| Year |
World Events |
Significant Musical Events |
Composer Births & Deaths |
| 1850 |
· Zachary Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore becomes 13th US President
· Taiping Rebellion (China)
· Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese
· Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter |
· Schumann: Symphony #3 (Rhenish)
· Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor
· Wagner: Lohengrin
· Liszt: Liebestraum
· Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto #4 in D Minor
· Jenny Lind tours America |
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| 1851 |
· Louis Napoleon dethroned in coup d'etat
· Herman Melville: Moby Dick
· First appearance of 'New York Times'
· First double-decker bus |
· Schumann: Violin Sonatas in A Minor/D Minor
· Verdi: Rigoletto
· Liszt: Transcendental Etudes
· Gounod: Sappho |
· Vincent D'Indy born
· Albert Lortzing died |
| 1852 |
· Louis Napoleon reclaims throne and declares himself Emperor Napoleon III
· Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
· Founding of Wells Fargo |
First performance of Schumann's 'Manfred' |
Charles Villiers Stanford born |
| 1853 |
· Franklin Pierce becomes 14th US President
· Production of small arms (pistols) streamlined by Samuel Colt |
· Verdi: La Traviata
· Verdi: Il Trovatore
· Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2
· Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor
· Founding of Steinway Piano Firm |
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| 1854 |
· 'Bleeding Kansas' War
· Formation of Republican Party in US
· Thoreau: Walden
· Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade
· First appearance of Paris paper 'Le Figaro' |
· Louis M. Gottschalk: The Last Hope
· Brahms: Piano Trio #1 in B
· Liszt: Years of Pilgrimage: Switzerland
· Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ
· Schumann attempts suicide, is committed |
Engelbert Humperdinck born |
| 1855 |
· End of Taiping Rebellion (China)
· Longfellow: Song of Hiawatha
· Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
· Cholera epidemic in London forces sewer modernization |
· Verdi: Sicilian Vespers
· Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 in E Flat
· Bizet: Symphony in C |
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| 1856 |
· Britain and China are at war
· Slaveowners massacred in Kansas |
Maillart: Les Dragons de Villars |
· Christian Sinding born
· Robert Schumann died |
| 1857 |
· James Buchanan takes office as 15th US President
· Britain at war with India and China
· Garibaldi leads Italian unification movement
· Pasteur works with fermentation |
· Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
· Liszt: A Faust Symphony
· Hans von Bulow marries Cosima Liszt |
· Edward Elgar born
· Mikhail Glinka died |
| 1858 |
· Prussia's King Frederick William IV declared insane
· War ends between Britain and China
· Ottawa becomes Canadian capitol |
· Cornelius: The Barber of Bagdad
· Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld
· First public performance of New York Symphony |
· Ruggiero Leoncavallo born
· Giacomo Puccini born |
| 1859 |
· Short war between France and Austria
· Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
· Titusville, PA is site of first oil well drilled in America
· Digging commences on Suez Canal
· Darwin: Origin of Species |
· Gounod: Faust
· Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
· Daniel Emmett writes the song 'Dixie' |
Louis Spohr died |
| 1860 |
· Italian unification patriot Garibaldi helps Victor Emmanuel II become Italy's king
· Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president
· South Carolina secedes
· San Francisco, CA is site of first professional baseball game in the United States |
· Brahms: String Sextet #1 in B Flat
· Franz von Suppe: Das Pensionat |
· Gustav Mahler born
· Ignace Jan Paderewski born
· Hugo Wolf born |
| 1861 |
· Formation of Confederate States
· American Civil War begins
· Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
· Discovery of Archaeopteryx skeleton |
· Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Handel
· Brahms: Piano Quartet #1 in G Minor
· Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D Minor
· Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1
· Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto #5 in A Minor
· Wagner's Tannhauser is a scandal in Paris |
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| 1862 |
· American Civil War continues
· Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation to be effective 1/1/1863, freeing all slaves
· Bismarck is Prussian Prime Minister
· Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
· Invention of Gatling Gun |
· Verdi: La Forza del Destino
· Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict
· Ludwig Koechel's catalog of Mozart's works is published |
· Claude Debussy born
· Frederick Delius born
· Edward German born |
| 1863 |
· American Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg
· Mexico City seized by French Army, Austria's Maximilian declared Emperor
