This Day in Music

Chronology of Events 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.
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.
Feb/17/1653:	Arcangelo Corelli, composer, born in Fusignano, northern Italy.
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.
Nov/10/1688:	François Couperin, composer, born in Paris.
May/02/1692:	First 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 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.
Mar/31/1732:	Joseph Haydn, composer, born in Rohrau, Austria.
Dec/07/1732:	Inaugural performance at the Royal Opera House, aka Covent Garden, in London, England.
Sep/11/1733:	François Couperin, composer, died in Paris, at the age of 64.
Feb/19/1736:	First performance of Handel's Harp Concerto in B-flat major, Opus 4, No. 6, 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:	First 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:	First 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:	First performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 31 in D major, in Paris, France, hence its nickname, Paris Symphony.
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:	First performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K466, in Vienna.
May/01/1786:	First performance of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, at the Burgtheater, Vienna, directed by the composer.
Dec/04/1786:	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed the score of his Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, in Vienna, Austria.
Oct/29/1787:	First performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, at 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.
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:	First performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 92 in G major, the Oxford Symphony, in London, England.
Sep/30/1791:	First 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:	First performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K550, in Vienna.
Aug/19/1791:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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:	First performance of Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 (Opus 72a) in Vienna, Austria.
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.
Oct/22/1811:	Franz Liszt, composer and pianist, born in Doborján, a village now part of Hungary.
Nov/28/1811:	First 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:	First performance of Rossini's opera Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) at the Teatro Argentina, in Rome, Italy.
Jan/25/1817:	First performance of Gioachino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola at Teatro Valle, in Rome, 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.
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:	First 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.
Mar/26/1827:	Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, died in Germany, at the age of 56.
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.
Mar/06/1831:	First performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera 'La Sonnambula', at the Teatro Carcano, Milan, Italy.
May/12/1832:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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.
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:	First performance of Roméo et Juliette by Hector Berlioz at the Paris Conservatoire, with the composer conducting.
Feb/11/1840:	First 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.
Jun/29/1941:	Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, died in New York, USA, at the age of 80.
Sep/08/1841:	Antonin Dvorák, composer, born in Nelahozeves, near Prague, Czech Republic.
Mar/03/1842:	First 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.
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.
May/12/1845:	Gabriel Fauré, composer, born in Pamiers, a village in southwest France.
Dec/04/1845:	First performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor (Opus 54) in Dresden, Germany.
Dec/06/1846:	First performance of Hector Berlioz's dramatic work La Damnation de Faust at the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Mar/14/1847:	First 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:	First performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy.
Mar/06/1853:	First 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.
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:	First 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.
Dec/22/1858:	Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
Mar/19/1859:	First 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.
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:	First 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/25/1867:	Arturo Toscanini, conductor, born in Parma, in northern Italy.
Apr/27/1867:	First 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.
Jun/21/1868:	First 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.
Sep/06/1869:	Walford Davies, composer, born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.
Apr/30/1870:	Franz Lehár, composer best known for his light operas, born in Komárno, now in Slovakia.
Dec/24/1871:	First performance of Verdi's opera Aida, at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Egypt.
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:	First performance of Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Opus 56a, in Vienna, Austria.
May/22/1874:	First performance of Guiseppe Verdi's Requiem Mass, in the cathedral of Milan, Italy.
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:	First 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:	First 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.
Nov/23/1876:	Manuel de Falla, composer, born in Cádiz, Spain.
Dec/29/1876:	Pablo Casals, cellist, born in El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain.
Dec/30/1877:	First performance of Brahm's Symphony No. 2, conducted by Hans Richter, in Vienna, Austria.
Nov/17/1877:	First performance of The Sorcerer, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Opera Comique, London, England.
May/25/1878:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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.
Oct/05/1880:	Death of Jacques (Jacob) Offenbach, composer especially known for operettas, in Paris, France, at the age of 61.
Jan/04/1881:	First 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:	First performance of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Feb/22/1881:	First 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:	First performance of the revised version of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra at La Scala, Milan, Italy.
Apr/23/1881:	First 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:	First performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, in Moscow.
Nov/25/1882:	First 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.
Nov/08/1883:	Sir Arnold Bax, composer, born in Streatham, London, England.
Jan/05/1884:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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.
