: | John Tavener, composer, born in Wembley, London, England. |
| Feb 02 1944: | Andrew Davis, conductor, born in Ashridge, Hertfordshire, England. |
| Mar 06 1944: | Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano, born in Gisborne, New Zealand. |
| Apr 16 1944: | Richard Bradshaw, conductor and opera director, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. |
| Aug 08 1944: | Birth of John Renbourn, guitarist and folk musician, in Marylebone, London, England. |
| Aug 19 1944: | Death of Sir Henry Wood, conductor best known for his association with the Proms concerts, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 75. |
| Sep 14 1944: | Martyn Hill, tenor, born in Kent, England. |
| Dec 03 1944: | Birth of Ralph McTell, folk singer and songwriter, in Farnborough, Kent, England. He is probably best known for Streets of London, a staple of the folk repertoire. |
| Dec 04 1944: | Singer-songwriter Anna McGarrigle born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
| Dec 19 1944: | William Christie, conductor and musician specializing in music of the Baroque era, born in Buffalo, New York. |
| Dec 21 1944: | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. |
| Jun 01 1945: | Birth of Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano, in Somerville, New Jersey, USA. |
| Jun 07 1945: | World première performance of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England. |
| Jul 07 1945: | Matti Salminen, bass and opera performer, born in Turku, Finland. |
| Sep 05 1945: | Birth of singer-songwriter Al Stewart in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| Sep 15 1945: | Jessye Norman, soprano, born in Augusta, Georgia, USA. |
| Sep 26 1945: | Bryan Ferry, singer and songwriter, born in Washington, County Durham, England. |
| Nov 12 1945: | Neil Young, singer-songwriter, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Nov 25 1945: | World première performance of Moeran's Cello Concerto, with Peers Coetmore, who later became his wife, as the soloist, at the Capitol Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. |
| Feb 06 1946: | Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
| Aug 04 1946: | Uri Mayer, conductor, born in Târgu-Mures, a town in central Romania. |
| Aug 08 1946: | Juan Pons, baritone, born in Spain. |
| Oct 18 1946: | Howard Shore, composer best known for film scores, especially for The Lord of the Rings, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Nov 14 1946: | Manuel de Falla, composer, died in Alta Gracia, Argentina, at the age of 69. |
| Dec 05 1946: | José Carreras, tenor, born in Barcelona, Spain. |
| Dec 16 1946: | Trevor Pinnock, conductor and harpsichordist, born in Canterbury, England. |
| Jan 06 1947: | Birth of folk singer and songwriter Sandy Denny in Wimbledon, London, England. |
| Jan 10 1947: | Bass-baritone and opera performer James Morris born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. |
| Jan 26 1947: | Michel Sardou, singer, born in Paris, France. |
| Feb 15 1947: | World première performance of Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35, with Jascha Heifetz as the soloist with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. |
| Feb 15 1947: | John Adams, composer especially known for operas, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Apr 19 1947: | Murray Perahia, pianist and conductor, born in New York, USA. |
| Aug 14 1947: | Maddy Prior, folk singer and longtime member of Steeleye Span, born in Blackpool, England. |
| Dec 14 1947: | Christopher Parkening, classical guitarist, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. |
| Jan 09 1948: | Tim Hart, folk singer, musician, and founding member of the folk-rock group Steeleye Span, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. |
| Mar 05 1948: | Richard Hickox, conductor, born in Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England. |
| Mar 28 1948: | Kyung-Wha Chung, violinist, born in Seoul, South Korea. |
| Apr 21 1948: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 6 in E minor, at the Royal Alberta Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. |
| Jul 16 1948: | Pinchas Zukerman, violinist, born in Tel Aviv, Israel. |
| Aug 13 1948: | Kathleen Battle, soprano, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA. |
| Oct 24 1948: | Franz Lehár, composer best known for his light operas, died in Bad Ischl, near Salzburg, Austria, at the age of 78. |
