1823 first performance of Franz Schubert's incidental music for the play Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern (Rosamunde, Princ ess of Cyprus) by Helmina von…

1825 George Frederick Bristow – American composer (d.1898); a champion of American music, an historically important choral composer and a nationalist in…

1860 Edward MacDowell – American composer and pianist (d.1908); one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and…

1749 Domenico Cimarosa – Italian composer (d.1801); wrote more than 80 operas including his masterpiece, Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage,…

1770 Ludwig van Beethoven – German composer and pianist (d.1827); crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art…

1657 Michel-Richard Delalande – French composer and organist (d.1726); employed by King Louis XIV; one of the most important composers of ‘grands motets’;…

1738 Jan Antonín Kozeluch – Bohemian composer (d.1814); concertmaster in Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral for thirty years.1873 Joseph Jongen – Belgian…

1895 first complete performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’, by Berlin Philharmonic with the composer conducting; in the original program…

1887 Kurt Atterberg – Swedish composer (d.1974); for the 100th anniversary of the death of Schubert in 1928, the Columbia Graphophone Company sponsored a…

1803 Hector Berlioz – French composer and conductor (d.1869); extremely influential in the development of the symphonic form, instrumentation, and the…

1680 death of Marco Uccellini – Italian composer and violinist (age c. 77); one of the distinguished violinist-composers in the first half of the 17th…

1836 premiere of Mikhail Glinka's ‘patriotic-heroic tragic opera’ A Life for the Tsar; originally titled Ivan Susanin after its lead character, but as a…