Composer events for April

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Birthdays

João Pedro Miguell (1991)
Chris Ryan Williams (1987)
Paulo Rios Filho (1985)
Rihards Zaļupe (1983)
Bryan Holmes (1981)
Brad Stark (1980)
Roni Alec Liebenson (1980)
Graham John Wilson (1980)
Casey Mongoven (1979)
Gabriel Mãlãncioiu (1979)
Leah Kardos (1979)
Luke Bedford (1978)
Giorgi Latsabidze (1978)
Jiří Kadeřábek (1978)
Kevin Ure (1978)
Frederik Magle (1977)
Avner Dorman (1975)
Panayiotis Kokoras (1974)
Minas Borboudakis (1974)
Barry Paul Horrell (1974)
Alan Medeiros (1974)
Yalil Guerra (1973)
Peter Scartabello (1972)
Jury Everhartz (1971)
Josué Bonnín de Góngora (1970)
Eduardo Luís Patriarca (1970)
Michael Cooke (1970)
Allen James Teague (1970)
Esteban Benzecry (1970)
Marius Dragomir (1969)
Vanessa Lann (1968)
Marián Budoš (1968)
Stathis Giftakis (1967)
Brian Nelson (1967)
Joaquim Galvão (1967)
Rozalie Hirs (1965)
Robert Steadman (1965)
Augusta Read Thomas (1964)
Jo Wang (1964)
Alejandro Simonovich (1964)
Graham Fitkin (1963)
Andersen Viana (1962)
Alvaro Guevara y Vazquez (1962)
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (1962)
Kevin Ferguson (1961)
Karen Tanaka (1961)
Reza Najfar (1960)
Andrew Ladd (1960)
Robin Lamott (1960)
Martijn Hooning (1959)
Patrick Neher (1959)
Philip Czaplowski (1958)
Thomas Simaku (1958)
Christophe Looten (1958)
Joe Wiedemann (1958)
Steve Matchett (1957)
René Lussier (1957)
Jiří Gemrot (1957)
Arkadi Troitsky (1957)
Jeffery Cotton (1957)
Douglas Knehans (1957)
Adrian Williams (1956)
Gabriel Senanes (1956)
Ronald A. Hemmel (1956)
Michael Denhoff (1955)
Anne La Berge (1955)
Tatyana Divina (1955)
Eleanor Joanne Daley (1955)
Michael Daugherty (1954)
Robert Greenberg (1954)
Fred Vogels (1954)
Juan Manuel Cortés (1953)
Carlo Crivelli (1953)
Yi Chen (1953)
Magnar Åm (1952)
Peter Willsher (1951)
Teresa Catalán (1951)
Thomas Fortmann (1951)
Katerina Stamatelos (1951)
Richard Arnest (1950)
Michel Bero (1950)
Don "Orfeo" Rechtman (1950)
Robert E. Cucinotta (1949)
Vladimir Tošić (1949)
Robert Vinson (1949)
Pavel Kopecky (1949)
Daniel Catán (1949)
Michael Kamen (1948)
Marie-Christine Raboud-Theurillat (1948)
Nicola LeFanu (1947)
Michaël Lévinas (1947)
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947)
Pēteris Vasks (1946)
Livio Guerra (1946)
Anne Elizabeth Boyd (1946)
Nicolay Apollyon (1945)
Thomas Koppel (1944)
Alexander Vustin (1943)
Jacques Bank (1943)
Jorge Pítari (1943)
Jorge Antunes (1942)
John Mitchell (1941)
Elizabeth Vercoe (1941)
Adolphus Hailstork (1941)
Jan W. (Wilhelm) Morthenson (1940)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939)
John McCabe (1939)
Andrew Rudin (1939)
Frederic Rzewski (1938)
Lionel Rogg (1936)
Joaquim Gonçalves dos Santos (1936)
Conrad Susa (1935)
Aulis Sallinen (1935)
Siegfried Matthus (1934)
Sune Smedeby (1934)
Darijan Božič (1933)
Easley Blackwood (1933)
Morton Subotnick (1933)
Krzysztof Komeda (1931)
Alexei Nikolayev (1931)
Martin Boykan (1931)
Myriam Marbe (1931)
Christopher Headington (1930)
Francesco D’Avalos (1930)
Claude Bolling (1930)
Jerzy Abratowski (1929)
Edison Denisov (1929)
André [Andreas Ludwig] Previn (1929)
Rowan Taylor (1927)
Gerhard Samuel (1924)
Revol Samoilovich Bunin (1924)
Frank Stiles (1924)
Warren Barker (1923)
Harry Cox (1923)
John Bavicchi (1922)
Harry Freedman (1922)
Elmer Bernstein (1922)
Andrew Imbrie (1921)
William (Laurence) Bergsma (1921)
Harold Shapero (1920)
Louis Barron (1920)
Bruno Maderna (1920)
Karel Berman (1919)
Arthur St Germaine (1919)
István Anhalt (1919)
Piet Post (1919)
Denis Apivor (1916)
Alberto Ginastera (1916)
Violet Archer (1913)
Kent Kennan (1913)
Bernard Brindel (1912)
Carlos Guastavino (1912)
Phyllis (Margaret) Tate (1911)
Werner Wolf Glaser (1910)
Aloys Fleischmann (1910)
Miklós Rózsa (1907)
Mykola Terentiyevich Kolyada (1907)
Leopold Spinner (1906)
Hunter Johnson (1906)
Antal Dorati (1906)
Jef Maes (1905)
Eugène Bozza (1905)
Günter Raphael (1903)