| Feb 09 1949: | Paul Hillier, baritone, born in Dorchester, England. |
| Feb 19 1949: | Simon Jeffes, musician and founder of the Penguin Café Orchestra, born in England. |
| Apr 08 1949: | World première performance of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, with the composer as the pianist. |
| May 16 1949: | Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass and opera performer, born in Sacile, northeast Italy. |
| Jun 08 1949: | Emanuel Ax, pianist, born in Lviv, then in USSR, now in Ukraine. |
| Jul 11 1949: | Guitarist Liona Boyd born in London, England. |
| Aug 12 1949: | Mark Knopfler, guitarist, singer-songwriter and leader of Dire Straits born in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| Sep 08 1949: | Richard Strauss, composer, died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, at the age of 85. |
| Nov 07 1949: | Steven Stucky, composer, born in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA. |
| Nov 12 1949: | André Laplante, pianist, born in Rimouski, Québec, Canada. |
| Nov 29 1949: | Stan Rogers, folk singer-songwriter, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| May 29 1950: | Mory Kanté, singer and musician, born in Kissidougou, Guinea, Africa. |
| Jun 28 1950: | Elmar Oliveira, violinist, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA. |
| Dec 01 1950: | Ernest John Moeran, composer, died in Kenmare, County Kerry, at the age of 55. |
| Dec 22 1950: | Death of conductor Walter Damrosch in New York City, USA, at the age of 88. |
| Mar 01 1951: | Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass baritone and opera performer, born in Reykjavik, Iceland. |
| Jun 04 1951: | Serge Koussevitzky, conductor best known for his association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, died in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, at the age of 76. |
| May 07 1951: | Janina Fialkowska, pianist, born in Montreal, Canada. |
| Aug 15 1951: | Birth of Grzegorz Nowak, conductor, in Poland. |
| Nov 22 1951: | Kent Nagano, conductor, born in Berkeley, California, USA. |
| Mar 24 1952: | Dolora Zajick, mezzo-soprano and opera performer, born in Salem, Oregon, USA. |
| Oct 31 1952: | Incorporation of the Edmonton Symphony Society, the organization responsible for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. |
| Nov 30 1952: | The newly-revived Edmonton Symphony Orchestra gave its first public concert. |
| Jan 14 1953: | World première performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica, in Manchester, England, by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. |
| Feb 04 1953: | Kitaro, composer best known for New Age music, born in Toyohashi, south-central Japan. |
| Mar 05 1953: | Sergei Prokofiev, composer, died in Moscow, Russia, at the age of 61. |
| May 02 1953: | Valery Gergiev, conductor and opera company director, born in Moscow, Russia. |
| May 15 1953: | Mike Oldfield, musician and composer, born in Reading, England. |
| Jun 07 1953: | Johnny Clegg, singer-songwriter, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England. |
| Jul 11 1953: | Bramwell Tovey, conductor, born in England. |
| Jul 15 1953: | Richard Margison, opera performer and tenor, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. |
| Oct 03 1953: | Sir Arnold Bax, composer, died in Cork, Ireland, at the age of 69. |
| Oct 08 1953: | Kathleen Ferrier, contralto, died in London, England, at the age of 41. |
| Oct 09 1953: | Roberto Sierra, composer, born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. |
| Jul 18 1954: | Tobias Picker, composer, born in Manhattan, USA. |
| Nov 16 1954: | Donald Runnicles, conductor, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| May 09 1955: | Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano, born in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Jun 28 1955: | Thomas Hampson, baritone and opera performa, born in Elkhart, Indiana, USA. |
| Aug 14 1955: | Jean Stilwell, mezzo-soprano, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Oct 07 1955: | Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, born in Paris, France. |
| Jan 14 1956: | Ben Heppner, tenor, born in Murrayville, British Columbia, Canada. |
| Apr 14 1956: | Barbara Bonney, soprano, born Montclair, New Jersey, USA. |
