Composer events for December

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Birthdays

André Miranda (1989)
Edward Southall (1986)
Agustin Besteiro (1985)
Jaime Reis (1983)
Ross Popoff (1981)
Xabier Oianguren (1979)
Colin Stack (1979)
Gianluca Cangemi (1979)
Jason Thomas (1978)
Luke Parkin (1978)
Aitor Arronte (1978)
Anne Victorino d’Almeida (1978)
Evren Genis (1978)
Alberto C. Bernal (1978)
Philip Rothman (1976)
Peter Gilbert (1975)
Slawomir Zamuszko (1973)
Anton Steinecker (1971)
Yoke Cheng Wong (1971)
Vsevolod Chmoulevitch (1970)
Stefan Meylaers (1970)
Jani Kääriä (1969)
Charles Coleman (1968)
Christopher Milmerstadt (1967)
Alla Zagaykevych (1966)
Carlyle Sharpe (1965)
Ian Wilson (1964)
Mercedes Zavala Gironés (1963)
Niel van der Watt (1962)
Ray Sciberras (1962)
Enrico Miaroma (1962)
Peter Zagar (1961)
Matthew Fields (1961)
Kevin Kastning (1960)
José Mesquita Lopes (1960)
Michael Jones (1960)
Philippe Bodin (1960)
Osvaldo Golijov (1960)
Jay Weigel (1959)
Zlata Razdolina (1959)
Ronald Caltabiano (1959)
Tom Salvatori (1958)
Igor Panov (1958)
William Camilleri (1958)
Nicholas Simpson (1958)
Julia Wolfe (1958)
John Faverman (1957)
Vasco Pereira (1956)
Bright Sheng (1955)
Kenneth Frazelle (1955)
Beat Furrer (1954)
Andrew Violette (1954)
Hans-Jürgen von Bose (1953)
David Leisner (1953)
Cornelis de Bondt (1953)
Hans Abrahamsen (1952)
Roger Bourland (1952)
John Buckley (1951)
David Froom (1951)
Kenneth LaFave (1951)
Daniel Leo Simpson (1950)
Libby Larsen (1950)
Arturo Márquez (1950)
Jorge Lima Barreto (1949)
Edward P. Mascari (1949)
Roussi Tarmakov (1949)
Chan Ka Nin (1949)
Abraham Walker (1948)
Giorgio Lanzani (1948)
Jean-Louis Florentz (1947)
Pierre Even (1946)
Clarence Barlow (1945)
Luca Lombardi (1945)
Ig Henneman (1945)
Ron Hannah (1945)
ManBang Yi (1945)
Faradj Karayev (1943)
Michèle Reverdy (1943)
Friedrich Schenker (1942)
Wayland Rogers (1941)
Rogier van Otterloo (1941)
Frank Zappa (1940)
Heidi Baader Nobs (1940)
William Ryden (1939)
Tomas Svoboda (1939)
Bart Berman (1938)
Gunther Tautenhahn (1938)
Roland Corijn (1938)
John Harbison (1938)
Alvin Curran (1938)
José Serebrier (1938)
Jan Bach (1937)
Gordon Crosse (1937)
Alan Ridout (1934)
Henryk Górecki (1933)
Leslie Adams (1932)
Louis-Noël Belaubre (1932)
Rodion Shchedrin (1932)
Mauricio Kagel (1931)
Harold Owen (1931)
Nancy Van de Vate (1930)
Jacqueline Fontyn (1930)
Ron Nelson (1929)
León Biriotti (1929)
Kamilló Lendvay (1928)
Heinrich Poos (1928)
Pierre Henry (1927)
Jacques Bondon (1927)
Earle Brown (1926)
Andrei Avanesowich Babayev (1923)
Dimitri Fampas (1921)
Dave Brubeck (1920)
Robert Moevs (1920)
Moishei (Mieczyslaw Samuilowicz) Vainberg (1919)
Gideon Klein (1919)
Elliot Weisgarber (1919)
Hans Federico Neuman (1917)
Georgi Vasilievich Sviridov (1915)
Irving Fine (1914)
Hans Henkemans (1913)
Morton Gould (1913)
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912)
Endre Szervansky (1911)
Stanley Richard Bate (1911)
Nino Rota (1911)
Gerard Hengeveld (1910)
Vagn Holmboe (1909)
Eurico Thomaz de Lima (1908)
Elliott Carter (1908)
Olivier Messiaen (1908)
Georgios Kasassoglou (1908)
Roman Palester (1907)
Willem van Otterloo (1907)
Ross Lee Finney (1906)
Fernando Lopes Graça (1906)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904)
Nathan Milstein (1903)
Dimiter Nenov (1901)
Alan Bush (1900)
Renato Parodi (1900)
Silvestre Revueltas (1899)
Sebastiano Caltebiano (1899)
Roger Huntington Sessions (1896)
Boleslaw Szabelski (1896)
Henriëtte Bosmans (1895)
Ernest John Moeran (1894)
Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshynsky (1894)
Paul Dessau (1894)
Leo Ornstein (1892)
Maurice Schoemaker (1890)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890)
Bernard van Dieren (1887)