Karel Albert (1901)
Henry Barraud (1900)
Willy Burkhard (1900)
Andrés Orchassal Sas (1900)
Edward K. "Duke" Ellington (1899)
Randall Thompson (1899)
Robert Casadesus (1899)
Harald Sæverud (1897)
Herbert Eimert (1897)
Max Kuhn (1896)
Eduard Toldrà (1895)
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895)
Paul Ludvig Irgens Jensen (1894)
Federico Mompou (1893)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892)
Gregor Schwake (1892)
Victor De Sabata (1892)
Sergey Prokofiev (1891)
Väinö Raitio (1891)
Efrem Zimbalist (1890)
Grigoras Dinicu (1889)
Florence Beatrice Price (1887)
Casimir von Paszthory (1886)
Luigi Russolo (1885)
Wallingford Riegger (1885)
Leó Weiner (1885)
Carlos Salzédo (1885)
Artur Schnabel (1882)
Sem Dresden (1881)
Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881)
Rudolf Nelson (1878)
Jean (Jules Aimable) Roger-Ducasse (1873)
Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873)
Eyvind Alnæs (1872)
Arthur Farwell (1872)
Leo Blech (1871)
Franz Lehár (1870)
Joseph Ryelandt (1870)
Albert Roussel (1869)
José Vianna da Motta (1868)
Max von Schillings (1868)
John Blackwood McEwan (1868)
Karel Navrátil (1867)
Felix Rosenthal (1867)
Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni (1866)
Eugen d’Albert (1864)
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863)
Georgi Lvovitch Catoire (1861)
Marco Enrico Bossi (1861)
Basil Harwood (1859)
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858)
Léon Walpot (1858)
Stanisław Barcewicz (1858)
František Ondříček (1857)
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857)
Gustav Hanns Struempel (1855)
Adolf Wallnöfer (1854)
Luigi Abussi (1852)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850)
Francesco Paoli Tosti (1846)
Asger Hamerik (1843)
Karl Millöcker (1842)
Smith Newell Penfield (1837)
Wilhelm [Guill.] Popp (1828)
Giuseppe Apolloni (1822)
Louis (Lazarus) Lewandowski (1821)
Franz von Suppé (1819)
William Sterndale Bennett (1816)
Robert Volkmann (1815)
Friedrich von Flotow (1812)
Félix Le Couppey (1811)
Félicien-César David (1810)
Auguste Joseph Franchomme (1808)
Franz Lachner (1803)
Joseph Lanner (1801)
Jean Andries (1798)
Pedro Albéniz (1795)
Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786)
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (1785)
Dionisio Aguado (1784)
Louis Spohr (1784)
Ludwig Berger (1777)
Hyacinthe Jadin (1776)
Václav Jan Tomášek (1774)
Anton Heinrich Liste (1772)
Carolus Antonius (Antoine) Fodor (1768)
Andreas Jakob Romberg (1767)
Jacques(-Christian-Michel) Widerkehr (1759)
Alessandro Rolla (1757)
Vincenc Václav Mašek (1755)
Pedro Étienne Solère (1753)
Nicola Antonio Zingarelli (1752)
Jean-Baptiste Moyne (1751)
(father) Roman(us) Hoffstetter (1742)
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741)
Antonín Kammel|Kamml|Kamel (1730)
Pasquale Anfossi (1727)
Henri Hardouin (1727)
Charles Burney (1726)
Pietro Nardini (1722)
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (1722)
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721)
Pieter Hellendaal (1721)
Mathias Georg Monn (1717)
James Nares (1715)
Michel Corrette (1707)
Giovanni Battista Martini (1706)
Giuseppe Tartini (1692)
Ferdinand Zellbell (der Ältere) (1689)
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688)
Johann David Heinichen (1683)
Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682)
André-Cardinal Destouches (1672)
Christian Ludwig Boxberg (1670)
Johann-Heinrich Buttstett|Buttstedt (1666)
Sebastián Durón (1660)
Johann Kuhnau (1660)
Giuseppe Torelli (1658)
Domenico Gabrielli (1651)
Gaspar Sanz (1640)
Jean Henry D’Anglebert (1629)
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627)
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini (1614)
Giacomo Carissimi (1605)
Johannes Crüger (1598)
Juraj [Jiří, Jiřik, Georg] Tranovský (1592)
Thomas Simpson (1582)
Claudio Merulo (1533)
Claudio Merculo (1533)
Robert Fayrfax (1464)

Dying days