| May 02 1956: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' Eighth Symphony, in Manchester, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, to whom the work was dedicated. |
| Sep 27 1956: | Death of Gerald Finzi, composer, in Oxford, England, at the age of 55. |
| Dec 28 1956: | Nigel Kennedy, violinist, born in Brighton, England. |
| Jan 16 1957: | Arturo Toscanini, conductor, died in New York, USA, at the age of 89. |
| Feb 17 1957: | Loreena McKennitt, singer-songwriter, born in Morden, Manitoba, Canada. |
| Aug 18 1957: | Birth of composer Tan Dun in Hunan province, central China. |
| Sep 20 1957: | Jean Sibelius, composer, died in Ainola, Finland, at the age of 91. |
| Sep 27 1957: | Peter Sellars, theatre director particularly known for his opera stagings, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. |
| Nov 04 1957: | Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer best known for Chants d'Auvergne, died in Grigny, France, at the age of 78. |
| Nov 29 1957: | Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer, died in Los Angeles, California, USA, at the age of 60. |
| Mar 05 1958: | World première performance of Fantasía para un gentilhombre, a concerto for guitar and orchestra, composed by Joaquín Rodrigo, in San Francisco, USA. The soloist was Andrés Segovia, who had requested the work from Rodrigo. |
| Apr 02 1958: | World première performance of Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. The work was dedicated to the Royal Philharmonic Society and was first performed at one of the Society's concerts. |
| Jun 21 1958: | Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano, born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
| Jun 30 1958: | Essa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, born in Helsinki, Finland. |
| Jul 26 1958: | Birth of Angela Hewitt, classical pianist, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
| Aug 26 1958: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, died in England, at the age of 85. |
| Sep 22 1958: | Andrea Bocelli, tenor, opera and popular singer, born in Pisa, Italy. |
| Feb 14 1959: | Renée Fleming, soprano, born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. |
| Apr 27 1959: | Louis Lortie, pianist, born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
| Aug 03 1959: | Baritone and opera performer Simon Keenlyside born in London, England. |
| Nov 17 1959: | Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer, died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the age of 72. |
| Dec 25 1959: | Jon Kimura Parker, pianist, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
| Jan 30 1960: | Gerald Finley, bass-baritone and opera performer, born in Montreal, Canada. |
| Jul 17 1960: | Dawn Upshaw, soprano, born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. |
| Jul 23 1960: | Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham born in Roswell, New Mexico, USA. |
| Aug 04 1960: | Deborah Voigt, soprano and opera performer best known for Wagner roles, born in USA. |
| Aug 14 1960: | Sarah Brightman, soprano, sings opera and popular music, born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. |
| Sep 05 1960: | Karita Mattila, soprano and opera performer, born in Somero, western Finland. |
| Jan 11 1961: | Louis Langrée, conductor, born in Mulhouse, France. |
| Mar 08 1961: | Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor, died in London, England, at the age of 81. |
| May 17 1961: | Enya, singer-songwriter, born in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. |
| Jun 23 1961: | Death of Nikolai Malko, conductor, in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 78. |
| Aug 14 1961: | Karl Böhm, conductor, died in Salzburg, Austria, at the age of 86. |
| Sep 05 1961: | Marc-André Hamelin, pianist, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
| Oct 24 1961: | World première performance of Godfrey Ridout's Fall Fair Overture, by the CBC Symphony Orchestra at the UN General Assembly in New York. |
| Nov 02 1961: | k.d. lang, singer and song-writer, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. |
| Nov 06 1961: | Daniele Gatti, conductor, born in Milan, Italy. |
| Nov 13 1961: | Tracy Dahl, coloratura soprano, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
| Nov 26 1961: | Nicola Luisotti, conductor and musician, born in Viareggio, Tuscany, northcentral Italy. |
