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2008 George Tibbits, composer, architect, works include, Otway Ranges Symphony, Battue, dies

1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf

1997 "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 79 performances

1994 Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London

1993 Ken E. Jones, musician ,New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, dies of AIDS at 34

1992 Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1985 George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76

1982 1st live orchestra on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)

1979 Julia A Perry, U.S. composer and conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55

1978 Don Gillis, U.S. composer (Symphony #5 ), dies at 65

1973 Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43

1972 Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin

1972 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow

1969 Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow

1969 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony

1968 Charles Munch, French/U.S. conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, dies at 77

1968 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony

1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres

1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad

1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"

1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres

1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony

1964 Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres

1963 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian/U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dies at 74

1962 Dmitri Shostakovich' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow

1962 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony

1962 Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (New York Philharmonic), dies at 85

1962 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres

1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia

1962 Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF

1961 Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)

1961 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch' 12nd Symphony

1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres

1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres

1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres

1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres

1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres

1957 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London

1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris

1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony

1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston

1955 Walter Piston's 6th Symphony, premieres

1955 Simon Rattle, born in England, orchestra conductor, Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia

1954 Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation

1954 Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

1953 Dmitri Shostakovich' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad

1953 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres

1953 Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony

1953 Riccardo Chailly, born in Milan, Italy, conductor, West Berlin Symphony Orchestra

1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres

1950 Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres

1950 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres

1950 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St. Joan," premieres

1949 Shulamit Ran, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for Symphony, 1990

1949 Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres

1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston

1947 Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris

1947 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres

1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel

1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF

1946 Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres

1946 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres

1946 Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres

1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony

1945 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres

1945 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony

1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1944 Dmitri Shostakovich' 8th Symphony, premieres in New York

1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony

1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony

1943 Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres

1943 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad

1942 Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in US

1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, premieres

1942 Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia

1941 Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony

1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres

1941 Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres

1941 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"

1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"

1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres

1941 Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto'

1939 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres

1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston

1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony

1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio

1937 Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad

1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio

1937 Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres

1936 David Joel Zinman, born in New York City, composer and conductor, Baltimore Symphony 1983

1936 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 4th Symphony

1935 Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra

1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London

1935 Noam Sheriff, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, musician, composer, conductor, most renowned Israeli musician, director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra

1934 Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer

1934 Aldo Ceccato, born in Milan, Italy, conductor, Detroit Symphony Orchestra 1973 - 1977

1933 George Tibbits, born in Boulder, Australia, composer, architect, works include, Otway Ranges Symphony, Battue

1932 Mike Royko, born in Chicago, journalist, Symphony Daily News, author, Boss

1932 Hugh Wood, born in Parbold, England, composer, studied with William Lloyd Webber, Anthony Milner, Iain Hamilton, works include Symphony and Violin Concerto

1932 Joseph Silverstein, born in Detroit, Michigan, violinist, Denver Symphony Orchestra

1932 "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated

1931 Barry Tuckwell, born in Melbourne, Australia, hornist, London Symphony Orchestra 1955 - 1968

1930 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres

1930 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult

1930 Maureen Forrester, born in Montreal, Canada, contralto, Ressurection Symphony

1930 Lorin Maazel, born in Neuilly, France, conductor, NBC Symphony Orchestra 1941

1929 Andre Previn, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor London Symphony, and pianist

1928 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Philadelphia

1928 Byron "Yankees" Janis, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, pianist, NBC Symphony Orchestra

1927 Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow

1927 Ole Olsen, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major, dies at 77 in Oslo, Norway

1927 Raymond Leppard, born in London, England, conductor, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

1927 Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin

1927 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E

1926 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad

1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C

1925 Robert Linn, born in America, composer, educator, University of Southern California, composed music for chorus and chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and wind orchestra

1924 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma," premieres in Paris

1924 Janos Starker, born in Budapest, Hungary, cellist, Chicago Symphony 1953 - 1958

1924 Julian B Coco, Curacao guitarist/bassist, Utrecht Symphony Orchestra

1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres

1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres

1922 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London

1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"

1916 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert

1915 Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres

1914 Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

1913 Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor, Cincinnati Symphony 1958

1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna

1912 Don Gillis, born in Cameron, Missouri, composer, Symphony #5

1911 SF Symphony formed

1911 Enrique Jorda, born in San Sebastian, Spain, conductor, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 1970

1910 Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians

1908 Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres

1908 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague

1908 George Schick, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, Chicago Symphony

1907 Roy Douglas, born in Tunbridge Wells, England, Richard Roy Douglas, composer, pianist, member London Symphony Orchestra, pianist, organist, celesta player, fourth percussionist, created orchestration for 'Les Sylphides'

1907 Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres

1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen

1904 Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne

1904 John Antill, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, studied under Alfred Hill, played in NSW State Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, famous for ballet suite Corroboree

1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres

1904 Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres

1903 Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer, Lied Symphony

1903 Gunther AR Raphael, German composer, Symphony Breve

1903 Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist, Boston Symphony Orchestra

1902 Emanuel Feuermann, born in Kolomea, Galicia, cellist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

1902 Jesus Maria Sanroma, Carolina PR, pianist, Boston Symphony

1902 Max Rudolf, born in Frankfurt, Germany, conductor, Goteberg Symphony Orchestra

1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony

1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St. Petersburg

1901 Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G, premieres

1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A

1898 Alfred Wallenstein, born in Chicago, Illinois, conductor, Chicago Symphony 1922 - 1929

1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)

1896 Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72

1895 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony

1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony

1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin

1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz

1893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres

1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"

1892 Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres

1890 Erich Kleiber, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, NBC Symphony 1945-46

1890 Lauritz Melchior, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, baritone tenor, National Symphony

1889 Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony

1889 Adrian Boult, born in Chester, England, conductor and composer, BBC Symphony Orchestra

1889 Cesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres

1888 Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

1888 St. Tsjaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in Petersburg

1887 Nadia Boulanger, conductor, 1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony

1886 Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres

1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres

1885 John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres

1884 Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig

1883 John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres

1882 Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony

1882 Leopold Stokowski, born in London, England, conductor, Cincinnati Symphony

1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert

1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony

1880 Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker, Diagonal Symphony

1878 Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres

1877 Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna

1877 Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres

1877 Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres

1876 John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres

1875 Pierre Monteux, born in Paris, France, conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919 - 1924

1869 Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65

1868 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor, Hebridean Symphony

1868 Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres

1865 Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete" Symphony," premieres

1858 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra

1854 Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres

1851 Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf

1850 Ole Olsen, born in Hammerfest, Norway, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major

1846 Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres

1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony

1841 Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres

1841 Antonin Dvorak, Nelahozeves Czechoslovakia, composer, New World Symphony

1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B

1830 Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres

1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna

1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres

1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres

1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B

1803 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D

1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C

1797 Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal, Austria, composer, Unfinished Symphony

1795 Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres

1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D

1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres

1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres

1770 Ludwig Van Beethoven, composer, 5th Symphony, Ode to Joy


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