Oct/03/1888:	First performance of The Yeomen of the Guard, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England.
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:	First performance of The Gondoliers, an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, London, England.
Feb/02/1890:	First 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.
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.
Feb/01/1893:	First performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut in the Teatro Regio in Turin, northwest Italy.
Feb/09/1893:	First 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.
Oct/07/1893:	First 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:	First 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:	First performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel, in Weimar, Germany.
Mar/16/1894:	First 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:	First 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/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.
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:	First performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème in the Teatro Regio in Turin, northwest Italy. The performance was conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
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:	First performance of Caractacus, a choral work composed by Edward Elgar. The work was commissioned for the Leeds Festival.
Jun/19/1899:	First 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:	First 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.
Jul/14/1901:	Birth of Gerald Finzi, composer, in London, England.
Oct/27/1901:	First 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 soloisr.
Nov/22/1901:	Joaquín Rodrigo, composer and pianist, born in Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.
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.
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.
May/01/1904:	Antonin Dvorák, composer, died in Prague, Czech Republic, at the age of 52.
Jan/02/1905:	Sir Michael Tippett, composer, born in London, England.
Dec/09/1905:	First performance of Richard Strauss' opera Salome, at the Hofoper in Dresden, Germany.
Apr/09/1906:	Antal Doráti, conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary.
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.
Apr/05/1908:	Herbert von Karajan, conductor best known for his association with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, born in Salzburg, Austria.
Mar/05/1908:	First performance of Ravel's Rhapsodie espagnole, at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris.
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:	First 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:	First performance of Vaughan Williams' orchestral piece In the Fen Country, at the Queen's Hall, London, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
Mar/10/1910:	Samuel Barber, composer, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.
Nov/10/1910:	First 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.
Jan/11/1911:	First 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:	First 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.
Apr/22/1912:	Kathleen Ferrier, contralto, born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
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:	First performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, in Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteuux.
Oct/02/1913:	First 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/20/1915:	Sviatoslav Richter, pianist, born in Zhytomyr, now part of Ukraine.
Oct/28/1915:	First 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/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.
Jan/17/1917:	Oskar Morawetz, composer, born in Svetlá nad Sázavou, a town in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic.
Mar/27/1917:	First 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.
Sep/29/1918:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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.
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.
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:	First performance of the revised version of Vaughan Williams' song-cycle On Wenlock Edge.
Feb/12/1924:	First 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.
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:	First 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:	First performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
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:	First 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:	First 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.
Oct/05/1929:	Simon Streatfeild, conductor, born in Windsor, England.
Jul/25/1930:	Maureen Forrester, soprano, 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.
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:	First 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:	First 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:	First 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.
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:	First 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.
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.
Jun/08/1937:	First 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.
Dec/28/1937:	Maurice Ravel, composer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 63.
Feb/16/1938:	Composer John Corigliano born in New York City, USA.
Jul/21/1938:	Anton Kuerti, pianist, born in Vienna, Austria.
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:	First 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.
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.
Nov/09/1940:	First 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/24/1941:	John Williams, classical guitarist, born in Melbourne, Australia.
May/24/1941:	Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
Jun/01/1941:	Edo de Waart, conductor, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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:	First 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.
Oct/16/1942:	First performance of the ballet Rodeo, with music composed by Aaron Copland, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Nov/15/1942:	Birth of Daniel Baremboim, conductor and pianist, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mar/12/1943:	First 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 violinist, 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.
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.
Sep/14/1944:	Martyn Hill, tenor, born in Kent, England.
Dec/04/1944:	Singer-songwriter Anna McGarrigle born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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:	First 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/15/1945:	Jessye Norman, soprano, born in Augusta, Georgia, USA.
Sep/26/1945:	Bryan Ferry, singer and songwriter, born in Washington, England.
Nov/12/1945:	Neil Young, singer-songwriter, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nov/25/1945:	First 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/26/1947:	Michel Sardou, singer, born in Paris, France.
Feb/15/1947:	First performance of Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35, with Jascha Heifetz as the soloist with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Apr/19/1947:	Murray Perahia, pianist and conductor, born in New York, USA.
Dec/14/1947:	Christopher Parkening, classical guitarist, born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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:	First 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.
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/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.