Wim Franken (2012)
Peter Lieberson (2011)
Daniel Catán (2011)
Johannes Fritsch (2010)
Adele Berk (2010)
Edward Harper (2009)
Henry Brant (2008)
Bebe Barron (2008)
Jan Koetsier (2006)
Benzion Orgad (2006)
Robin Orr (2006)
Robert John Farnon (2005)
Robert Avalon (2004)
Edmond De Luca (2004)
Robert Starer (2001)
Bernhard Heiden (2000)
Inglis Gundry (2000)
Luting He (1999)
Roman Maciejewski (1998)
Mel Powell (1998)
Ivan Tcherepnin (1998)
Michael Bowles (1998)
Willem Hendrik Zwart (1997)
Toshiro Mayuzumi (1997)
Yuly Sergueievitch Meytus (1997)
Blas Galindo Dimas (1993)
Lydia Auster (1993)
Olivier Messiaen (1992)
Albert Henneberg (1991)
Karl Höller (1987)
Dag Ivar Wirén (1986)
Antonio Lauro (1986)
Boris Tikhonovich Kozhevnikov (1985)
Heinrich Konietzny (1983)
Willem Frederik Bon (1983)
Elisabeth Lutyens (1983)
Anatoly Alexandrov (1982)
Hendrik Andriessen (1981)
Padre Luís de Sousa Rodrigues (1979)
Nino Rota (1979)
William Bailey (1977)
Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1976)
Akio Yashiro (1976)
Margaret Bonds (1972)
Stefan Wolpe (1972)
Ferde Grofé (1972)
Max Drischner (1971)
Igor Stravinsky (1971)
Hall (Francis) Johnson (1970)
Krzysztof Komeda (1969)
Paul Ludvig Irgens Jensen (1969)
Borys Nikolayevich Lyatoshyns’ky (1968)
Aaron Avshalomov (1965)
Julius Harrison (1963)
Manolis Kalomiris (1962)
Wallingford Riegger (1961)
Arthur Benjamin (1960)
Juan Vicente Lecuna (1954)
Edwin Grasse (1954)
Ludovic Lamothe (1953)
John Alden Carpenter (1951)
Jerzy Fitelberg (1951)
Halfdan Cleve (1951)
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1950)
Kurt Weill (1950)
Basil Harwood (1949)
Manuel Maria Ponce (1948)
Joseph Wihtol (1948)
Václav Kaprál (1947)
Jesús Castillo (1946)
Cécile Chaminade (1944)
Mikuláš Moyzes (1944)
Leo Smit (Dutch) (1943)
Gustave Doret (1943)
Josef Alexander Pasternack (1940)
John Herbert Foulds (1939)
Arthur William Foote (1937)
Bernard van Dieren (1936)
Ottorino Respighi (1936)
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1935)
Victor Ewald (1935)
Carl Smulders (1934)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1933)
George Whitefield Chadwick (1931)
Ödön Mihalovich (1929)
André Caplet (1925)
Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1924)
Hans Sommer (1922)
František Ondříček (1922)
Arabella Goddard (1922)
Alphons Diepenbrock (1921)
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1920)
Scott Joplin (1917)
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin|Skriabin (1915)
František Kmoch (1912)
Albert Pieczonka (1912)
John Knowles Paine (1906)
Ignacio Cervantes (1905)
Karl Komzak (1905)
Guiseppe Gariboldi (1905)
Ivar Christian Hallström (1901)
Louis Theodore Gouvy (1898)
Johannes Brahms (1897)
Alexander Sascha Ritter (1896)
Hieronymus Weickmann (1895)
Armand Saintis (1894)
Edouard Lalo (1892)
Johannes Worp (1891)
Henry Ketten (1883)
Temistocle Solera (1878)
Franz Anton Schubert (1878)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1876)
Sigismond Thalberg (1871)
Charles Auguste de Bériot (1870)
Carl Loewe (1869)
Alexander Dreyschock (1869)
Franz Berwald (1868)
Johann [Jan] Nepomuk Kaňka (1865)
Jacques-François Halévy (1862)
Johann Baptiste Cramer (1858)
Anton Diabelli (1858)
Sigismund Neukomm (1858)
Pedro Albéniz (1855)
Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1853)
Václav Jan Tomášek (1850)
Gaetano Donizetti (1848)
Josef Triebensee (1846)
Joseph Lanner (1843)
János Bihari (1827)
Franz Danzi (1826)
Jacques(-Christian-Michel) Widerkehr (1823)
Franz [František] Xaver Partsch|Bartsch (1822)
(Jean Baptiste) Edouard Du Puy (1822)
Jan Jakub Ryba (1815)
Charles Burney (1814)
Joachim Nikolas Eggert (1813)
Johann Christian Kittel (1809)
Louis François Chambray (1807)
Johann Gottfried Schwanenberger|Schwanberger (1804)
Pieter Hellendaal (1799)
Josef Antonín [Joseph Anton] Štěpán (1797)
Carlo Antonio Campioni (1788)
Ignaz Holzbauer (1783)
Maria Antonia Walpurga (1780)
Ferdinand Zellbell (der Jüngere) (1780)
