Composer events for May

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Jonathan Belelieu (1984)
Aaron Alon (1981)
Alexandra Barkovskaya (1980)
Emily Anna Bridges (1977)
Todd Goodman (1977)
César de Oliveira (1977)
Jeremy Manley (1975)
Edward Eicker (1975)
Fred Jonny Berg (1973)
Maciej Zoltowski (1971)
Jason Eckardt (1971)
Laurent Mettraux (1970)
Alexander Vynograd (1969)
Stefanos Tsatalbassis (1967)
Lansing McLoskey (1964)
Kevin Mayo (1964)
Nino Díaz (1963)
Robson Dos Santos (1963)
André van Haren (1963)
Dieter Ammann (1962)
Jody Nagel (1960)
Christiaan de Jong (1960)
Jos Smeets (1960)
Jan Rokus van Roosendael (1960)
Adil Zamani (1960)
Mehmet Aktug (1959)
Vladimír Franz (1959)
Norbert Wissing (1959)
Shigeru Kan-no (1959)
Rui Soares da Costa (1958)
Charles Roland Berry (1957)
Aris Carastathis (1957)
Jalal Abbasov (1957)
João-Heitor Rigaud (1956)
Jan Willem van Dormolen (1956)
Marc Achille Matthys (1956)
Jane Ellen (1956)
Pascal Dusapin (1955)
Laurel Zucker (1955)
Philip Fried (1955)
Judith Weir (1954)
Jussi Vaarala (1954)
Danny Elfman (1953)
Ferenc Sebök (1952)
James V. Signorile (1952)
Paul Amrod (1951)
Guus Janssen (1951)
Otomar Kvěch (1950)
Nejat Basegmezler (1950)
Lepo Sumera (1950)
John Newell (1949)
Michael Berkeley (1948)
Tommy Fowler (1948)
Albert Alan Owen (1948)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947)
Milan Slavický (1947)
Konrad Boehmer (1941)
Roderik de Man (1941)
Armand Coeck (1941)
Heinz Holliger (1939)
Jonathan Harvey (1939)
William Bolcom (1938)
Harvey Sollberger (1938)
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936)
Philippe Boesmans (1936)
Cornelius Cardew (1936)
Derek Strahan (1935)
Dick-Jan Zwart (1935)
Nigel Butterley (1935)
Christiaan Verhoog (1934)
Georg Kröll (1934)
Antón García Abril (1933)
Pauline Oliveros (1932)
Donald Martino (1931)
Hans-Martin Linde (1930)
Hans Kox (1930)
Clotilde Rosa (1930)
Wolfgang Bottenberg (1930)
Will Eisma (1929)
Thea Musgrave (1928)
David Barlow (1927)
Maria de Lourdes Martins (1926)
Clermont Pépin (1926)
Willem Hendrik Zwart (1925)
Aldo Clementi (1925)
Pietro Allori (1925)
Anthony Francis Dominic Milner (1925)
Joly Braga Santos (1924)
Jiří Válek (1923)
György Sándor Ligeti (1923)
Peter Mennin (1923)
Iannis Xenakis (1922)
Mircea Basarab (1921)
Lou Harrison (1917)
Milton Babbitt (1916)
George Perle (1915)
Jan Hanuš (1915)
Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913)
Lydia Auster (1912)
Jean Françaix (1912)
Hans Vogt (1911)
Heinrich Konietzny (1910)
Lars Erik Larsson (1908)
Wouter Paap (1908)
Boris Berlin|Lawrence London (1907)
Yoritsune Matsudaira (1907)
Eric(h) Zeisl (1905)
Inglis Gundry (1905)
Alan Rawsthorne (1905)
Jerzy Fitelberg (1903)
Lennox Berkeley (1903)
Edmund Rubbra (1901)
Henri Pierre Sauguet (1901)
Werner Egk (1901)
Marcel Poot (1901)
Leo Smit (Dutch) (1900)
Jón Leifs (1899)
Ernst Bacon (1898)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897)
Marius Monnikendam (1896)
William Grant Still (1895)
Leo Sowerby (1895)
Eugene Goossens (1893)
Paul Amadeus Pisk (1893)
Felix Petyrek (1892)
Arthur Vincent Lourié (1892)
Claude Champagne (1891)
Frederick Jacobi (1891)
Sverre Jordan (1889)
Louis Durey (1888)
Anatoly Alexandrov (1888)
Irving Berlin (1888)
Max Steiner (1888)
Marcel Dupré (1886)
Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885)
Otto Klemperer (1885)
Arthur Meulemans (1884)
George Dyson (1883)
Ludovic Lamothe (1882)
Joseph Marx (1882)
Jean Cras (1879)
Eastwood Lane (1879)
Italo Montemezzi (1875)
Fred Jewell (1875)
José de la Cruz Mena (1874)
Rudolf Tobias (1873)
Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873)
Hugo Alfvén (1872)
Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (1869)
Hans Pfitzner (1869)
Wladimir Ivanovich Rébikoff|Rebikov (1866)
Erik Satie (1866)
Ottokar Eugen Novacek (1866)
Auguste De Boeck (1865)