Ernst Toch (1887)
Charles Louis Seeger (1886)
Edgard Varèse (1883)
Anton Webern (1883)
Walter Braunfels (1882)
Zoltán Kodály (1882)
Joaquin Turina (1882)
Manuel Maria Ponce (1882)
Otto Olsson (1879)
Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879)
Pablo Casals (1876)
Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876)
Dobri Hristov (1875)
Reinhold Moritzovich Glière (1874)
Franz Schmidt (1874)
Joseph Jongen (1873)
Lorenzo Perosi (1872)
Henry Kimball Hadley (1871)
Vitezslav Novak (1870)
Stefan Timofeyevich Abbakumov (1870)
Jean Sibelius (1865)
Gustav Uwe Jenner (1865)
Pietro Mascagni (1863)
Moritz (Maurycy) Rosenthal (1862)
Edward MacDowell (1861)
Hans Fährmann (1860)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859)
Giacomo Puccini (1858)
Hendrika van Tussenbroek (1854)
André-Charles Messager (1853)
Andrey Schulz-Evler (1852)
Zdenek Fibich (1850)
Iver Holter (1850)
Augusta (Mary Anne) Holmès (1847)
Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847)
Richard Kleinmichel (1846)
Andreas Hallén (1846)
Augusto Machado (1845)
Calixa Lavallée (1842)
Gustav Adolph Niemann (1841)
Donato Lovreglio (1841)
Hermann Götz (1840)
Alexis de Castillon (1838)
Rudolph Friedrich Niemann (1838)
Charles-Emile Waldteufel (1837)
George Frederick Bristow (1825)
Peter Cornelius (1824)
Edmund Thomas Chipp (1823)
Theodor Kirchner (1823)
César Auguste Franck (1822)
Johannes Worp (1821)
Giovanni Bottesini (1821)
Franz Abt (1819)
Julius Rietz (1812)
Louis Schindelmeisser (1811)
Ludwig Schuncke (1810)
Hector Berlioz (1803)
Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner (1791)
Maria Szymanowska (1789)
João Domingos Bomtempo (1775)
François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
Franz Wilhelm Tausch (1762)
Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758)
Pavel (Paul) Vranický (1756)
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750)
Domenico Cimarosa (1749)
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745)
Giuseppe Giordani (1745)
Maddalena Laura Lombardini-Sirmen (1745)
Anton Zimmermann (1741)
Jan Evangelista Antonin Kozeluh (1738)
Robert (OSB) Kimmerling (1737)
(Johann) Christian Cannabich (1731)
Frantisek Xaver Dušek (1731)
Capel Bond (1730)
Padre Antonio Soler (1729)
Giuseppe Sarti (1729)
Johann Adam Hiller (1728)
Franz Xaver Pokorny (1728)
Karl Friedrich Abel (1723)
Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville (1711)
Jean-Noel Hamal (1709)
Franz Xaver Richter (1709)
Joseph-Bodin de Boismortier (1689)
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687)
Francesco Geminiani (1687)
William Croft (1678)
Louis-Nicolas Clérembault (1676)
André Campra (1660)
Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657)
Giovanni Maria Capelli (1648)
Daniel Eberlin (1647)
Johann Christoph Bach (1642)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637)
Samuel Friedrich Capricornus (1628)
Johann Rudolf Ahle (1625)
Agostino Agazzari (1578)
Manuel Cardoso (1566)
Orazio Vecchi (1550)

Dying days

Jiří Pauer (2007)
Robert Moevs (2007)
András Szöllősy (2007)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (2007)
Andrew Imbrie (2007)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya (2006)
Daniel Pinkham (2006)
Lucien Goethals (2006)
James Brown (2004)
Jan van Vlijmen (2004)
Alexei Nikolayev (2003)
John Dered Sanders (2003)
María Escribano (2002)
Elliot Weisgarber (2001)
Dimitris Dragatakis (2001)
Robert Helps (2001)
Erich Schmid (2000)
Marcel Landowski (1999)
Edgar M. Deale (1999)
Leo Smit (American) (1999)
Sune Smedeby (1998)
Albert de Klerk (1998)
Henry Barraud (1997)
Tristan Keuris (1996)
Aleksi (Alexei) Davidovich Machavariani|Matchavariani|ალექსი მაჭავარიანი (1995)