Tommaso Traetta (1779)
Johann Adolf Scheibe (1776)
Johann Mattheson (1764)
Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel (1759)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1756)
Giacomo Antonio Perti (1756)
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1714)
Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (1712)
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1705)
Andres De Sola (1696)
Jean Henry D’Anglebert (1691)
Johann Erasmus Kindermann (1655)
Manuel Machado (1646)
Johann Vierdanck|Virdanck|Vyrdanck|Feyertagk (1646)
Tobias Hume (1645)
Agostino Agazzari (1640)
Sigismondo D’India (1629)
Alonso Lobo (1617)
Nicolas Payen|Paien (1559)
Francesco Canova da Milano (1543)
Francisco de Peñalosa (1528)
Guillaume de Machaut (1377)
Alfonso El Sabio (1284)
Peter (Petrus) Abelard|Abélard|Abaelardus (1142)
Notker Balbulus (912)

MusicAtlas events

(1464) → Deeping Gate → Robert Fayrfax
(1533) → Correggio → Claudio Merulo
(1592) → Třanovice → Juraj [Jiří, Jiřik, Georg] Tranovský
(1605) Palazzo Comunale → Marino → Giacomo Carissimi
(1605) → Marino → Giacomo Carissimi
(1627) (café Wolff) → Adorf → Johann Caspar Kerll
(1651) → Bologna → Domenico Gabrielli
(1660) → Geising → Johann Kuhnau
(1668) Kaufmannskirche → Erfurt → Johann Sebastian Bach
(1683) → Krößuln → Johann David Heinichen
(1685) → Verona → Giuseppe Torelli
(1688) → Buttelstedt → Johann Friedrich Fasch
(1706) → Bologna → Giovanni Battista Martini
(1707) → Rouen → Gaspard Corrette
(1721) → Rotterdam → Pieter Hellendaal
(1721) → Saalfeld → Johann Philipp Kirnberger
(1741) Rathaus → Dresden-Blasewitz → Johann Gottlieb Naumann
(1742) The Great Musick Hall → Dublin → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
(1747) → Skuteč → Václav Jan Tomášek
(1755) → Zvíkovec → Vincenc Václav Mašek
(1756) → Bologna → Giacomo Antonio Perti
(1759) Westminster Abbey → Westminster → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
(1764) Michaeliskirche → Hamburg → Johann Mattheson
(1766) Grote of St. Bavokerk → Haarlem → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1766) Place Royale → Utrecht → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1770) Palazzo Pitti → Firenze → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1770) Villa Poggio Imperiale → Firenze → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1770) Villa Poggio Imperiale → Firenze → Pietro Nardini
(1770) Cappella Sistina → Città del Vaticano → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1770) San Apollinare → Roma → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1770) → Roma → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1784) → Braunschweig → Louis Spohr
(1786) Schloss Wartensee → Nottwil / Neuenkirch (LU) → Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee
(1789) → Dresden-Loschwitz → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
(1799) St Mary the Less → Cambridge → Pieter Hellendaal
(1803) → Rain am Lech → Franz Lachner
(1812) → Sanitz-Teutendorf → Friedrich von Flotow
(1815) → Lommatzsch → Robert Volkmann
(1815) hřbitov Stará Rožmitál → Rožmitál pod Třemšínem → Jan Jakub Ryba
(1822) → Praha - Staré Město → Franz [František] Xaver Partsch|Bartsch
(1846) Palazzo Corvo → Ortona sul Mare → Francesco Paoli Tosti
(1850) byvaly Malostranský hřbitov → Praha - Smíchov → Václav Jan Tomášek
(1857) → Praha - Hradčany → František Ondříček
(1861) Municipio → Salò → Marco Enrico Bossi
(1864) Haus Wille → Meilen (ZH) Mariafeld → Richard Wagner
(1866) → Empoli → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
(1866) Rathaussaal → Koblenz → Max Bruch
(1866) Mozes & Aaron-kerk → Amsterdam → Ferenc [Franz] Liszt
(1868) Dom St. Petri → Bremen → Johannes Brahms
(1868) Weyerhof → Düren-Gürzenich → Max von Schillings
(1869) Olšanské hřbitovy → Praha 3 - Žižkov → Alexander Dreyschock
(1869) St. Nikolai zu Kiel → Kiel → Carl Loewe
(1869) Parkfriedhof Eichhof → Kiel → Carl Loewe
