Musicalics

The Classical Composers Database

Michael (Mikhael) Glinka (1836) 189 years ago

Premiere of A Life for the Czar, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Michael (Mikhael) Glinka (1842) 183 years ago

Premiere of Ruslan and Ludmilla, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Richard Strauss (1905) 120 years ago

Premiere of Salome, in Dresden, Germany.

John Cage (1939) 86 years ago

Premiere of Imaginary Landscape no. 1, Seattle, USA.

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (1942) 83 years ago

Premiere of Gayane, in Molotov, Russia.

Leonard Bernstein (1963) 62 years ago

Premiere of Symphony no. 3 “Khaddish”, in Tel Aviv, Israel,

Isang Yun (1967) 58 years ago

Premiere of The widow of the Butterfly, in Bonn, Germany.

Hans Werner Henze (1968) 57 years ago

Premiere of Das Floß der Medusa, on NDR, a German broadcasting station.