Musicalics

The Classical Composers Database

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1881) 143 years ago

Premiere of the violin concerto in D major op. 36, in Vienna, Austria.

Gioachino Rossini (1816) 208 years ago

Premiere of Otello, In Naples, Italy.

Robert Schumann (1843) 181 years ago

Premiere of Das Paradies und die Peri, in Leipzig, Germany, with Clara Shumann as soloist.

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1909) 115 years ago

Premiere of Susanna's Secret, in Munich, Germany.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1920) 104 years ago

Premiere of Die Tote Stadt, in Cologne, Germany.

Hans Werner Henze (1953) 71 years ago

Premiere of Das Ende einer Welt, in Hamburg, Germany.

Peter Wallin (1996) 28 years ago

First performance of "Chorale", in Folding, Denmark.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) 233 years ago

Mozart and his friends recite the Requiem, in Vienna, Austria.