(1870) → Komárno → Franz Lehár
(1872) → Eckersdorf-Donndorf → Richard Wagner
(1885) Palazzo Venonzio → Portogruaro → Luigi Russolo
(1912) Městské hřbitov → Kolín → František Kmoch
(1921) R.K. begr.pl. Buitenveldert → Amsterdam → Alphons Diepenbrock
(1924) All Saints Church → Birchington → Rosalind Frances Ellicott
(1933) Südfriedhof → Leipzig → Sigfrid Karg-Elert
(1936) Cimetero “La Certosa” → Bologna → Ottorino Respighi
(1971) Cimetero San Michele → Venezia - Isola di San Michele → Igor Stravinsky

Music events

Premiere of Dafne, in Torgau, Germany. (1627) → Heinrich Schütz
Premiere of St. John Passion, in Leipzig, Germany. (1724) → Johann Sebastian Bach
Premiere of St. Matthew Passion, in Leipzig, Germany. (1729) → Johann Sebastian Bach
Premiere of Alcina, in London, England. (1735) → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
Premiere of Xerxes, in London, England. (1738) → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
Premiere of Israel in Egypt, in London, England. (1739) → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
Premiere of The Messiah, in Dublin, Ireland. (1742) → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
Premiere of Judas Maccabeus, in London, England. (1747) → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
Premiere of the Music for the Royal Fireworks, in London, England. (1749) → Georg Friedrich [George Frideric] Händel
Premiere of Iphigenie in Aulis, in Paris, France. (1774) → Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Premiere of piano concerto in c minor KV 491, in Vienna, Austria, with Mozart at the piano. (1786) → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
Premiere of piano concerto in D major KV 537 “Krönungskonzert”, in Dresden, Germany. (1789) → Wolfgang Amadeus [Amadé] Mozart
Premiere of Die Schöpfung (The Creation), in Vienna, Austria. (1798) → Franz Joseph Haydn
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in c minor op. 21, in Vienna, Austria, with Paul Wranitsky conducting. (1800) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), in Vienna, Austria. (1801) → Franz Joseph Haydn
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in D major op. 36, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1803) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of piano concerto no. 3 in c minor op. 37, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven at the piano. (1803) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in E flat major op. 55 “Eroica”, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1805) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of piano trio in B flat major op. 97 “Erzherzogtrio”, in Vienna, Austria. (1814) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Missa Solemnis op. 123, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1824) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Oberon, in London, England, with Weber conducting. (1826) → Carl Maria von Weber
Premiere of violin concerto no. 4 in d minor, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (1830) → Nicoló Paganini
Premiere of Undine, in Magdeburg, Germany. (1845) → Gustav Albert Lortzing
Premiere of Le Prophète, in Paris, France. (1849) → Giacomo Meyerbeer
Premiere of the Te Deum op. 22, in Paris, France. (1855) → Hector Berlioz
Premiere of L'Africaine, in Paris, France. (1865) → Giacomo Meyerbeer
Premiere of Bruch's violin concerto no. 1 in g minor op. 26, in Koblenz, Germany, with Joachim playing violin and Bruch conducting. (1866) → Max Bruch
Premiere of Bruch's violin concerto no. 1 in g minor op. 26, in Koblenz, Germany, with Joachim playing violin and Bruch conducting. (1866) → Joseph Joachim
Premiere of the piano concerto in a minor op. 16, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (1869) → Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Premiere of Die Fledermaus in Vienna, Austria, with Strauß conducting. (1874) → Johann Strauß Jr.