| Jan 29 1962: | Fritz Kreisler, violinist, died in New York, USA, at the age of 86. |
| Feb 27 1962: | Marcelo Álvarez, tenor and opera performer, born in Córdoba, Argentina. |
| Jun 12 1962: | John Ireland, composer, died in the village of Rock, Sussex, England, at the age of 82. |
| Jun 13 1052: | Death of Eugene Goossens, composer and conductor, in Hillingdon, London, England, at the age of 69. |
| Oct 16 1962: | Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone, born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. |
| Mar 02 1963: | Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano and opera performer, born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. |
| Jun 07 1963: | Roberto Alagna, tenor and opera performer, born in Clichy-sous-Bois, an eastern suburb of Paris, France. |
| Jun 13 1963: | Sarah Connolly, soprano and opera performer, born in County Durham, England. |
| Oct 11 1963: | Edith Piaf, singer, died in Placassier, France, at the age of 47. |
| Apr 10 1964: | Last public concert performance by pianist Glenn Gould in Los Angeles, California. For the rest of his career, he concentrated on making recordings. |
| Jul 01 1964: | Pierre Monteux, conductor, died in Hancock, Maine, USA, at the age of 89. |
| Sep 04 1964: | René Pape, bass and opera peformer, born in Dresden, Germany. |
| Oct 19 1964: | Release of Simon and Garfunkel's first album Wednesday Morning 3AM. |
| Dec 09 1964: | Birth of William Eddins, conductor and pianist, in Buffalo, New York. |
| Dec 25 1964: | Ian Bostridge, tenor, born in London, England. |
| Jan 23 1965: | Michael Schade, Canadian-based tenor, born in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| Feb 12 1965: | Michele Pertusi, bass, born in Parma, Italy. |
| Apr 16 1965: | Natalie Dessay, soprano and opera performer, born in Lyons, France. |
| Jul 19 1965: | Russell Braun, Canadian-based baritone, born in Frankfurt, Germany. |
| Aug 19 1965: | Johan Botha, tenor and opera performer, born in Rustenburg, South Africa. |
| Aug 30 1965: | Release of Bob Dylan's influential album Highway 61 Revisited. |
| Sep 07 1965: | Angela Gheorghiu, soprano and opera performer, born in Adjud, Romania. |
| Nov 09 1965: | Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone, born in Pantglas, Gwynedd, Wales. |
| Jan 17 1966: | Release of Simon and Garfunkel's second album Sounds of Silence. |
| Apr 08 1966: | Birth of John Estacio, composer, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. |
| May 16 1966: | Release of Bob Dylan's double album Blonde on Blonde. |
| Jun 04 1966: | Cecelia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano and opera performer, born in Rome, Italy. |
| Jun 13 1966: | Alain Trudel, trombone player and conductor, born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
| Oct 10 1966: | Release of Simon and Garfunkel's third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. |
| Oct 03 1967: | Sir Malcolm Sargent, known principally as a conductor, died in London, England, at the age of 72. |
| Nov 10 1967: | Birth of Andreas Scholl, counter tenor and opera performer, in Eltville, Germany. |
| Nov 11 1967: | Release of the Moody Blues' album Days of Future Passed. |
| Dec 27 1967: | Release of Leonard Cohen's first album Songs of Leonard Cohen. |
| Feb 16 1968: | Death of Healey Willan, organist and composer best known for church choral music, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87. |
| Apr 03 1968: | Release of Simon and Garfunkel's fourth album Bookends. |
| Jul 26 1968: | Release of the Moody Blues' album In Search of the Lost Chord. |
| Feb 13 1969: | Joyce DiDonato, soprano and opera performer, born in Prairie Village, Kansas, USA. |
| Apr 11 1969: | Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano and opera performer, born in Berwyn, Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
| Jul 10 1969: | Jonas Kaufmann, tenor and opera performer, born in Munich, Germany. |
| Aug 12 1969: | Tanita Tikaram, singer-songwriter, born in Münster, Germany. |
| Jan 26 1970: | Release of Simon and Garfunkel's fifth and final album Bridge Over Troubled Water. |
| Apr 26 1970: | Soprano and opera performer Eva-Maria Westbroek born in The Netherlands. |
| Jul 11 1970: | Eric Owens, bass-baritone and opera performer, born in Philadelphia, USA. |