· Manet: Dejeuner sur L'herbe |
· Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
· Rossini: Petite Mass
· Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
· Berlioz: Les Troyens |
Pietro Mascagni born |
| 1864 |
· American Civil War: Grant named Commander-in-Chief of Union armies, Sherman's armies burn Atlanta
· Lincoln re-elected US President
· Tolstoy: War and Peace
· Pasteur invents process for pasteurization |
· Louis M. Gottschalk: The Dying Poet
· Gounod: Mireille
· Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
· Offenbach: La Belle Helene
· Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor
· Bruckner: Symphony No. '0' |
· Richard Strauss born
· Giacomo Meyerbeer died
· Stephen Foster died |
| 1865 |
· American Civil War: Lee surrenders to Grant, CSA President Jefferson Davis captured and imprisoned
· Lincoln assassinated, Andrew Johnson becomes 17th US President
· Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
· Salvation Army organized
· Ku Klux Klan founded |
· Brahms: Horn Trio in B Flat
· Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
· Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
· Franz von Suppe: The Beautiful Galatea
· First performance of Schubert's Symphony #8 (Unfinished) |
· Paul Dukas born
· Alexander Glazunov born
· Jean Sibelius born |
| 1866 |
· Italy and Austria are at war
· Invention of dynamite
· Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
· Claude Monet: Camille |
· Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne
· Franz von Suppe: Light Cavalry
· John Knowles Paine: Mass in D
· Ambroise Thomas: Mignon
· Smetana: The Bartered Bride |
Ferruccio Busoni born |
| 1867 |
· Napoleon III withdraws French troops from Mexico City, Emperor Maximilian executed
· US Government purchases Alaska
· Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt
· Karl Marx: Das Kapital |
· Johann Strauss, Jr.: The Blue Danube Waltz
· Gounod: Romeo & Juliet
· Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
· Verdi: Don Carlos
· Bizet: Fair Maid of Perth
· Offenbach: Grand Duchess of Gerolstein |
Arturo Toscanini born |
| 1868 |
· Meiji dynasty restored in Japan after abolition of shogunate
· US President Johnson impeached but acquitted in Senate trial
· Louisa May Alcott: Little Women |
· Johann Strauss, Jr.: Tales from the Vienna Woods
· Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2 in G Minor
· Brahms: Lullaby
· Brahms: A German Requiem
· Wagner: Die Meistersinger
· Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
· Arriago Boito: Mefistofole
· Bruch: Violin Concerto #1 in G Minor
· Smetana: Dalibor
· Tchaikovsky: Symphony #1 (Winter Dreams) |
· Granville Bantock born
· Gioacchino Rossini died |
| 1869 |
· Former Union General Ulysses S. Grant sworn in as 18th US President
· Suez Canal opened
· Mark Twain: Innocents Abroad
· Rutgers and Princeton hold first college football game |
· Johann Strauss, Jr.: Wine, Women and Song
· Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, Set 1
· Wagner: Das Rheingold
· Balakirev: Islamey |
· Hector Berlioz died
· Hans Pfitzner born
· Siegfried Wagner born |
| 1870 |
· Franco-Prussian War results in defeat of Napoleon III and ensuing revolution in Paris
· Rome becomes capitol of Italy
· Deaths of Charles Dickens, Robert E. Lee
· First Vatican Council: Pope is infallible
· Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
· Wieniawski: Violin Concerto #2 in D Minor
· Wagner: Die Walkure
· Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
· Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
· Delibes: Coppelia
· Wagner marries Cosima Liszt von Bulow after fathering several children by her |
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| 1871 |
· Italy deeds Vatican City to Pope in perpetuity
· Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man
· Invention of pneumatic rock drill
· Barnum's circus 'The Greatest Show on Earth' opens in Brooklyn
· Much of Chicago destroyed by fire |
· Verdi: Aida
· Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
· Bizet: Jeux d'enfants
· Saint-Saens: Omphale's Spinning Wheel
· Opening of Royal Albert Hall (London) |
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| 1872 |
· Spanish Civil War
· Germany expels Jesuits
· Opening of Brooklyn Bridge
· Painting of Whistler's Mother
· Verne: Around the World in 80 Days |
· Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
· Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar Incidental Music
· Bizet: L'Arlesienne Incidental Music
· Lecocq: Mademoiselle Angot
|
Alexander Scriabin born |
| 1873 |
· Spain adopts Republican government
· Death of Napoleon III
· Vienna and New York experience panic in financial markets
· Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
· Development of first color photographs |
· Johann Strauss, Jr.: Vienna Blood Waltz
· Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto #1 in A Minor
· Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
· Verdi: String Quartet in E Minor
· Bruckner: Symphony #2
