15 first-night flops |
April 30, 1902: The premiere of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande |
Bernstein's Mass premiered |
Bridgetower and Beethoven sparkle in Kreutzer premiere |
Britten's War requiem premiered may 30, 1962 |
Bruckner's Ninth gets a posthumous... |
Bruckner's Third symphony premiered: december 16, 1877 |
Cage bemuses New York with the sound of silence: August 1952 |
City of light |
December 22, 1808: Beethoven's fifth- and sixth, and mass in C, and... |
For unto Ireland, Handel's Messiah is born in Dublin |
From variety to verismo |
Gershwin gives the world premiere of Rhapsody... |
Handel's Messiah: April 13, 1742: "The most finished piece of musick" |
Mahler's Symphony No. 8 premiere |
Mephistopheles endures a truly diabolical reception |
Monteverdi's Orfeo: February 24, 1607 |
October 25, 1875: Tchaikovsky's First piano concerto |
Prokofiev's Kije sleigh-rides through the Russian snow |
Protecting veil: September 9, 1989: A John Tavener premiere |
Rite of spring |
Rossini's Barber of Seville premiered |
Threepenny opera premiered august 31, 1928 |
Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia... |
Vienna gives Bruckner's Third a wretched... |
Work to rally the troops - but which troops?: Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony: US premiere July 19, 1942 |