| Jul 29 1970: | Sir John Barbirolli, conductor especially associated with the Hallê Orchestra, died in London, England, at the age of 70. |
| Sep 19 1970: | Release of Neil Young's album After the Goldrush. |
| Feb 19 1971: | Gil Shaham, classical violinist, born in Urbana, Illinois, USA. |
| Mar 19 1971: | Release of Jethro Tull's album Aqualung. |
| Mar 31 1971: | Birth of Diana Damrau, soprano and opera performer, in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany. |
| Apr 06 1971: | Igor Stravinsky, composer, died in New York, USA, at the age of 88. |
| Sep 18 1971: | Anna Netrebko, soprano and opera performer, born in Krasnodar, Russia. |
| Oct 25 1971: | Midori Goto, violinist, born in Osaka, Japan. |
| Feb 01 1972: | Release of Neil Young's album Harvest. |
| Feb 17 1972: | Luciano Pavarotti's performance as Tonio in Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment (Daughter of the Regiment) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York is credited with propelling him to stardom. |
| Feb 22 1972: | Rolando Villazon, tenor, born in Mexico City. |
| Mar 11 1972: | Release of Harry Chapin's album Heads and Tales. |
| Apr 04 1972: | Vladimir Jurowski, conductor, born in Moscow, Russia. |
| Jun 06 1972: | Release of David Bowie's album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from mars. |
| Jun 18 1972: | Anu Tali, conductor, born in Estonia. |
| Oct 20 1972: | Stephan Moccio, pianist and recording artist, born in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada. |
| Nov 04 1972: | Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone and opera performer, born in Kraków, Poland. |
| Jan 13 1973: | Juan Diego Flórez, opera performer and tenor, born in Lima, Peru. |
| Jul 06 1973: | Otto Klemperer, conductor, died in Zürich, Switzerland, at the age of 88. |
| Oct 22 1973: | Pablo Casals, cellist, died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 96. |
| Nov 01 1973: | Release of Roxy Music's album Stranded. |
| Nov 11 1973: | Marius Brenciu, tenor and opera performer, born in Brasov, Romania. |
| Dec 07 1973: | Release of the album Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings. |
| Jan 17 1974: | Release of Bob Dylan's album Planet Waves. |
| Oct 24 1974: | David Oistrakh, violinist, died in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at the age of 66. |
| Nov 15 1974: | Release of Roxy Music's album Country Life. |
| Jan 17 1975: | Release of Bob Dylan's album Blood on the Tracks. |
| Mar 27 1975: | Sir Arthur Bliss, composer, died in London, England, at the age of 83. |
| May 27 1975: | Release of the album Venus and Mars by Paul McCartney and Wings. |
| Oct 24 1975: | Release of Roxy Music's album Siren. |
| Jan 05 1976: | Release of Bob Dylan's album Desire. |
| Jan 27 1976: | James Ehnes, violinist, born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. |
| Jan 30 1976: | Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone and opera performer, born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
| Aug 06 1976: | Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist, died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 73. |
| Oct 21 1976: | Josh Ritter, singer-songwriter, born in Moscow, Idaho, USA. |
| Dec 04 1976: | Benjamin Britten, composer, died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK, at the age of 63. |
| Feb 19 1977: | Vittorio Grigolo, tenor and opera performer, born in Arezzo, Italy. |
| Jun 28 1977: | Measha Brueggergosman, soprano, born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. |
| Sep 13 1977: | Leopold Stokowski, conductor, died in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England, at the age of 95. |
| Jan 22 1978: | Joseph Calleja, tenor and opera performer, born in Attard, Malta. |
| Apr 21 1978: | Death of folk singer and songwriter Sandy Denny in Wimbledon, London, England, at the age of 31. |
| Sep 01 1978: | Release of Bryan Ferry's album The Bride Stripped Bare. |
| Nov 18 1978: | Andris Nelsons, conductor, born in Riga, Latvia. |
| Apr 11 1979: | Danielle De Niese, soprano and opera performer, born Melbourne, Australia. |
| Sep 16 1979: | Iestyn Davies, countertenor and opera performer, born in the UK. |
| Jan 29 1980: | Birth of Peter Meechan, composer, in Nuneaton, England. |
| Aug 20 1980: | Release of Al Stewart's album 24 Carrots. |
| Oct 17 1980: | Release of Dire Straits' album Making Movies. |
