Music History

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor (premiere date)

    1807-1808
  • Schubert- Erlkönig (composition date)

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia (premiere date)

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1 (complete first publication)

  • Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7 (composition date range)

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (composition date)

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-HenselDas Jahr (composition date)

  • Louis Moreau GottschalkSouvenir de Porto Rico

    1857-1858
  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version)

  • Bizet Carmen (premiere date)

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere of complete cycle)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg- Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky- The Rite of Spring (premiere)

  • Manuel de Falla- Homenaje (Homage)

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of River"

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm"

  • Dimitri Shostakovic- Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Duke Ellington- Cottontail

  • Aaron Copland- Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage- Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

    Composed 1946-48
  • Miles Davis- Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb- Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams- Short Ride in a Fast Machine