Richard Purvis (1994)
Yvonne Berthe Melitta Desportes (1993)
Frank Zappa (1993)
Stephen Albert (1992)
Nathan Milstein (1992)
Heikki Johannes Aaltoila (1992)
Ernst Křenek (1991)
Aaron Copland (1990)
Lennox Berkeley (1989)
Pablo Sorozabal (1988)
Lars Erik Larsson (1986)
Philipp Jarnach (1982)
Cornelius Cardew (1981)
Alec Wilder (1980)
Piet Post (1979)
William Grant Still (1978)
Johann Nepomuk David (1977)
Benjamin Britten (1976)
Bernard Herrmann (1975)
André Jolivet (1974)
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte (1974)
Henri Büsser (1973)
Patrick Hadley (1973)
César Geoffray (1972)
Jan Mul (1971)
Max Steiner (1971)
Hugo Godron (1971)
Cyril Scott (1970)
Siegfried Reda (1968)
Victor De Sabata (1967)
Gaspar Cassadó (1966)
Yuri Shaporin (1966)
Claude Champagne (1965)
Henry Dixon Cowell (1965)
Thomas Nassi (1964)
Alma Schindler (1964)
Paul Hindemith (1963)
Paul Constantinescu (1963)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1963)
Luís Abraham Delgadillo (1961)
Robin Milford (1959)
Antonio Savasta (1959)
Hermann Unger (1958)
Eric Coates (1957)
Lorenzo Perosi (1956)
Edgar Leslie Bainton (1956)
Peter van Anrooy (1954)
Marion Scott (1953)
Fartein Olav Valen (1952)
Selim Palmgren (1951)
Felix Petyrek (1951)
Charles Koechlin (1950)
Ernest John Moeran (1950)
Maximilian Steinberg (1946)
Alexander Siloti (1945)
Amy Marcy Beach (1944)
Wilhelm Olof Peterson-Berger (1942)
Christian Sinding (1941)
Maurice Emmanuel (1938)
Mario Pilati (1938)
Christina (Dina) Appeldoorn (1938)
Maurice Ravel (1937)
Ivor Gurney (1937)
Felix Rosenthal (1936)
Karel Navrátil (1936)
Alban Berg (1935)
Johan Halvorsen (1935)
Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (1933)
Eyvind Alnæs (1932)
Amadeo Vives (1932)
Walter Courvoisier (1931)
Vincent d’Indy (1931)
Peter Warlock (1930)
Eugène Gigout (1925)
Bernard Zweers (1924)
Xaver Scharwenka (1924)
Hans Huber (1921)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1921)
Henryk Pachulski|Geinrikh Al’bertovich Pakhul’skii (1921)
Horatio Parker (1919)
Eduard Strauss (1916)
Francesco Paoli Tosti (1916)
Bernhard Stavenhagen (1915)
Giovanni Sgambati (1914)
Francisco Tárrega (1909)
Paul (Pierre) Agricole Genin (1903)
Kornél Ábrányi (1903)
Karl Millöcker (1899)
Anton Absenger (1899)
George Frederick Bristow (1898)
Benedict Randhartinger (1893)
Niels Vilhelm Gade (1890)
Giuseppe Apolloni (1889)
Edmund Thomas Chipp (1886)
Gustav Adolph Niemann (1881)
Josephine Lang (1880)
Hermann Götz (1876)
Eugène Ketterer (1870)
Aloys Kettenus (1870)
Saverio Rafaele Mercadante (1870)
Aleksey Fedorovich Lvov (1870)
Julian (Jules) Fontana (1869)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1869)
Giovanni Pacini (1867)
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1866)
Karol Lipinski (1861)
Heinrich Marschner (1861)
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (1858)
Max Keller (1855)
Dionisio Aguado (1849)
Konradin Kreutzer (1849)
Jean-Henri-Joseph Spoelberch de Lovenjoul (1838)
Franciszek Lessel (1838)
Johann Baptist Schenk (1836)
Ludwig Schuncke (1834)
Max (Traugott Maximilian) Eberwein (1831)
Bernard Jumentier (1829)
D. Pedro IV (1826)
William Crotch (1825)
Justin Heinrich Knecht (1817)
Domenico Rampini (1816)
Gioseffo Ferdinando Bertoni (1813)
Marianne Anna Martinez (1812)
Franz Ignaz Beck (1809)
Robert (OSB) Kimmerling (1799)
Jean-Baptiste Moyne (1796)
Joseph Martin Kraus (1792)
Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart (1791)
Ludwig August Lebrun (1790)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1788)
Padre Antonio Soler (1783)
Johann Adolf Hasse (1783)
Georg Andreas Sorge (1778)
Anton Cajetan Adlgasser (1777)
Johann Friedrich Agricola (1774)
Konrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1765)
Roque Ceruti (1760)
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1758)
Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1755)
Maurice Greene (1755)
Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1749)
Johann (Jan) Dismas Zelenka (1745)
Christoph Heinrich Forster (1745)
Jean-Joseph Mouret (1738)
Antonio Caldara (1736)
Johann-Heinrich Buttstett (1727)
Benedictus Buns|Benedictus|Benedictus a Sancto Josepho|a Sancto Josepho (1716)
Henry Aldrich (1710)
Jeremiah Clarke (1707)
Johann Georg Ahle (1706)
Petronio Franceschini (1680)
D. João IV (1656)
Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1647)
Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia (1627)
Pedro de Cristo (1618)
Giulio Caccini (1618)
Adriaan Willaert (1562)
John Dunstable (1453)
Johannes Ciconia (1411)
Philippe le Chancelier|Philip the Chancellor (1236)

Music events

Premiere of the Christmass Oratorio, in Dresden Germany. (1664) → Heinrich Schütz
Premiere of the Magnificat, in Leipzig, Germany. (1723) → Johann Sebastian Bach
Premiere of Alceste, in Vienna, Austria. (1767) → Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Premiere of piano concerto in E flat major KV 482, in Vienna, Austria. (1785) → Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart
Mozart and his friends recite the Requiem, in Vienna, Austria. (1791) → Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart
Premiere of the Requiem KV 626 in d minor, Vienna, Austria. (1793) → Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart
Premiere of the violin concerto in D major op. 61, in Vienna, Austria. (1806) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of La Vestale, in Paris, Frane. (1807) → Gasparo Luigi Spontini
Premiere of Symphony no. 7 in A major op. 92, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1808) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of the Chorfantasie op. 80, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting and playing piano. (1808) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of piano concerto no. 4 in G major op. 58, with Beethoven as soloist and conducting. (1808) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in c minor, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conduting. (1808) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in F major “Pastoral”, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1808) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Die Schlachtensinfonie op. 91, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1813) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of Otello, In Naples, Italy. (1816) → Gioacchino Rossini
Premiere of Olympia, in Paris, France. (1819) → Gasparo Luigi Spontini
Premiere of La Dame Blanche, in Paris, France. (1825) → François-Adrien Boïeldieu
Premiere of the Symphony no. 6 in C major D589, in Vienna, Austria. (1828) → Franz Schubert
Premiere of De Templer un die Jüdin, in Leipzig, Germany. (1829) → Heinrich Marschner
Premiere of the Symphonie Phantastique op. 14, in Paris, France. (1830) → Hector Berlioz
Premiere of Anna Bolena, in Milan, Italy. (1830) → Gaetano Donizetti
Premiere of Norma, in Milan, Italy. (1831) → Vincenzo Bellini
Premiere of Lucrezia Borgia, in Milan, Italy. (1833) → Gaetano Donizetti
Premiere of A Life for the Czar, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1836) → Michael (Mikhael) Glinka
Premiere of the Requiem op. 5, in Paris, France. (1837) → Hector Berlioz
Premiere of Zar und Zimmermann, in Leipzig, Germany. (1837) → Gustav Albert Lortzing
Premiere of La Favorite, in Paris, France. (1840) → Gaetano Donizetti
Premiere of Overture, Scherzo and Finale op. 52, in Leipzig, Germany. (1841) → Robert Schumann
