Symphony - Notable Historical Events
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Symphony - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1783-11-04 |
W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria. |
1792-02-23 |
Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres |
1794-02-10 |
Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres |
1794-03-03 |
1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D |
1795-02-02 |
Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres |
1800-04-02 |
1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C |
1803-04-05 |
1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D |
1807-03-05 |
1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B |
1813-12-08 |
Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres |
1814-02-27 |
Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres |
1824-05-07 |
Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna |
1830-12-25 |
Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic" premieres |
1841-03-31 |
1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B |
1841-12-06 |
Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D premieres |
1842-03-03 |
1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony |
1846-11-05 |
Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C premieres |
1851-02-06 |
Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf |
1854-02-16 |
Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres |
1858-11-09 |
1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra |
1865-12-17 |
Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" premieres |
1868-05-09 |
Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres |
1876-11-04 |
John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C premieres |
1877-10-20 |
Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
1877-12-16 |
Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres |
1877-12-30 |
Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna |
1878-02-10 |
Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres |
1881-09-03 |
Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony |
1881-10-22 |
Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert |
1883-12-02 |
John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres |
1884-12-30 |
Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig |
1885-10-25 |
John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E premieres |
1886-02-23 |
Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres |
1886-05-19 |
Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C premieres |
1888-11-17 |
Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg |
1889-02-12 |
Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres |
1889-11-20 |
Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony |
1892-12-18 |
Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony premieres |
1893-10-28 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique" |
1893-12-16 |
Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres |
1894-04-09 |
1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz |
1895-03-04 |
Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin |
1895-04-14 |
1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony |
1895-12-13 |
1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony |
1897-03-09 |
Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin) |
1901-03-14 |
1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A |
1901-11-28 |
Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G premieres |
1902-01-25 |
Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg |
1902-03-08 |
1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony |
1904-01-31 |
Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres |
1904-02-28 |
Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
1904-10-18 |
Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne |
1906-05-27 |
1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen |
1907-09-25 |
Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony premieres |
1908-09-19 |
Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague |
1908-12-03 |
Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A premieres |
1910-09-12 |
Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians |
1911-12-29 |
SF Symphony formed |
1912-06-26 |
Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna |
1915-12-08 |
Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres |
1916-02-11 |
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert |
1917-05-03 |
1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" |
1922-01-26 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London |
1923-02-19 |
Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres |
1923-05-30 |
Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres |
1924-12-14 |
Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris |
1926-04-03 |
1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C |
1926-05-12 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad |
1927-04-22 |
1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E |
1927-05-05 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin |
1927-12-04 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1928-11-02 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila |
1930-10-22 |
1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult |
1930-11-28 |
Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres |
1932-01-10 |
"Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated |
1935-04-10 |
Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London |
1936-04-26 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony |
1937-10-21 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres |
1937-11-13 |
NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio |
1937-11-21 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad |
1937-12-25 |
Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio |
1938-03-26 |
NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony |
1939-02-24 |
Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston |
1939-12-03 |
Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony premieres |
1941-02-22 |
Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres |
1941-03-29 |
1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Requiem Symphony" |
1941-05-16 |
1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" |
1941-07-19 |
BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Beethoven's 5th symphony) |
1941-11-17 |
Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
1941-12-21 |
David Diamond's 1st Symphony premieres |
1941-12-27 |
Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony |
1942-03-05 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia |
1942-06-29 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony premieres |
1942-07-19 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony premieres in USA |
1942-08-09 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad |
1943-11-03 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1943-12-03 |
Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres |
1944-03-03 |
1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony |
1944-03-05 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony |
1944-04-02 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in NY |
1945-01-13 |
Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1945-08-30 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony |
1945-11-20 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres |
1946-04-05 |
1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony |
1946-08-17 |
Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique" premieres |
1946-10-18 |
Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres |
1946-12-20 |
Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
1947-01-09 |
Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF |
1947-01-21 |
Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel |
1947-02-16 |
Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
1947-10-30 |
Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris |
1948-01-09 |
Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston |
1949-07-09 |
Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony premieres |
1950-10-27 |
Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan" premieres |
1950-10-30 |
David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
1950-11-23 |
Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony" premieres |
1952-01-30 |
Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres |
1953-10-25 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony |
1953-11-06 |
Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb" premieres |
1953-12-17 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 10th Symphony premieres in Leningrad |
1955-01-14 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila |
1955-11-25 |
Walter Piston's 6th Symphony premieres |
1957-03-08 |
1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston |
1957-03-30 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony |
1957-04-04 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris |
1957-10-30 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1957-12-26 |
Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London |
1959-01-30 |
Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres |
1960-01-02 |
Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres |
1960-03-29 |
Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres |
1960-09-02 |
William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
1961-02-10 |
Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres |
1961-10-01 |
Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch's 12nd Symphony |
1961-12-30 |
Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) |
1962-01-17 |
Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF |
1962-01-26 |
David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia |
1962-02-16 |
Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres |
1962-07-20 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony |
1962-12-18 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1964-02-07 |
Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres |
1965-03-05 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony |
1965-04-26 |
Ives' 4th Symphony premieres |
1965-10-06 |
Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony" |
1966-06-25 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
1968-02-29 |
Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres |
1968-05-02 |
1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony |
1969-03-02 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony |
1969-06-21 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
1972-01-08 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
1972-06-01 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin |
1982-10-17 |
1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony) |
1994-12-01 |
Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London |
1997-11-24 |
"Street Corner Symphony" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 79 perfs |
1998-02-01 |
"Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf |
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Symphony - Notable Birthdays
Symphony - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1770-12-16 |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn, Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy), (d. 1827) |
1797-01-31 |
Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony) |
1811-10-22 |
Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), (d. 1886) |
1841-09-08 |
Antonín Dvořák, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony). Dies 1904 |
1868-08-07 |
Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony) |
1869-11-22 |
André Gide, Pastoral Symphony |
1869-9-29 |
Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Symphony of Life |
1876-01-01 |
George Graves, The Robber Symphony |
1880-09-09 |
Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony) |
1882-04-18 |
Leopold Stokowski, London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony) |
1882-07-10 |
Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony |
1885-05-19 |
Henri Valbel, The Robber Symphony |
1886-05-23 |
Magda Sonja, The Robber Symphony |
1887-09-16 |
