Premieres today
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1826)
198 anni fa
Premiere of String Quartet in B flat major op. 130, in Vienna, Austria.
Félix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert
(1839)
185 anni fa
Premiere of Schubert's Symphony no. 8 in C major D 944 “The Great”, in Leipzig, with Mendelssohn conducting.
Serguei Ivanovitch Taneiev
(1898)
126 anni fa
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in c minor, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Richard Strauss
(1904)
120 anni fa
Premiere of Sinfonia Domestica op. 53, in New York, USA, with Strauss conducting.
Peter Wallin
(2002)
22 anni fa
First performance of "Motions and objects, lurching around in your neighbourhood when you least expect it", in Billund, Denmark.