· Rimsky-Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible |
· Enrico Caruso born
· Max Reger born
· Sergei Rachmaninov born |
| 1874 |
· Benjamin Disraeli is British Prime Minister
· Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd
· Paris holds first exhibition of Impressionist paintings
· Philadelphia is site of first American zoo |
· Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast
· Johann Strauss, Jr.: Die Fledermaus
· Bruckner: Symphony #4 (Romantic)
· Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
· Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
· Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, Set 2
· Verdi: Requiem
· Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov |
· Gustav Holst born
· Arnold Schoenberg born
· Peter Cornelius died |
| 1875 |
· Cuban Rebellion
· Christian Science movement begins after Mary Baker Eddy publishes 'Science & Health'
· Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
· Death of Hans Christian Anderson
· Claude Monet: Boating at Argenteuil |
· Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #4 in C Minor
· Dvorak: Serenade for Strings
· Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 in B Flat Minor
· Grieg: Peer Gynt Incidental Music
· Bizet: Carmen
· Faure: Violin Sonata #1 in A
· Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury |
· Samuel Coleridge-Taylor born
· Maurice Ravel born
· Georges Bizet died |
| 1876 |
· Two Turkish Sultans are deposed within months: Turkey at war with Serbia
· US Presidential Race results in disputed election: Tilden (184 electoral votes), Hayes (165), 20 electoral votes contested
· Bell invents the telephone
· Renoir: Le Moulin de la Galette |
· Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours/La Gioconda
· Bruckner: Symphony #5 in B Flat
· Brahms: Symphony #1 in C Minor
· Wagner: Siegfried
· Wagner: Gotterdammerung
· Tchaikovsky: Marche Slav
· Borodin: Symphony #2 in B Minor
· Delibes: Sylvia
· Smetana: String Quartet #1 (From My Life)
· 1st performance of Wagner's Ring Cycle (Bayreuth) |
· Pablo Casals born
· Manuel de Falla born
· Bruno Walter born
· Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari born |
| 1877 |
· Electoral College selects Rutherford B. Hayes as 19th US President
· Germany passes law to protect patent holders
· Invention of phonograph by Edison
· Appearance of first public telephones
· Rodin: The Age of Bronze |
· Goldmark: Violin Concerto in A Minor
· Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony
· Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor
· Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
· Dvorak: Romance in F Minor, Op. 11
· Dvorak: Symphonic Variations
· Dvorak: Stabat Mater
· Saint-Saens: Samson and Delilah
· Brahms: Symphony #2 in D
· Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
· Liszt: Years of Pilgrimage, Set 3
· Faure: Requiem
· Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini |
Ernst von Dohnanyi born |
| 1878 |
· After Turkey signs peace pact with Russia, they go to war with Greece
· German engineer Karl Benz invents motorized tricycle capable of 8 m.p.h.
· Invention of the microphone
· Hardy: The Return of the Native |
· Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
· Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore
· Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
· Brahms: Violin Concerto in D
· Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4 in F Minor
· Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
· First edition of Grove's Dictionary |
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| 1879 |
· British-Zulu War
· First electric tram
· Discovery of saccharin
· Ibsen: A Doll's House |
· Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance
· Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
· Borodin: String Quartet #1 in A
· Franck: The Beatitudes
· Smetana: Ma Vlast/Die Moldau
· Faure: Piano Quartet #1 in C Minor
· Suppe: Boccaccio |
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| 1880 |
· Tahiti annexed by France
· Chile wars against Peru and Bolivia
· First appearance of canned meats and fruits in grocery stores
· Edison perfects practical electrical light |
· Widor: Organ Symphony #5
· Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A Minor
· Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
· Brahms: Tragic Overture
· Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
· Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
· Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
· Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
· Faure: Elegy for Cello and Piano
· Bruch: Scottish Fantasy |
· Ernest Bloch born
· Jacques Offenbach died |
| 1881 |
· James Garfield sworn in as 20th US President, assassinated; succeeded by Chester Arthur
· British Navy & Army abolish flogging
· Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
· London's Savoy Theatre built |
· Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3 in B Minor
· Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
· Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #2
· Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies
· Borodin: String Quartet #2 in D
· Bruch: Kol Nidrei |
· Bela Bartok born
· Modest Mussorgsky died |
| 1882 |
· Cairo occupied by British troops
· US bans Chinese immigration for 10 years
· Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
· John L. Sullivan becomes boxing champion |
· Rimsky-Korsakov: Snow Maiden
· Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B Flat
· Wagner: Parsifal
· Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz
· Franck: The Accursed Huntsman
· Claude Debussy: Le Printemps
· Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe
· Founding of Berlin Symphony Orchestra |
Igor Stravinsky born |
| 1883 |
· Completion of Northern Pacific Railroad
· Chicago is site of first skyscraper (10 stories)
· First run of Orient Express
· Buffalo Bill Cody's 'Wild West Show' becomes popular throughout US |
· Bruckner: Symphony #7 in E
· Brahms: Symphony #3 in F
· Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #3
· Grieg: Cello Sonata in A Minor
· Chabrier: Espana
· Delibes: Lakme
· Smetana: String Quartet #2 in D Minor
· Opening of Metropolitan Opera House (NY) |
· Richard Wagner died
· Friedrich von Flotow died
· Anton von Webern died |
| 1884 |
· London is site of first underground railroad
· Discovery of tetanus bacteria
· Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn |
· Bruckner: Te Deum
· Grieg: Holberg Suite
· Massenet: Manon
· Stanford: Savonarola |
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| 1885 |
· Belgium's King Leopold II claims the Congo
· Grover Cleveland is 22nd US President
· Philadelphian John Fox introduces the Scottish game of Golf to the U.S.
· Death of Ulysses S. Grant
· Pasteur invents rabies vaccine
· Uniqueness of fingerprints proven
· George Eastman invents coated paper for photographs |
· Reinecke: Flute Sonata in E Minor (Undine)
· Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
· Johann Strauss, Jr.: The Gypsy Baron
· Gounod: Petite Symphony
· Saint-Saens: Violin Sonata #1 in D Minor
· Dvorak: Symphony #7 in D Minor
· Brahms: Symphony #4 in E Minor
· Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
· Franck: Symphonic Variations |
Alban Berg born |
| 1886 |
· English Prime Minister Gladstone introduces Irish Home Rule bill
· France banishes Napoleon's descendants
· Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, is dedicated in New York Harbor
· Rodin: The Kiss |
· D'Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
· Albeniz: Suite Espanola
· Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 in C Minor (Organ)
· Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
· Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
· Franck: Violin Sonata in A
· Faure: Piano Quartet #2 in G Minor
· Invention of the celeste |
· Wilhelm Furtwangler born
· Franz Liszt died |
| 1887 |
· Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
· Esperanto language developed
· Invention of celluloid film
· First printing of a Sherlock Holmes story, 'A Study in Scarlet' by Arthur Conan Doyle
· Van Gogh: Moulin de la Galette |
· Delius: Florida Suite
· Wolf: Italian Serenade
· Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
· Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C Minor
· Saint-Saens: Havanaise
· Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A
· Brahms: Double Concerto
· Verdi: Otello
· Grieg: Norwegian Dances
· Borodin: Prince Igor/Polovtsian Dances
· Chabrier: Le Roi Malgre Lui
· Faure: Pavane
· John Stainer: The Crucifixion
· Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore
· Bruckner: Te Deum |
Alexander Borodin died |
| 1888 |
· Six prostitutes murdered by Jack the Ripper (London) who is then never heard from again
· Belgium is site of first beauty pageant
· Tesla constructs electric motor
· Eastman develops Kodak box camera
· Invention of pneumatic tire
· Van Gogh: The Yellow Chair
· Toulouse-Lautrec: Place Clichy |
· Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
· Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
· Richard Strauss: Don Juan
· Brahms: Violin Sonata #3 in D Minor
· Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5 in E Minor
· Mahler: Symphony #1 (Titan)
· Franck: Symphony in D Minor
· Erik Satie: Three Gymnopedies
· Gilbert & Sullivan: Yeoman of the Guard
· Mahler becomes Budapest Opera Music Director |
Irving Berlin born |
| 1889 |
· Benjamin Harrison is 23rd US President
· Discovery of insulin creation by pancreas
· Eiffel Tower designed and built (Paris)
· Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee
· Van Gogh: Landscape with Cypress Tree |
· Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
· Dvorak: Symphony #8 in G
· Scriabin: Etude in C Sharp Minor
· John Philip Sousa: Washington Post March
· Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers |
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| 1890 |
· German Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Prime Minister Bismarck
· Worldwide influenza pandemics