Louis Glass (1864)
Maurice Emmanuel (1861)
Isaac Albéniz (1860)
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860)
Georges Hüe (1858)
Frederick Cliffe (1857)
Anatolii Lyadov (1855)
Julius Röntgen (1855)
Bernard Zweers (1854)
Johannes Haarklou (1847)
Gabriel Fauré (1845)
Emile Pessard (1843)
Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843)
Alphons Czibulka (1842)
Arthur Sullivan (1842)
Jules Massenet (1842)
Giovanni Sgambati (1841)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
Johannes Brahms (1833)
Carl Goldmark (1830)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829)
Joseph Joachim Raff (1822)
Stanislav Moniuszko (1819)
Adolf von Henselt (1814)
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814)
Richard Wagner (1813)
Stephen István Heller (1813)
Michael William Balfe (1808)
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805)
Jeanne-Louise Farrenc-Dumont (1804)
Jacques-François Halévy (1799)
Aleksey Fedorovich Lvov (1798)
Ignaz Moscheles (1794)
Jan Václav (Hugo) Voříšek (1791)
Louis-François Dauprat (1781)
Nicolas Isouard (1775)
Thomas Linley (the younger) (1756)
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755)
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754)
Vicente Martín y Soler (1754)
Ludwig August Lebrun (1752)
Jean-Frédéric (Johan-Fredreric) Edelmann (1749)
Francesco Azopardi (1748)
Carl Stamitz (1745)
Johann Baptist Krumpholz (1745)
Marianne Anna Martinez (1744)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740)
Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739)
Florian Leopold Gaßmann (1729)
Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708)
Karl Heinrich Graun (1704)
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697)
Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1680)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660)
Marin Marais (1656)
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616)
William Lawes (1602)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562)
Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377)

Dying days

Music events

Premiere of New Work for two piano and two percussion by the YARN/WIRE ensemble (2007) → John Arrigo-Nelson
Premiere of viola concerto, in Budapest, Hungary. (2007) → Aharon Harlap
Premiere of the opera “Therese Raquin”, in Jerusalem, Israel. (2005) → Aharon Harlap
Premiere of the opera " Decamero lala" for Orchestra and children choir, in the "Palais des Beaux-Arts", Brussels, Belgium, conducted by the composer. (Songs with piano version edited by lantromusic, including a book with pictures for children). (2005) → Vincent Ghadimi
First performance of "The end of Brian´s Brain" (Music Manifesto 2002, Part 23), in Billund, Denmark. (2005) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Fanfare for 3", in Brørup, Denmark. (2004) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Peace Song", in Billund, Denmark. (2002) → Peter Wallin
First performances of "Kom med mig..." & "Allegro con Brio, Brie e Brian", in Brørup, Denmark. (2000) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Struthio Camelus Altus", in Brørup, Denmark. (1998) → Peter Wallin
First performance of "Sekel March 94" (Wind Band version), in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1994) → Peter Wallin
First performances of "Duel", "Hang over and out!!!" and "-Apping Music Suite", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1992) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Opus 1990, in Saarbrücken, Germany. (1991) → Mauricio Kagel
Premiere of the violin concerto, in Evian, France. (1990) → Alfred Schnittke
Premiere of Berliner Messe, in Berlin, Germany. (1990) → Arvo Pärt
Premiere of Ungemahltes Bild, in Stockholm, Sweden. (1990) → Wolfgang Rihm
First performance of the 1989 version of "Tre Stämningar", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (1990) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Konzert, in Vienna, Austria. (1990) → Jean Françaix
Premiere of Klagegesang, in Pittsburgh, USA. (1990) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Premiere of Opus Sine Nomine, in Vienna, Austria. (1990) → Ernst Krenek
Premiere of 63: Dream Palace, in Munich, Germany. (1990) → Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Premiere of Das Verratene Meer, in Berlin, Germany. (1990) → Hans Werner Henze
First performance of "Don´t ever do that again!!!", in Helsingborg, Sweden. (1989) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Sinfonia Tragica, in Munich, Germany. (1989) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Premiere of What Where, Frankfurt, Germany. (1989) → Heinz Holliger
Premiere of Dr. Faustus, in Milan, Italy. (1989) → Giacomo Manzoni
Premiere of Wachsfigurenkabinett, in Munich, Germany. (1988) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Vienna, Austria. (1988) → Gottfried von Einem
Premiere of Montag aus LICHT, in Milan, Italy. (1988) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
Premiere of Coptic Light, in New York, USA. (1986) → Morton Feldman
Premiere of The Mask of Orpheus, in London, England. (1986) → Harrison Birtwistle
First performance of "Space", in Lund, Sweden. (1985) → Peter Wallin
Premiere of Sinfonia op. 63 “Anton Webern”, in Napels, Italy. (1983) → Franco Donatoni
Premiere of Sinfonia op. 63 “Anton Webern”, in Napels, Italy. (1983) → Anton Webern
Premiere of Cats, in New York, USA. (1982) → Andrew Lloyd Webber
Premiere of Aus Deutschland, in Berlin, Germany. (1981) → Mauricio Kagel
Premiere of Jesu Hochzeit, in Munich, Germany. (1980) → Gottfried von Einem
Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in New York, USA. (1980) → Krzysztof Penderecki
Premiere of Neither, in Rome, Italy. (1977) → Morton Feldman
Premiere of Der Besuch der Alten Dame, in Vienna, Austria. (1971) → Gottfried von Einem
Premiere of Owen Wingrave, on BBC, England. (1971) → Benjamin Britten
Premiere of Die Brücke von San Luis Rey, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (1966) → Hermann Reutter
Premiere of Nouvelles Aventures, in Hamburg, Germany. (1966) → György Sándor Ligeti
Premiere of War Requiem, in Coventry, England, with Britten conducting. (1962) → Benjamin Britten
Premiere of King Priam, in Coventry, England. (1962) → Michael Tippett
Premiere of In Seinem Garten Liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (1962) → Wolfgang Fortner
Premiere of Threnis “To the Victims of Hiroshima”, in Warsaw, Poland. (1961) → Krzysztof Penderecki
Premiere of Il Mercante di Venezia, in Milan, Italy. (1961) → Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
Premiere of Elegie für Junge Liebende, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (1961) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Der Prinz von Homburg, in Hamburg, Germany. (1960) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Theater Piece, in New York, USA. (1960) → John Cage
Premiere of Aniara, in Stockholm, Sweden. (1959) → Karl-Birger Blomdahl
Premiere of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, in New York, USA. (1958) → John Cage
Premiere of Der Revisor, in Schwetzingen, Germany, with Egk conducting. (1957) → Werner Egk
Premiere of Gesang der Jünglinge, in Cologne, Germany. (1956) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
Premiere of Incontri, in Darmstadt, Germany. (1955) → Luigi Nono
Premiere of Kontrapunkte, in Cologne, Germany. (1953) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
Premiere of Die Chinesische Nachtigall, in Munich, Germany. (1953) → Werner Egk
Premiere of Peter and the Wolf op. 67, in Moscow, Russia, with Prokofiev conducting. (1952) → Sergey Prokofiev
Premiere of Water Music, in New York, USA. (1952) → John Cage
Premiere of Vier Letzte Lieder, in London, England. (1950) → Richard Strauss
Premiere of Il Prigioniero, in Florence, Italy. (1950) → Luigi Dallapiccola
Premiere of Feuerwerk, in Munich, Germany. (1950) → Willy Burkhard
Premiere of Das Wundertheater, in Heidelberg, Germany. (1949) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, in Paris, France. (1948) → Jean Françaix
Premiere of Petite Symphony Concertante, in Zürich, Switzerland. (1946) → Frank Martin
Premiere of Annie Get Your Gun, in New York, USA. (1946) → Irving Berlin
Premiere of Central Park in the Dark, in New York, USA. (1946) → Charles Ives
Premiere of The Serpent Heart, in New York, USA. (1946) → Samuel Barber
Premiere of The Medium, in New York, USA. (1946) → Gian Carlo Menotti
Premiere of In Terra Pax, on Radio Genf, Switzerland. (1945) → Frank Martin
Premiere of Symphony for Strings “Janiana”, in Paris, France. (1942) → Florent Schmitt
Premiere of Volo di Notte, in Florence, Italy. (1940) → Luigi Dallapiccola
Premiere of Alexander Nevski, in Moscow, Russia. (1939) → Sergey Prokofiev
Premiere of The Incredible Flutist, in Boston, USA. (1938) → Walter Piston
Premiere of Mathis der Maler, in Zürich, Switzerland. (1938) → Paul Hindemith
Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in New York, USA. (1938) → William Schuman
Premiere of Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, in Basel, Switzerland. (1938) → Arthur Honegger
Premiere of Dumbarton Oaks, Concerto in E flat major, in Washington D.C., USA. (1938) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of Mikrokosmos (incomplete), in Budapest, Hungary, with Bartók at the piano. (1937) → Béla Bartók
Premiere of Die Zaubergeige, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (1935) → Werner Egk
Premiere of Harnasie, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1935) → Karol Szymanowski
Premiere of Bacchus et Ariana, in Paris, France. (1931) → Albert Roussel
Premiere of Dei Mutter, in Munich, Germany. (1931) → Aloís Hába
Premiere of Transatlantic, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (1930) → George Antheil
Premiere of Christophe Colomb (Christoph Columbus), in Berlin, Germany. (1930) → Darius Milhaud
Premiere of Concert Champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra, in Paris, France. (1929) → Francis Poulenc
Premiere of Fra Gherardo, in Milan, Italy. (1928) → Ildebrando Pizzetti
Premiere of Oedipus Rex, in Paris, France. (1927) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of Les Malheurs d'Orphée, in Brussels, Belgium. (1926) → Darius Milhaud
Premiere of Doktor Faust, in Dresden, Germany. (1925) → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
Premiere of Lachian Dances, in Brno, Czech Republic. (1925) → Leoš Janáček
Premiere of Pacific 231, in Paris, France. (1924) → Arthur Honegger
Premiere of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in Ravel's orchestration, in Paris, France. (1923) → Modest Moussorgsky
Premiere of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in Ravel's orchestration, in Paris, France. (1923) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of La Piège de Méduse, in Paris, France. (1921) → Erik Satie
Premiere of Pulcinella, in Paris, France. (1920) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Bucarest, Romania. (1919) → George Enescu
Premiere of Duke Bluebeard's Castle op. 11, in Budapest, Hungary. (1918) → Béla Bartók
Premiere of Parade, in Paris, France. (1917) → Erik Satie
Premiere of The Wooden Prince op. 13, in Budapest, Hungary. (1917) → Béla Bartók
Premiere of Arlecchino, in Zürich, Switzerland. (1917) → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
Premiere of Turandot, in Zürich, Switzerland. (1917) → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
