2009 Event Two previously unknown works by Mozart - a concerto movement and a prelude, are performed in Salzburg, Austria 1992 Death Ray Gill, actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42 1990 Event "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City 1945 Event Arnold Schonberg's Prelude for orchestra and mixed choir, premieres 1894 Event Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres 1892 Event Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow 1873 Birthday Sergei Rachmaninoff, born in Novgorod, Russia, composer, Prelude in C# Minor 1862 Event Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt., however General Charles S. Winder is killed 1770 Birthday William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate, Prelude