| Jan 23 1981: | Samuel Barber, composer, died in New York, USA, at the age of 70. |
| Jul 16 1981: | Death of Harry Chapin, singer-songwriter, in Jericho, Long Island, New York, USA, at the age of 28. |
| Oct 21 1981: | Release of Al Stewart's album Indian Summer. |
| Mar 29 1982: | Carl Orff, composer, died in Munich, Germany, at the age of 86. |
| May 08 1982: | Anthony Roth Costanzo, counter-tenor, born in USA. |
| Sep 16 1982: | Release of Dire Straits' album Love Over Gold. |
| Oct 04 1982: | Glenn Gould, pianist, died in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 50. |
| Dec 20 1982: | Arthur Rubinstein, pianist, died in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 95. |
| Feb 22 1983: | Sir Adrian Boult, conductor, died in Farnham, England, at the age of 93. |
| Feb 23 1983: | Death of Herbert Howells, composer, in Putney, London, England, at the age of 90. |
| Mar 08 1983: | William Walton, composer, died in Ischia, Italy, at the age of 80. |
| Jun 02 1983: | Stan Rogers, folk singer-songwriter, died in an airplane fire at Cincinnati airport, Hebron, Kentucky, USA, at the age of 33. |
| Mar 05 1984: | Tito Gobbi, baritone and opera performer, died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 70. |
| Mar 20 1984: | Birth of Shenyang, bass-baritone and opera performer, in Tiajin, China. |
| Nov 16 1984: | Release of Tina Turner's album Private Dancer. |
| Nov 24 1984: | Death of Godfrey Ridout, music teacher and composer, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 66. |
| Mar 12 1985: | Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, died in Philadelphia, USA, at the age of 85. |
| May 13 1985: | Release of Dire Straits' album Brothers in Arms. |
| Jun 03 1985: | Release of Bryan Ferry's album Boys and Girls. |
| May 10 1986: | World première performance of Old and Lost Rivers, composed by Tobias Picker, by the Houston Symphony Orchestra, which commissioned the work. |
| Jun 16 1986: | Death of Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist, in Louveciennes, near Paris, northern France. |
| Aug 12 1986: | Release of Paul Simon's album Graceland. |
| Oct 31 1986: | World première performance of George Lloyd's Symphony No. 11, performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, which commissioned the work, in Troy, New York, conducted by the composer. |
| Nov 06 1986: | World première performance of Luciano Berio's arrangement of Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor. The performance took place in Los Angeles. |
| Mar 13 1987: | Gerald Moore, pianist and accompanist, died in England, at the age of 87. |
| Jun 03 1987: | Andrés Segovia, classical guitarist, died in Madrid, Spain, at the age of 94. |
| Oct 22 1987: | World première performance of John Adams's opera Nixon in China, at the Houston Grand Opera, Texas, USA, the company that commissioned the work. |
| Nov 02 1987: | Release of Bryan Ferry's album Bête Noir. |
| Dec 10 1987: | Jascha Heifetz, violinist, died in Los Angeles, California, USA, at the age of 86. |
| May 05 1988: | Adele Adkins, singer-songwriter, born in Tottenham, London, England. |
| Sep 13 1988: | Birth of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii in Japan. |
| Sep 19 1988: | Release of Enya's album Watermark. |
| Nov 13 1988: | Antal Doráti, conductor, died in Gerzensee, Switzerland, at the age of 82. |
| Jul 16 1989: | Herbert von Karajan, conductor best known for his association with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, died in Salzburg, Austria, at the age of 81. |
| Nov 05 1989: | Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, died in New York, at the age of 76. |
| Jul 07 1990: | First Three Tenors concert, with Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Zubin Mehta, held at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy. |
| Aug 19 1990: | Composer and pianist Leonard Bernstein conducted his last concert, held at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony. Already ill, he died only two months later. |
| Oct 14 1990: | Composer and pianist Leonard Bernstein died in Manhattan, New York, USA, at the age of 72. |
| Oct 16 1990: | Release of Paul Simon's album The Rhythm of the Saints. |
| Dec 02 1990: | Aaron Copland, composer, died in North Tarrytown, New York, USA, at the age of 90. |
| May 08 1991: | Rudolf Serkin, pianist, died Guilford, Vermont, USA, at the age of 88. |