Dec/01/1950:	Ernest John Moeran, composer, died in Kenmare, County Kerry, at the age of 55.
Mar/01/1951:	Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass baritone and opera performer, born in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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.
Jan/14/1953:	First 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:	First 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.
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.
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/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.
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.
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:	First 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Oct/19/1964:	Release date 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.
Sep/07/1965:	Angela Gheorghiu, soprano and opera performer, born in Adjud, Romania.
Nov/09/1965:	Bryn Terfel, baritone, born in Pantglas, Wales.
Jan/17/1966:	Release date of Simon and Garfunkel's album Sounds of Silence.
Apr/08/1966:	Birth of John Estacio, composer, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.
May/16/1966:	Release date 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 date of Simon and Garfunkel's album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
Oct/03/1967:	Malcolm Sargent, known principally as a conductor, died in London, England, at the age of 72.
Nov/11/1967:	Release date of the Moody Blues' album Days of Future Passed.
Jul/26/1968:	Release date of the Moody Blues' album In Search of the Lost Chord.
Apr/11/1969:	Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano and opera performer, born in Berwyn, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Aug/12/1969:	Tanita Tikaram, singer-songwriter, born in Münster, Germany.
Jan/26/1970:	Release date of Simon and Garfunkel's album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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 date of Neil Young's album After the Goldrush.
Feb/19/1971:	Gil Shaham, classical violinist, born in Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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 date 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.
Apr/04/1972:	Vladimir Jurowski, conductor, born in Moscow, Russia.
Jan/13/1973:	Juan Diego Flórez, opera performer and tenor, born in Lima, Peru.
Jul/06/1973:	Otto Klemperer, conductor, born 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 date for Roxy Music's album Stranded.
Nov/11/1973:	Marius Brenciu, tenor and opera performer, born in Brasov, Romania.
Dec/07/1973:	Release date for the album Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings.
Jan/17/1974:	Release date 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 date of Roxy Music's album Country Life.
Jan/17/1975:	Release date 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 date for the album Venus and Mars by Paul McCartney and Wings.
Oct/24/1975:	Release date of Roxy Music's album Siren.
Jan/05/1976:	Release date 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.
Dec/04/1976:	Benjamin Britten, composer, died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK, at the age of 63.
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.
Nov/18/1978:	Andris Nelsons, conductor, born in Riga, Latvia.
Oct/17/1980:	Release date of Dire Straits' album Making Movies.
Jan/23/1981:	Samuel Barber, composer, died in New York, USA, at the age of 70.
Mar/29/1982:	Carl Orff, composer, died in Munich, Germany, at the age of 86.
Sep/16/1982:	Release date for 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.
Nov/16/1984:	Release date 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.
May/10/1986:	First performance of Old and Lost Rivers, composed by Tobias Picker, by the Houston Symphony Orchestra, which commissioned the work.
Aug/12/1986:	Release date for Paul Simon's album Graceland.
Nov/06/1986:	First 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.
Dec/10/1987:	Jascha Heifetz, violinist, died in Los Angeles, California, USA, at the age of 86.
Sep/19/1988:	Release date 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.
Oct/28/1990:	Release date for 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 date of Dire Straits' album On Every Street.
Nov/04/1991:	Release date of Enya's album Shepherd Moons.
Apr/13/1995:	First 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 date 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:	First 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.
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 date 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 date of Enya's album A Day Without Rain.
Oct/09/2001:	Release date 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.
Jul/27/2004:	Release date of k.d. lang's album Hymns of the 49th Parallel.
Nov/02/2004:	Release date of Jack Semple's blues guitar album Qu'Appelle.
Dec/21/2004:	Release date 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:	First performance of John Adams' opera Doctor Atomic, at the San Francisco Opera, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
Nov/22/2005:	Release date 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:	First performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Orchestral Tribute in Moscow, Russia.
Dec/21/2006:	First performance of Tan Dun’s opera The First Emperor from the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Apr/03/2007:	Release date 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 date for 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.
Feb/05/2008:	Release date of k.d. lang's album Watershed.
Sep/27/2008:	First 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.
Apr/28/2009:	Release date of Bob Dylan's album Together Through Life.
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.
Mar/06/2010:	Philip Langridge, tenor and opera performer, died in England at the age of 70.

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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.