Premiere of The Moldau, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1875) → Bedřich Smetana
Premiere of Die Makkabäer, in Berlin, Germany. (1875) → Anton Rubinstein
Premiere of La Gioconda, in Milan, Italy. (1876) → Amilcare Ponchielli
Premiere of Lakmé, in Paris, France. (1883) → Léo Delibes
Premiere of The Canterbury Pilgrims, in London, England. (1884) → Charles Villiers Stanford
Premiere of Symphony no. 7 in d minor op. 70, London, England. (1885) → Antonín Dvořák
Premiere of Gwendoline, in Brussels, Belgium. (1886) → Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier
Premiere of Edgar, in Milan, Italy. (1889) → Giacomo Puccini
Premiere of Symphony no. 4 in d minor op. 13, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Dvořák conducting. (1892) → Antonín Dvořák
Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, in Vienna, Austria. (1894) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of Der Arme Heinrich, in Mainz, Germany, with Pfitzner conducting. (1895) → Hans Pfitzner
Premiere of Jeux d'Eau, in Paris, France. (1902) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of Pavane pour un Infante Défunte, in Paris, France. (1902) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of Pelléas et Mélissande, in Paris, France. (1902) → Claude Debussy
Premiere of Chopiniana/Les Sylphides, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1906) → Alexander Glazunov
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in d minor, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1909) → Milii Balakirev
Premiere of Ma Mère l'Oye for two pianos, in Paris, France. (1910) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of piano sonata op. 1 and string quartet op. 3, in Vienna, Austria. (1911) → Alban Berg
Premiere of Die Brautwahl, in Hamburg, Germany. (1912) → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
Premiere of La Vida Breve, in Nice, France. (1913) → Manuel de Falla
Premiere of Notre Dame, in Vienna, Austria. (1914) → Franz Schmidt
Premiere of Noches en los Jardines de España, in Madrid, Spain. (1916) → Manuel de Falla
Premiere of the Classical Symphony in D major op. 25, in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Prokofiev conducting. (1918) → Sergey Prokofiev
Premiere of Die Gezeichneten, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (1918) → Franz Schreker
Premiere of Amériques, in Philadelphia, USA. (1926) → Edgard Varèse
Premiere of Turandot, in Milan, Italy. (1926) → Giacomo Puccini
Premiere of Arcana, in Philadelphia, USA. (1927) → Edgard Varèse
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in F major, in New York, USA. (1927) → George Antheil
Premiere of Wandlungen, in Baden-Baden, Germany. (1928) → Joseph Matthias Hauer
Premiere of Apollon Musagète, in Washington, USA. (1928) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of From the House of the Dead, in Brno, Czech Republic. (1930) → Leoš Janáček
Premiere of Drei Orchesterstücke op. 6 (complete version), in Oldenburg, Germany. (1930) → Alban Berg
Premiere of violin concerto no. 2 “The Prophets”, in New York, USA. (1933) → Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
Premiere of the violin concerto “Dem Andenken eines Engels”, in Barcelona, Spain. (1936) → Alban Berg
Premiere of The Old Maid and the Thief, on NBC radio, USA. (1939) → Gian Carlo Menotti
Premiere of Symphony no. 6 “Gettysburg”, in Boston, USA. (1944) → Roy Harris
Premiere of Guignol et Pandore, in Paris, France. (1944) → André Jolivet
Premiere of Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine, in Paris, France. (1945) → Olivier Messiaen
Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in New York, USA. (1946) → Charles Ives
Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Munich, Germany. (1948) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in e minor, in London, England. (1948) → Ralph Vaughan Williams
Premiere of the Concerto for Ondes Martenot and Orchestra, in Vienna, Austria. (1948) → André Jolivet
Premiere of The Age of Anxiety (symphony no. 2), in Boston, USA. (1949) → Leonard Bernstein
Premiere of Golgotha, in Geneva, Switzerland. (1949) → Frank Martin
Premiere of The Pilgrim's Progress, in London, England. (1951) → Ralph Vaughan Williams