Nadia Boulanger, conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony) |
1887-12-28 |
Walter Ruttmann, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1888-12-19 |
Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch) |
1890-03-20 |
Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony) |
1890-07-12 |
Anton Kuhl, The Robber Symphony |
1890-08-05 |
Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46) |
1893-07-19 |
László Schäffer, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1900-05-01 |
Robert Baberske, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1901-12-14 |
Homero Dornellas, Brazil Symphony |
1903-04-30 |
Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve) |
1903-07-04 |
Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony) |
1904-02-06 |
Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra) |
1906-9-09 |
Mark Pertsovsky, Leningrad Symphony |
1907-08-18 |
Irwin Dillon, Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 |
1908-04-05 |
George Schick, Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony) |
1912-07-06 |
Zakhar Agranenko, Leningrad Symphony |
1916-02-27 |
Gladys Forrester, Symphony of Movement: Moods and Variations |
1918-03-17 |
Jane Hobson, Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 |
1919-06-12 |
Beryl Laverick, Unfinished Symphony |
1921-05-19 |
Rosine Luguet, Pastoral Symphony |
1922-08-15 |
Lukas Foss, Chichester Psalms/Symphony #1 'Jeremiah'/Symphony #2 'The Age of Anxiety' |
1927-08-11 |
Raymond Leppard, London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch) |
1928-03-24 |
Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch) |
1929-04-06 |
Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist |
1930-03-06 |
Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941) |
1930-07-25 |
Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony) |
1932-03-21 |
Joseph Silverstein, Detroit Mich, violinist (Denver Symphony Orch) |
1934-03-16 |
Roger Norrington, Prom 14: Mahler's Ninth Symphony |
1934-03-27 |
Peter Schamoni, Spring Symphony |
1935-09-01 |
Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) |
1936-07-09 |
David Joel Zinman, NYC, composer/conductor (Balt Symphony-1983) |
1943-01-07 |
Richard Armstrong, Symphony for the Spire |
1943-03-21 |
Hartmut Haenchen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony Nr. 41 'Jupiter' in C major |
1944-01-30 |
Lynn Harrell, Prom 26: French Night with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
1947-06-02 |
Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor |
1948-11-14 |
Prince Charles, Symphony for the Spire |
1958-07-05 |
Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor |
1958-07-19 |
David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor |
1962-9-17 |
Mark Savage, Defenceless: A Blood Symphony |
1965-01-31 |
Ofra Harnoy, Symphony for the Spire |
1966-03-06 |
Will Owsley, An Evening with Amy Grant, Featuring the Nashville Symphony |
1968-03-06 |
Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X) |
1970-10-28 |
Yashoda Wimaladharma, Butterfly Symphony |
1970-12-06 |
Will Lawrence, The June Bug Symphony |
1971-07-19 |
Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X) |
1973-12-04 |
Keith Caputo, Within Temptation & The Metropole Orchestra: Black Symphony |
1974-07-12 |
Sharon den Adel, Within Temptation & The Metropole Orchestra: Black Symphony |
1975-01-02 |
Robert Westerholt, Within Temptation & The Metropole Orchestra: Black Symphony |
1975-05-07 |
Fernando Lima, Sarah Brightman: Symphony in Vienna |
1976-11-13 |
Sean Foley, Dog Lover's Symphony |
1979-01-31 |
Ryan Stoddard, New World Symphony |
1985-08-09 |
Ricardo Almeida, Mozmad's Symphony |
1985-10-29 |
Ben Whitehair, The Road to Symphony |
1987-08-07 |
Matthew Cressey, London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music |
1989-02-24 |
Jessica Wickliffe, Franklin: A Symphony of Pain |
1990-04-18 |
Caitlyn Wickliffe, Franklin: A Symphony of Pain |
1990-05-17 |
Amethist Young, Franklin: A Symphony of Pain |
1992-05-12 |
Bethany Fisher, Defenceless: A Blood Symphony |
1998-12-09 |
Athena Symphony Gelfand, Brother/Sister Reunion |
Symphony - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1996-09-23 |
Oscar-nominated actor of "The Buddy Holly Story" Gary Busey (52) weds former stuntwoman from Dallas Tiani Warden (29) at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas |
Symphony - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1869-03-08 |
Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 |
1896-10-11 |
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72 |
1941-01-18 |
Anton Kuhl, The Robber Symphony |
1941-05-25 |
Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Symphony of Life |
1941-07-15 |
Walter Ruttmann, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1949-08-18 |
Reimar Kuntze, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1951-02-19 |
André Gide, Pastoral Symphony |
1956-06-05 |
Henri Valbel, The Robber Symphony |
1960-10-24 |
Zakhar Agranenko, Leningrad Symphony |
1962-02-17 |
Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85 |
1963-11-15 |
Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74 |
1979-04-29 |
Julia Perry, American composer (Soul Symphony), dies at 55 |
1981-04-25 |
Rosine Luguet, Pastoral Symphony |
1984-07-28 |
Jane Hobson, Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 |
1984-07-29 |
Herbert Braggiotti, The Symphony Murder Mystery |
1985-03-07 |
George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76 |
1985-11-04 |
Line Noro, Pastoral Symphony |
1988-08-17 |
Beryl Laverick, Unfinished Symphony |
1990-12-28 |
Homero Dornellas, Brazil Symphony |
1993-02-26 |
Mark Pertsovsky, Leningrad Symphony |
1998-03-27 |
Gladys Forrester, Symphony of Movement: Moods and Variations |
1998-10-30 |
Nikolai Rozhkov, Symphony of Life |
2003-01-13 |
Irwin Dillon, Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 |
2008-02-13 |
Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918) |
2009-02-01 |
Lukas Foss, Chichester Psalms/Symphony #1 'Jeremiah'/Symphony #2 'The Age of Anxiety' |
2010-04-30 |
Will Owsley, An Evening with Amy Grant, Featuring the Nashville Symphony |
2011-06-14 |
Peter Schamoni, Spring Symphony |