| Jun 09 1991: | Claudio Arrau, pianist, died in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, at the age of 88. |
| Sep 10 1991: | Release of Dire Straits' album On Every Street. |
| Nov 04 1991: | Release of Enya's album Shepherd Moons. |
| Feb 06 1992: | World première performance of Funeral Music for Queen Mary (after Henry Purcell) transcribed by composer Steven Stucky and played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Los Angeles, California, USA. |
| Apr 13 1995: | World première performance of The Five Sacred Trees, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, composed by John Williams, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The soloist was Judith LeClair, for whom the piece was written. |
| Dec 25 1995: | Nicolas Slonimsky, musician and conductor best known for the Lexicon of Musical Invective, died in Los Angeles, California, USA, at the age of 101. |
| Feb 20 1996: | Toru Takemitsu, composer, died in Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 65. |
| Sep 24 1996: | Release of Jesse Cook's album Gravity. |
| Aug 01 1997: | Sviatoslav Richter, pianist, died at his home near Moscow, Russia, at the age of 82. |
| Sep 05 1997: | Georg Solti, conductor, died in Antibes, France, at the age of 84. |
| Nov 26 1997: | World première performance of John Corigliano's Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, with Joshua Bell as the solist and Robert Spano conducting, in San Franciso, California. |
| Dec 01 1997: | Stéphane Grappelli, jazz violinist, died in Paris, France, at the age of 89. |
| Dec 11 1997: | Simon Jeffes, musician and founder of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, died in England, at the age of 48. |
| Jan 08 1998: | Sir Michael Tippett, composer, died in London, England, at the age of 93. |
| Jul 03 1998: | George Lloyd, composer, died in London, England, at the end of 85. |
| Mar 12 1999: | Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, died in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 82. |
| Jul 06 1999: | Joaquín Rodrigo, composer and pianist, died in Madrid, Spain, at the age of 97. |
| Jun 21 2000: | Alan Hovhaness, composer, died in Seattle, USA, at the age of 89. |
| Sep 26 2000: | Release of Mark Knopfler's album Sailing to Philadelphia. |
| Sep 30 2000: | First performace of Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Concerto, with cello as the solo instrument, at the Barbican Centre Festival in London, England. |
| Nov 21 2000: | Release of Enya's album A Day Without Rain. |
| Oct 09 2001: | Release of Leonard Cohen's album Ten New Songs. |
| Oct 19 2001: | First performace of Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Concerto for Erhu and Orchestra, by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, with Karen Hwa-Chee Han as the soloist, and Tan Dun conducting, at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, Irvine, California. |
| Mar 22 2002: | World première performance of Malcolm Forsyth's orchestra work Requiem for the victims in a wartorn world, by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, for whom the work was written. |
| Sep 21 2002: | World première performance of Roberto Sierra's guitar concerto Folias, with Manuel Barrueco, for whom the work was written, as the soloist. |
| Jul 27 2004: | Release of k.d. lang's album Hymns of the 49th Parallel. |
| Nov 02 2004: | Release of Jack Semple's blues guitar album Qu'Appelle. |
| Dec 21 2004: | Release of Jesse Cook's live album Montréal. |
| Jan 15 2005: | Victoria de los Ángeles, soprano and opera performer, died in Barcelona, Spain, at the age of 81. |
| Oct 01 2005: | World première performance of John Adams' opera Doctor Atomic, at the San Francisco Opera, conducted by Donald Runnicles. |
| Nov 22 2005: | Release of Enya's album Amarantine. |
| Mar 18 2006: | Dan Gibson, sound recordist, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84. |
| Aug 03 2006: | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano and opera performer, died in the village of Schruns, Austria, at the age of 90. |
| Sep 29 2006: | World première performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Orchestral Tribute in Moscow, Russia. |
| Dec 21 2006: | World première performance of Tan Dun's opera The First Emperor from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