Premiere of concert for string orchestra no. 1, Stockholm, Sweden. (1952) → Gustaf Allan Pettersson
Premiere of Livre d'Orgue, Stuttgart, Germany, with Messiaen at the organ. (1953) → Olivier Messiaen
Premiere of Symphony no. 6, in Munich, Germany. (1953) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Premiere of The Tender Land, in New York, USA. (1954) → Aaron Copland
Premiere of Variations for Orchestra, in Louisville, USA. (1956) → Elliott Carter
Premiere of Symphony no. 12, in Washington D.C., USA. (1958) → Heitor Villa-Lobos
Premiere of Fontana Mix, in New York, USA. (1959) → John Cage
Premiere of Intolleranza, in Venice, Italy. (1960) → Luigi Nono
Premiere of Jeux Vénetiens, in Cracow, Poland. (1961) → Witold Lutosławski
Premiere of Polymorphia, in Hamburg, Germany. (1962) → Krzysztof Penderecki
Premiere of Aventures, in Hamburg, Germany, with Cerha conducting. (1963) → Friedrich Cerha
Premiere of Aventures, in Hamburg, Germany, with Cerha conducting. (1963) → György Sándor Ligeti
Premiere of Stratégie, in Venice, Italy. (1963) → Iannis Xenakis
Premiere of Montezuma, in Berlin, Germany. (1964) → Roger Huntington Sessions
Premiere of Der Junge Lord, in Berlin, Germany. (1965) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in Moscow, Russia. (1965) → Rodion Shchedrin
Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in New York, USA. (1965) → Charles Ives
Premiere of the cello concerto, in Berlin, Germany. (1967) → György Sándor Ligeti
Premiere of Musique pour les Soupers du Roi Ubu (scenic), in Düsseldorf, Germany. (1968) → Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Premiere of Nomos Gamma, in Rouen, France. (1969) → Iannis Xenakis
Premiere of Le Dialogue des Carmelites for orchestra, in Paris, France. (1969) → Jean Françaix
Premiere of Chamber Concert, in Ottawa, Canada. (1970) → György Sándor Ligeti
Premiere of Symphony no. 11 “Delle Cornamuse”, in Milan, Italy. (1971) → Gian Francesco Malipiero
Premiere of Melusine, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (1971) → Aribert Reimann
Premiere of Staatstheater, in Hamburg, Germany. (1971) → Mauricio Kagel
Premiere of Boulez' Rituel in Memoriam Maderna, in London, England. (1975) → Pierre Boulez
Premiere of Boulez' Rituel in Memoriam Maderna, in London, England. (1975) → Bruno Maderna
Premiere of Music for 18 Musicians, in New York, USA. (1976) → Steve Reich
Premiere of Le Grand Macabre, in Stockholm, Sweden. (1978) → György Sándor Ligeti
Premiere of Die Wundersame Schustersfrau, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (1982) → Udo Zimmermann
Premiere of The Mask of Time, in Boston, USA. (1984) → Michael Tippett
Premiere of Concerto Grosso no. 3, in Moscow, Russia. (1985) → Alfred Schnittke
Premiere of Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (1986) → Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Premiere of Die Hamletmaschine, in Mannheim, Germany. (1987) → Wolfgang Rihm
Premiere of La Forêt, in Geneva, Switzerland. (1987) → Rolf Liebermann
First performance of "Gryning vid Örnvägen 52", in S. Sandby, Sweden. (1987) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of the Chiffre-Zyklus, in Witten, Germany. (1988) → Wolfgang Rihm
First performance of "The total distruction of modern classical music, yeah!", in Falun, Sweden. (1988) → Peter Wallin
First performances of "Symphony No. 1" and "The Symphony Race" (as soundtrack to the motion picture "the Visitors"), in cinemas in Sweden. (1988) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of One Hundred and One, in Boston, USA. (1989) → John Cage
Premiere of Symphony no. 4 (second version), in Moscow, Russia. (1989) → Alfred Schnittke
Premiere of Medea-Spiel, in Salzburg, Austria. (1989) → Wolfgang Rihm
Premiere of Aspects of Love, in London, England. (1989) → Andrew Lloyd Webber
First performance of "The Pen", in Grängesberg, Sweden. (1989) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Ein Empfinsames Konzert für Kontrabaß, in Heidelberg, Germany. (1989) → Kurt Schwertsik
First live performance of "The Fright of the Unknown", in Lund, Sweden. (1990) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Beiseit, in Witten, Germany. (1990) → Heinz Holliger
