music history ii

By bfarrow3

  • Premiere of Beethoven's 5th

    Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

  • Schubert composed "Erlkönig"

  • Rossini premiered "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"

  • Publication of Paganini's first work, "24 Caprices for Violin, Op. 1"

    began in 1805

  • Berlioz composed "Symphonie fantastique"

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    Chopin composed "Mazurkas, Op. 7"

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel composed "Das Jahr"

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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk composed "Souvenir de Porto Rico"

  • Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

    original piano version

  • Bizet premiered "Carmen"

  • Wagner premiered complete "Der Ring des Nibelungen"

  • Premiere of Brahms 4

    October 25th in Germany

  • Premiere of Mahler 1

    second, more successful premiere in 1893

  • Debussy composed “Voiles” from "Préludes Book 1"

  • Schönberg composed "Pierrot lunaire," op. 21

  • Stravinsky premiered "The Rite of Spring"

  • De Falla composed "Homenaje" for solo guitar

  • Gershwin's composed "I Got Rhythm"

  • Margaret Bonds composed “The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  • Shostakovich premiered "Symphony No. 5"

  • Ellington composed "Cotton Tail"

  • Copland premiered "Appalachian Spring"

  • Cage published "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano"

  • Miles Davis released "Kind of Blue"

    recorded on March 2 and April 22 of that year

  • Crumb composed "Ancient Voices of Children"

  • Adams premiered "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"

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