Premiere of the first version of Symphony no. 4 in d minor op. 120, in Leipzig, Germany. (1841) → Robert Schumann
Premiere of Ruslan and Ludmilla, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1842) → Michael (Mikhael) Glinka
Premiere of Der Wildschütz, in Leipzig, Germany. (1842) → Gustav Albert Lortzing
Premiere of Symphony Sérieuse, in Stockholm, Sweden. (1843) → Franz Berwald
Premiere of Das Paradies und die Peri, in Leipzig, Germany, with Clara Shumann as soloist. (1843) → Robert Schumann
Premiere of Alessandro Stradella, in Hamburg, Germany. (1844) → Friedrich von Flotow
Premiere of La Damnation de Faust, in Paris, France, with Berlioz conducting. (1846) → Hector Berlioz
Premiere of Luisa Miller, in Naples, Italy, with Verdi conducting. (1849) → Giuseppe Verdi
Premiere of L'Enfance du Christ op. 25, in Paris, France. (1854) → Hector Berlioz
Premiere of the Handel Variations in B flat major, in Hamburg, Germany, with Clara Schumann as soloist. (1861) → Johannes Brahms
Premiere of La belle Hélène, in Paris, France. (1864) → Jacques Offenbach
Premiere of Symphony no. 7 in b minor D 759 “The Unfinished”, in Vienna, Austria. (1865) → Franz Schubert
Premiere of La Jolie Fille de Perth, in Paris, France. (1867) → Georges Bizet
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in E flat major, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1868) → Alexander Porfir’yevich Borodin
Premiere of the Siegfrid Idyll, in Triebschen, Germany, with Wagner conducting. (1870) → Richard Wagner
Premiere of Aida, in Cairo, Egypt. (1871) → Giuseppe Verdi
Premiere of the string quartet in c minor op. 51/1, in Vienna, Austria. (1873) → Johannes Brahms
Premiere of the String Serenade in E major op. 22, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1876) → Antonín Dvořák
Premiere of Samson et Dalila, in Weimar, Germany. (1877) → Camille Saint-Saëns
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in d minor, in Vienna, Austria, with Bruckner conducting. (1877) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in D major op. 73, in Vienna, Austria. (1877) → Johannes Brahms
Premiere of the Cappricio Italien, in Moscow, Russia. (1880) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere of the violin concerto in D major op. 36, in Vienna, Austria. (1881) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere of Der Bettelstudent, in Vienna, Austria. (1882) → Karl Millöcker
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in F major op. 90, in Vienna, Austria. (1883) → Johannes Brahms
Premiere of Symphony no. 7 in E major, in Leipzig, Germany. (1884) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of Les Troyens (first part), in Karlsruhe, Germany. (1890) → Hector Berlioz
Premiere of Pique Dame, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1890) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere of Symphony no. 8 in c minor, in Vienna, Austria. (1892) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of The Nutcracker, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (1892) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere of Symphony no. 9 in e minor “New World Symphony”, in New York, USA. (1893) → Antonín Dvořák
Premiere of Hänsel und Gretel, in Weimar, Germany, with Rihard Strauss conducting. (1893) → Engelbert Humperdinck
Premiere of Donna Diana, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1894) → Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
Premiere of Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune, in Paris, France. (1894) → Claude Debussy
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in c minor “Auferstehung”, in Berlin, Germany. (1895) → Gustav Mahler