· First use of rubber gloves in surgery (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore)
· Suicide of Vincent Van Gogh |
· Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
· Debussy: Clair de Lune/Suite Bergamasque
· Dvorak: Requiem
· Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
· Erik Satie: Gnossiennes
· Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame |
Cesar Franck died |
| 1891 |
· Wireless telegraphy begins
· Invention of zipper for clothing
· More than 10,000 die in Japanese earthquake
· Famine in Russia |
· Dvorak: Carnival Overture
· Dvorak: Piano Trio in E Minor (Dumky)
· Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor
· Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #1 |
· Arthur Bliss born
· Sergei Prokofiev born
· Leo Delibes died |
| 1892 |
· Patenting of diesel engine
· First automatic telephone switchboard
· Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan
· Death of Walt Whitman
· Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge |
· Suk: Serenade for Strings
· Sibelius: En Saga
· Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
· Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
· Elgar: Serenade in E Minor
· Bruckner: Symphony #8
· Dvorak takes Director post at New York National Music Conservatory |
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| 1893 |
· Henry Ford and Karl Benz separately build four-wheel vehicles
· Republic of Hawaii annexed by US
· Grover Cleveland becomes first man to win two non-successive US Presidential terms |
· Rachmaninov: Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2
· Puccini: Manon Lescaut
· Sibelius: Karelia Suite
· Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor
· Dvorak: String Quartet (American)
· Dvorak: Symphony #9 (New World)>
· Verdi: Falstaff
· Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (Pathetique)
· Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel |
· Charles Gounod died
· Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky died |
| 1894 |
Japan and Korea at war with China
· Treason trial of French Captain Dreyfus
· First film camera invented by Lumiere
· Kipling: The Jungle Book
· First use of flat disc for phonograph recording |
· Arensky: Piano Trio in D Minor
· Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
· Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
· Mahler: Symphony #2 (Resurrection)
· Massenet: Thais
· Faure: Le Bonne Chanson
· Sibelius: Finlandia
· Richard Strauss: Guntram |
Anton Rubinstein died |
| 1895 |
· Discovery of x-rays by Rontgen
· Radio telegraphy invented by Marconi
· Oscar Wilde sues Marquis of Queensbury for libel
· H.G. Wells: The Time Machine
· First film shown in public (Paris) |
· Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
· Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor
· First Promenade Concerts (London)
· Wilhelm Kienzl: Der Evangelimann |
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| 1896 |
· China and Russia sign Manchuria pact
· Discovery of helium
· Niagara Falls power plant opens
· Klondike Gold Rush
· Modern Olympics held in Athens, Greece
· Nobel Prizes established |
· Bruckner: Symphony #9 in D Minor
· Puccini: La Boheme
· Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
· Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor
· Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chenier
· Amy Beach: Gaelic Symphony
· Chausson: Poeme
· MacDowell: Indian Suite
· Wolf: Der Corregidor
· Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grande Duke |
· Clara Wieck Schumann died
· Anton Bruckner died |
| 1897 |
· William McKinley becomes 25th US President
· Greece and Turkey at war
· Brother of imprisoned Alfred Dreyfus discovers forged trial evidence
· Famine in India
· Discovery of the electron |
· Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
· Grieg: Symphonic Dances
· Glazunov: Raymonda
· Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
· John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
· Giuseppi Martucci: Nottorno
· Faure: Dolly Suite
· D'Indy: Fervaal |
· Erich Korngold born
· Johannes Brahms died |
| 1898 |
· L'Affaire Dreyfus intensifies when Emile Zola publishes 'J'Accuse' and is jailed; lead prosecutor admits forged trial documents
· US and Spain at war over Cuba
· Opening of Paris Metro subway system
· Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium |
· Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
· Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
· Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
· Faure: Pelleas et Melisande
· Arturo Toscanini begins conducting career at La Scala (Milan) |
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| 1899 |
· Alfred Dreyfus pardoned by French president
· Discovery of alpha/beta rays
· First magnetic sound recording
· Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest |
· Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
· Debussy: Nocturnes
· Elgar: Enigma Variations
· Sibelius: Symphony #1
· Bruckner: Symphony #5 |
· Francis Poulenc born
· Johann Strauss, Jr. died |
