History of Music II Timeline

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    Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    Premiere Date
  • Schubert: Erlkönig

    Composition Date
  • Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Premiere Date
  • Nicolo Paganini: 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    Complete first publication
  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

    Compositon Date
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    Frederic Chopin: Mazurkas Op.7

    Composition Date Range
  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Das Jahr

    Composition Date
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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

    Original piano version
  • Bizet: Carmen

    Premiere Date
  • Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

    Premiere of the complete cycle
  • Brahms: Symphony No.4

    Premiere Date
  • Mahler: Symphony No.1

    Premiere
  • Claude Debussy “Voiles”

    Préludes Book 1
  • Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (premiere)

  • Manuel de Falla: Homenaje (Homage)

  • George and Ira Gershwin: “I Got Rhythm”

  • Margaret Bonds: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

  • Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (premiere)

  • Duke Ellington: Cottontail

  • Period: to

    Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine