Premieres today
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1784)
240 years ago
Premiere of piano concerto in D major KV 451, in Vienna, Austria, with Mozart at the piano.
Franz Joseph Haydn
(1794)
230 years ago
Premiere of Symphony in G major Hob. I:100 “Military”, in London, England, with Haydn conducting.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann
(1841)
183 years ago
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in B flat major op. 38 “Frühlingssinfonie”, in Leipzig, Germany, with Mendelssohn conducting.
Sergey Prokofiev
(1955)
69 years ago
Premiere of War and Peace (second version), in St. Petersburg, Russia.