1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf
1997 "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 79 performances
1994 Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
1985 George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1982 1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
1979 Julia A Perry, U.S. composer and conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1978 Don Gillis, U.S. composer (Symphony #5 ), dies at 65
1973 Istvan Kertesz, Hung/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43
1972 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony
1968 Charles Munch, French/US conductor (Boston Symphony Orch), dies at 77
1968 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony
1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony
1964 Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres
1963 Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74
1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
1962 Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (New York Philharmonic), dies at 85
1962 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres
1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1962 Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF
1961 Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
1961 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch' 12nd Symphony
1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres
1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
1957 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris
1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
1955 Walter Piston's 6th Symphony, premieres
1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila
1953 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1953 Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony
1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
1950 Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres
1950 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1950 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St. Joan," premieres
1949 Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres
1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
1947 Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris
1947 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
1946 Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1946 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1946 Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
1945 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY
1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony
1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
1943 Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres
1943 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
1941 Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony
1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1941 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
1939 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres
1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
1937 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1937 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1935 Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra
1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1932 Joseph Silverstein, born in Detroit, Michigan, violinist, Denver Symphony Orch
1932 "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1930 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres
1930 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1930 Maureen Forrester, born in Montreal, Canada, contralto, Ressurection Symphony
1930 Lorin Maazel, born in Neuilly, France, conductor, NBC Symphony Orch 1941
1929 Andre Previn, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor London Symphony, and pianist
1928 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1928 Byron "Yanks" Janis, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, pianist, NBC Symphony Orch
1927 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1927 Raymond Leppard, born in London, England, conductor, St. Louis Symphony Orch
1927 Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1927 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
1926 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1924 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma," premieres in Paris
1924 Julian B Coco, Curacao guitarist/bassist, Utrecht Symphony Orch
1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
1922 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London
1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1916 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1915 Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1912 Don Gillis, born in Cameron, Missouri, composer, Symphony #5
1911 SF Symphony formed
1911 Enrique Jorda, born in San Sebastian, Spain, conductor, SF Symphony Orch 1970
1910 Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
1908 Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres
1908 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague
1908 George Schick, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, Chicago Symphony
1907 Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres
1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1904 Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1904 Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres
1903 Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer, Lied Symphony
1903 Gunther AR Raphael, German composer, Symphony Breve
1903 Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist, Boston Symphony Orchestra
1902 Jesus Maria Sanroma, Carolina PR, pianist, Boston Symphony
1902 Max Rudolf, born in Frankfurt, Germany, conductor, Goteberg Symphony Orch
1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St. Petersburg
1901 Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G, premieres
1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
1896 Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72
1895 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"
1892 Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres
1890 Erich Kleiber, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, NBC Symphony 1945-46
1890 Lauritz Melchior, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, baritone tenor, Natl Symphony
1889 Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony
1889 Cesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres
1888 Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orch
1888 St. Tsjaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in Petersburg
1887 Nadia Boulanger, conductor, 1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony
1886 Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres
1885 John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres
1884 Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1883 John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
1882 Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony
1882 Leopold Stokowski, born in London, England, conductor, Cincinnati Symphony
1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1880 Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker, Diagonal Symphony
1878 Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1877 Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1877 Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres
1877 Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1876 John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1869 Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1868 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor, Hebridean Symphony
1868 Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1865 Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete" Symphony," premieres
1858 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra
1854 Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres
1851 Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf
1846 Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres
1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
1841 Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres
1841 Antonin Dvorak, Nelahozeves Czechoslovakia, composer, New World Symphony
1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1830 Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1803 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
1797 Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer, Unfinished Symphony
1795 Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres
1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
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