Premiere of the violin concerto no. 1, in Kristiania, Norway. (1898) → Christian Sinding
Premiere of Frau Luna, in Berlin, Germany. (1899) → Paul Lincke
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 “The four temperaments”, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Nielsen conducting. (1902) → Carl Nielsen
Premiere of Salome, in Dresden, Germany. (1905) → Richard Strauss
Premiere of Die Lustige Witwe, in Vienna, Austria. (1905) → Franz Lehár
Premiere of Das Christ-Elflein, in Munich, Germany. (1906) → Hans Pfitzner
Premiere of the Poème de l'Ecstase op. 54, in New York, USA. (1908) → Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin|Skriabin
Premiere of Susanna's Secret, in Munich, Germany. (1909) → Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Premiere of La Fanciulla del West, in New York, USA. (1910) → Giacomo Puccini
Premiere of piano concerto in f minor op. 114, in Leipzig, Germany. (1910) → Max Reger
Premiere of Die Königskinder, in New York, USA. (1910) → Engelbert Humperdinck
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 op. 27 “Sinfonia Espansiva”, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Nielsen conducting. (1912) → Carl Nielsen
Premiere of En Blanc et Noir for two pianos, in Paris, France, with Debussy playing. (1916) → Claude Debussy
Premiere of Il Trittico, in New York, USA. (1918) → Giacomo Puccini
Premiere of Die Toto Stadt, in Cologne, Germany. (1920) → Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Premiere of La Valse, in Paris, France. (1920) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of piano concerto no. 3 in C major op. 26, in Chicago, USA, with Prokofiev at the piano. (1921) → Sergey Prokofiev
Premiere of The Love for the Three Oranges, in Chicago, USA. (1921) → Sergey Prokofiev
Premiere of Men and Mountains, in New York, USA. (1924) → Carl Ruggles
Premiere of Pini de Roma, in Rome, Italy. (1924) → Ottorino Respighi
Premiere of the piano concerto in F major, in New York, USA, with Gershwin at the piano. (1925) → George (Jacob) Gershwin
Premiere of Symphony no. 6 “Sinfonia Semplice”, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Nielsen conducting. (1925) → Carl Nielsen
Premiere of Scherzo Symphonique “Féerique”, in Paris, France. (1925) → Jacques-François Ibert
Premiere of Wozzeck, in Berlin, Germany. (1925) → Alban Berg
Premiere of Chôro no. 10, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (1926) → Heitor Villa-Lobos
Premiere of the Glagolitic Mass, in Brno, Czech Republic. (1927) → Leoš Janáček
Premiere of the Háry János Suite, in New York, USA. (1927) → Zoltán Kodály
Premiere of Le pauvre Matelot, in Paris, France. (1927) → Darius Milhaud
Premiere of The Case Macropulos, in Brno, Czech Republic. (1927) → Leoš Janáček
Premiere of Sly, in Milan, Italy. (1927) → Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Premiere of An American in Paris, in New York, USA. (1928) → George (Jacob) Gershwin
Premiere of Symphony op. 21, in New York, USA. (1929) → Anton Webern
Premiere of Die Maßnahme op. 20, in Berlin, Germany. (1930) → Hanns Eisler
Premiere of the Psalm Symphony, in Brussels, Belgium. (1930) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of Le Paradis Perdu, in London, England. (1935) → Igor Markevitch
Premiere of Imaginary Landscape no. 1, Seattle, USA. (1939) → John Cage
Premiere of the violin concerto op. 36, in Philadelphia, USA. (1940) → Arnold Schoenberg
Premiere of the second Kammersinfonie op. 38, in New York, USA. (1940) → Arnold Schoenberg
Premiere of Canti di Prigionia, in Rome, Italy. (1941) → Luigi Dallapiccola
Premiere of Gayane, in Molotov, Russia. (1942) → Aram Ilyich Khachaturian