Premiere of Schelomo, hebraic rhapsody for cello and orchestra, in New York, USA. (1917) → Ernest Bloch
Premiere of Jeux, in Paris, France. (1915) → Claude Debussy
Premiere of Le Rossignol, in Paris, France. (1914) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, in Paris, France. (1913) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of L'Heure Espagnol, in Paris, France. (1911) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, in Paris, France. (1911) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, in Paris, France. (1907) → Paul Dukas
Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in a minor, in Essen, Germany, with Mahler conducting. (1906) → Gustav Mahler
Premiere of Sea Drift, in Essen, Germany. (1906) → Frederick Delius
Premiere of Alborada del Gracioso, in Paris, France. (1905) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of L'Apprenti Sorcier, in Paris, France. (1897) → Paul Dukas
Premiere of La Bohème, in Venice, Italy. (1897) → Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Premiere of Guntram, in Weimar, Germany, with Strauss conducting. (1894) → Richard Strauss
Premiere of Pagliacci, in Milan, Italy. (1892) → Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Premiere of Cavalleria Rusticana, in Rome, Italy. (1890) → Pietro Mascagni
Premiere of Le Roi d'Ys, in Paris, France. (1888) → Edouard Lalo
Premiere of Le Roi Malgré Lui, in Paris, France. (1887) → Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in c minor op. 78 “Organ symphony”, in London, England, with Saint-Saëns conducting. (1886) → Camille Saint-Saëns
Premiere of Variations Symphoniques for piano and orchestra, in Paris, France. (1886) → César Auguste Franck
Premiere of the Te Deum, in Vienna, Austria, with Bruckner conducting. (1885) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of Le Roi l'a Dit, in Paris, France. (1873) → Léo Delibes
Premiere of Coppélia, in Paris, France. (1870) → Léo Delibes
Premiere of Dalibor, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Smetana conducting. (1868) → Bedrich Smetana
Premiere of piano concert no. 2 in g minor op. 22, in Paris, France. (1868) → Camille Saint-Saëns
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in c minor, in Linz, Austria, with Bruckner conducting. (1868) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of The Bartered Bride, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1866) → Bedrich Smetana
Premiere of Der Waffenschmied, in Vienna, Austria. (1846) → Gustav Albert Lortzing
Premiere of Hans Heiling, in Berlin, Germany. (1833) → Heinrich Marschner
Premiere of Symphony no. 4 in A major op. 90 “The Italian”, London, England, with Mendelssohn conducting. (1833) → Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Premiere of L'Elisir d'Amore, in Milan, Italy. (1832) → Gaetano Donizetti
Premiere of Symphony no. 9 in d minor op. 125, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1824) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of La Gazza Ladra, in Milan, Italy. (1817) → Gioacchino Rossini
Premiere of Fidelio (final version), in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting. (1814) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of L'Italiana in Algeri, in Venice, Italy. (1813) → Gioacchino Rossini
Premiere of violin sonata in A major op. 47 “Kreutzer Sonata”, in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven at the piano. (1803) → Ludwig van Beethoven
Premiere of symphony in D major Hob. I:104, in London, England. (1795) → Franz Joseph Haydn
Premiere of Le Nozze di Figaro, in Vienna, Austria, with Mozart conducting. (1786) → Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart
Premiere of Iphigénie en Tauride, in Paris, France. (1779) → Christoph Willibald von Gluck

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