Premieres today
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1826)
199 years ago
Premiere of String Quartet in B flat major op. 130, in Vienna, Austria.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Franz Schubert
(1839)
186 years ago
Premiere of Schubert's Symphony no. 8 in C major D 944 “The Great”, in Leipzig, with Mendelssohn conducting.
Sergey Taneyev
(1898)
127 years ago
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in c minor, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Richard Strauss
(1904)
121 years ago
Premiere of Sinfonia Domestica op. 53, in New York, USA, with Strauss conducting.
Peter Wallin
(2002)
23 years ago
First performance of "Motions and objects, lurching around in your neighbourhood when you least expect it", in Billund, Denmark.