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in a minor, in Moscow, USA. (1942) → Aram Ilyich Khachaturian
Premiere of the Concert for Orchestra, in Boston, USA. (1944) → Béla Bartók
Premiere of Die Flut, on Radio Berlin, Germany. (1946) → Boris Blacher
Premiere of the viola concerto, in Minneapolis, USA. (1949) → Béla Bartók
Premiere of Messiaen's Turangalîlâ Symphony, in Boston, USA, with Leonard Bernstein conducting. (1949) → Leonard Bernstein
Premiere of Messiaen's Turangalîlâ Symphony, in Boston, USA, with Leonard Bernstein conducting. (1949) → Olivier Messiaen
Premiere of Amahl and the Night Visitors, on NBC radio, USA. (1951) → Gian Carlo Menotti
Premiere of Das Ende einer Welt, in Hamburg, Germany. (1953) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Trollis and Cressida, in London, England. (1954) → William Walton
Premiere of Oedipus der Tyrann, in Stuttgart, Germany. (1959) → Carl Orff
Premiere of Le Mystère de la Nativité, on Radio Geneva, Switzerland. (1959) → Frank Martin
Premiere of Camelot, in New York, USA. (1960) → Carl Loewe
Premiere of Dialogue for two pianos and large orchestra, in Cologne, Germany. (1960) → Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 “Khaddish”, in Tel Aviv, Israel, (1963) → Leonard Bernstein
Premiere of La Princesse de Clèves, in Rouen, France. (1965) → Jean Françaix
Premiere of The widow of the Butterfly, in Bonn, Germany. (1967) → Isang Yun
Premiere of Kabale und Liebe, in Vienna, Austria. (1967) → Gottfried von Einem
Premiere of Das Floß der Medusa, on NDR, a German broadcasting station. (1968) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of The Knot Garden, in London, England. (1970) → Michael Tippett
Premiere of Symphony no. 10, in Stockholm, Sweden. (1973) → Gustaf Allan Pettersson
First performance of Terve (1983) for 2 Electric Bassoons, 1 Electric Trumpet & Tamtam, in Lund, Sweden. (1983) → Peter Wallin
First performance of Contrasts (1983) for 2 players, in Lund, Sweden. (1983) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Berlin, Germany. (1984) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Chain III, in San Fransisco, USA. (1986) → Witold Lutosławski
Premiere of “Staub” for orchestra, in Saarbrücken, Germany. (1987) → Helmut Lachenmann
Premiere of Canticum Novissimi Testamenti II, in Paris, France. (1989) → Luciano Berio
Premiere of Antiphonies, in Paris, France. (1989) → Pierre Boulez
First performance of "Connections", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1991) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Cla(o)p 1", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1992) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Meditation", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1993) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Chorale", in Folding, Denmark. (1996) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Chorale 2", in Folding, Denmark. (1998) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Goodbye", in Brørup, Denmark. (1999) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Symphony No. 3, "Brands Of Tyrany", at the 5th Prague industrial festival, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1999) → Vladimír Hirsch
First performance of "Sign E", in Folding, Denmark. (2003) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Menuet for ensemble, in Théâtre de l’Oriental, Vevey, Switzerland. (2006) → Laurent Mettraux
Premiere of Dans la Nuit, in the Grand Salon at the Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France. (2006) → Robin Toan
Premiere of Second Symphony by State Philharmonia St Petersburg State Capella, Serge Inkov conductor. (2006) → David Frederick Golightly

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