| Dec 30 2006: | First HD live performance broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The broadcast was of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). This initiative has been credited with bringing a new audience to opera. |
| Apr 03 2007: | Release of Jesse Cook's album Frontiers. |
| Apr 27 2007: | Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, died in Moscow, Russia, at the age of 80. |
| Jun 13 2007: | Oskar Morawetz, composer, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 90. |
| Jul 02 2007: | Beverly Sills, soprano and opera singer, died in Manhattan, USA, at the age of 78. |
| Aug 15 2007: | Richard Bradshaw, conductor and opera director, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63. |
| Sep 06 2007: | Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, died in Modena, Italy, at the age of 71. |
| Sep 17 2007: | Release of Mark Knopfler's album Kill To Get Crimson. |
| Dec 23 2007: | Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, died in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 82. |
| Jan 28 2008: | Release of Adele's album 19. |
| Feb 05 2008: | Release of k.d. lang's album Watershed. |
| Feb 09 2008: | Release of pianist Stephan Moccio's album Exposure. |
| Sep 27 2008: | World première performance of Howard Shore's Fanfare for Organ, Brass and Percussion, at Macy's Department Store, Philadelphia. |
| Nov 23 2008: | Richard Hickox, conductor, died in Swansea, Wales, at the age of 60. |
| Jan 09 2009: | World première performance of Arvo Pärt's Symphony No 4 Los Angeles in Los Angeles, USA, by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, who had commissioned the work, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. |
| Jan 31 2009: | World première performance of the band version of Apophenia composed by Peter Meechan in Manchester, England. |
| Apr 28 2009: | Release of Bob Dylan's album Together Through Life. |
| Dec 24 2009: | Tim Hart, folk singer, musician, and founding member of the folk-rock group Steeleye Span, died in La Gomera, Canary Islands, at the age of 61. |
| Jan 18 2010: | Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 63. |
| Jan 23 2010: | Pianist Earl Wild died in Palm Springs, California, USA, at the age of 94. |
| Feb 09 2010: | Death of Jacques Hétu, composer, in Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 71. |
| Mar 06 2010: | Philip Langridge, tenor and opera performer, died in England at the age of 70. |
| Apr 17 2010: | Release of Josh Ritter's album So Runs the World Away. |
| Jun 08 2010: | Release of Renee Fleming's cross-over album Dark Hope. |
| Jun 16 2010: | Maureen Forrester, contralto, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79. |
| Oct 10 2010: | Joan Sutherland, mezzo-soprano and opera performer, died in Switzerland, at the age of 83. |
| Nov 02 2010: | Release of pianist Stephan Moccio's album Color. |
| Nov 12 2010: | World première performance of the completed work of Borealis by John Estacio, played by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. |
| Nov 12 2010: | Henryk Górecki, composer, died in Katowice, Poland, at the age of 76. |
| Jan 24 2011: | Release of Adele's album 21. |
| Apr 08 2011: | Release of Paul Simon's album So Beautiful or So What. |
| Jul 05 2011: | Malcolm Forsyth, composer, died in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 74. |
| Jul 27 2011: | World première performance of Robert Rival's orchestral work entitled Scherzo by the National Academy Orchestra in Hamilton, Ontario, as part of the Brott Music Festival. |
| Sep 26 2011: | New York's Metropolitan Opera's season opened with Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena, the first time the company had presented this opera. |
| Nov 11 2011: | World première performance of the orchestral version of Apophenia, composed by Peter Meechan. The performance was given in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Eddins, with Jens Lindemann as the trumpet soloist and the composer in attendance. |
This is a purely idiosyncratic list. It includes information, factoids really, about composers and musicians,
especially those whose work I have particularly enjoyed through the years.
See also the concert diary.
This presentation has been compiled and is © 1998-2011
by
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Last updated July 30, 2011
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