Premiere of Debout sur le Solei op. 8, in Paris, France. (1991) → Jean-Louis Florentz
First performances of "Svettpehrlor", "Schäöuu po mårrånänn!!!" and "Harmony Family", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1991) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Freeman Etudes, in Cologne, Germany. (1991) → John Cage
First performance of "Far Out", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1992) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Schön ist das Leben", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1994) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "On the 2100th day", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1995) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Mirror 6 41 14 6", in Hjerting, Denmark. (1995) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Premiere of En Quete , Saint Cloud, France. Premiere of "En Quete" for mezzo-soprano voice, narrator, violin and piano, in Saint Cloud, France (1999) → Sophie Lacaze
First performance of "Symphony No. 3", in Lund, Sweden. (2000) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of And then there was the sun in the sky, Paris (France). Premiere of "And then there was the sun in the sky" for solo flute, didgeridoo in Eb and flute orchestra, in Paris, France (2002) → Sophie Lacaze
First performance of "Herren er min hyrde", in Sneum, Denmark. (2003) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Azure for flute, violin, viola, cello and computer music, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, USA. On April 3, 2003 The Azure Ensemble presented a concert featuring electronic music by women composers, including the premiere of Alice Shields' "Azure." Composers Alice Shields (2003) → Alice Shields
Premiere of Kyrielle for violin and tape, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. On April, 4. 2004 "Kyrielle" for violin and tape was presented for the first time, by violinist Airi Yoshioka at the Fine Arts Recital Hall, University of Maryland - Baltimore Country, presented by the Music Department. Yoshioka commissioned the work, which was revised in 2006-2008. Composers Alice Shields (2004) → Alice Shields
Premiere of Toccatina Capricciosa for solo piano (written 1823) at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, USA, with Artis Wodehouse playing the piano. (2006) → Anthony Philip Heinrich
Premiere of First performance of "Fancy Lady Manners" (movement 2 from "H.C. Andersen Suite", Billundcentret, Billund, Denmark. First performance of "Fancy Lady Manners" (movement 2 from "H.C. Andersen Suite", in Billundcentret, Billund, Denmark (2006) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of "Ripples of Flame", a song cycle on poems by T.E. Browen for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. (2006) → Andrew Griffiths
New York City premiere of "Native New Yorker" featuring an original score by William Susman at the Tribeca Film Festival, in New York, USA (2006) → William Susman
Premiere of Premiere of Song Cycle “To what purpose, April...?”, New York, NY, USA. Premiere of Song Cycle “To what purpose, April...?”, in New York, USA. (2007) → Jonathan Bailey Holland
Premiere of Premiere of “The Valley at Annacarla”, by Durago Youth Symphony, in Durango, Colorado, USA, Fort Lewis State College, Durango, Colorado, USA. Premiere of “The Valley at Annacarla”, by Durago Youth Symphony, in Durango, Colorado, USA (2007) → Michael Mauldin
Premiere of "Lasea" for string orchestra at the Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in Bratislava, Slovakia. (2007) → Peter Machajdík
Premiere of First performance of the Suite for three flutes in Neuchâtel, Switzerland., Neuchâtel Cathedral, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. First performance of the Suite for three flutes in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. (2007) → Laurent Mettraux
Premiere of Concert of American Quartets and Trios, Hall of the Composers Union, Kyiv, Ukraine. Premiere of The Ukrainian Quartet, Breathless — Joel's Fast (string quartet) by Job, part of Musical Premieres of the Season (2008) → Lynn Job

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