25000 BC - Glacial Ice that covered much of the Northern
Hemisphere begins to recede allowing movement of people, animals, and also revealing the formation of new mountains, valleys
and river systems.
18000 BC - Nomadic tribes of Cro-Magnon man move across
Europe and Asia setting up trade routes. They Made their own huts and shelters, sewed their own clothing and created ritualizes
religious practices to bury their dead. It leaves one to wonder what type of music( if any) would have been used in these
rituals.
15000 BC - A traumatic time in Human History as the
rise of civilization begins. Villages are formed, and soon grow into towns, Metal smelting begins.
11000 BC - As the ice age warms away through Europe
the Mesolithic period begins. Farming is introduced and a rise in agriculture begins that is still prevalent today.
9000BC - 5000 BC - Neolithic lifestyle of herding animals,
polishing weapons, and building houses out of wood replaces the old farm and mud hut traditions of Mesolithic times.
7000 BC - 3500 BC - Ceramic pots are made by high heat
years later pottery is prevalent throughout northern and eastern Europe. Pottery making culture were found throughout northern
Europe and lasted until as late as 3500 BC. For ht e most part farming was absent from these cultures.
4000 BC - Neolithic settlers begin to colonize Greece,
Probably migrating from the southern Island of Crete. Agriculture becomes the food main food source of European people.
4000 BC - Egyptian Musicians play flutes and harps.
2000 BC - Trumpets are played in Denmark.
2500 BC - Higher technology than previously, as animal
drawn ploughs and wheeled carts come onto the scene. Also , animals are kept in herds to use as food sources, mild, meat,
and hides used for clothing and baggage. Sheep as well were herded for manure and for their wool.
1000BC - First Professional Musicians play for religious
recitals and ceremonies in Israel.
800 BC - Earliest Written music known found in Sumeria
- a Hymn written upon cuneiform.
800 BC - The Celtic people begin to move across Europe.
And over the next 400 years become fierce warriors feared by many other cultures.
800 BC - Music is part of everyday life in Greece.
500 BC - The oldest reference to the terms Europe, Asia,
and Africa, are indicated by the Greek Historian Herodotus (484 - 425 BC).
390 BC - Celtic-Gauls sack Rome over a land dispute
in which roman council broke the law. When the Celtic ambassador went to Rome to bring the person that began the dispute to
justice he found they had been appointed to a higher council seat than before. This insult printed the Celts to attack and
in what is known as the battle of Allia Rome was placed under siege, a siege short lived as the Celtic warriors became ill,
and a call for an end to the fighting was quickly negotiated.
340 BC - Aristotle creates the first ideology for Music
theory.
050BC - First Oboe played in Rome.
005BC - 32 AD - Jesus of Nazareth is born in Judea,
and attributed to his teachings and crucifixion is the Christian religion a mainstay of Religious practice in Europe for over
2000 years.
100 AD - As the Roman empire grows in size and in decent,
the army is brought up to 300000 troops in order to deal with the unruliness of their conquered citizens. Christianity is
a religion here to stay, beginning in India. Christians in Europe are relentlessly persecuted and routinely murdered by Roman
authorities. In the Year 98 Trajan becomes Emperor of Rome and expands his empire.
200 AD - Roman Emperor
Septimus Severus Tours Asia, as the empires expansion continues.
and the known World’s population tops 255 million. Ideologies clash as the old ways of Classical antiquity give way
to the Middle ages.
300 AD - Diocletian's wall is built in Palmyra. The wall was a part of a greater palace built by then Roman Emperor Diocletian.
It include Lavish courtyards and a main palace with a Public bath, one of the greatest ever to be built in Rome. The palace
was completed in 307 AD. Diocletian also divides the Roman empire into Eastern and Western Empires. Emperor Constantine ends
persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire by adopting Christianity as a State religion. To further pacify the new religion
several council meetings were called to help create a basis for the new religion.
386 AD - Ambrose, Bishop of Milan introduces the sing
of Hymns to the Church.
400 AD - The Roman empire continues to Break apart,
as Franks establish themselves in Northern Holland.
This is the time in which Rome is at war with the Huns.
Attila the Hun continued to invade Italy over the next half century until his death in (??453 AD). Some attribute the collapse
of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to these continued and devastating invasions. The Eastern Roman Empire begins to expand
under Emperor Justinian.
500 AD - The Franks begin to campaign southward as the
Frankish Kingdom is formed. In England, the Kingdom of Essex is founded, Aescwine or Erkenwine of Saxony became their first
king in 527. This is the time of King Arthur in England. On Mainland Europe the Christian religion is taking hold and several
new monasteries are founded.
600 - AD Pope Gregory founds the first music school
for Church song - Schola Cantorum, in Rome
600 AD - Europe has it’s first run in with smallpox.
World Population rises to just over 300 million. The Eastern Roman empire suffers as the new Arab empire expands across it’s
borders bringing Islam to the Roman people.
700 AD - The Frankish Empire has become the dominant
Kingdom throughout Europe and the first Military leader and statesman was brought to power in 737. His name was Charles Martel,
AKA Charles the Hammer. In Britain, failed negotiations to Marry Charlemagne’s Daughter to King Offa’s son ends
in a trade embargo.
750 AD - Gregorian Church Music Spreads from Italy to
France, Germany, and England.
800 AD - Charlemagne is crowned emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire.
-The Anno Domini (AD) becomes the prevalent method for
naming years.
-Vikings expand their territories into Britain and Ireland
throwing both regions into perpetual war.
900 AD - Nuems, and musical notation begins its development.
4ths, 5ths and Octave enter into the new musical harmony.
900 AD - Vikings expend their influence into France,
the Norsemen as they were called began to settle throughout France were later known as Normans. Reindeer become extinct in
Scotland.
992 AD - Guido de Arezzo is born.
1000 AD - Europe moves into the era of the high middle
ages, as the first signs of organized capitalism and commercialized culture create a more sophisticated society. A decline
in the old Byzantine power base gives way to the Norman domination over much of Europe.
1024-25 AD - Guido D’ Arezzo introduces do-re
mi ,“Solmization” to music.
1026 AD - “Musical notation method” improved
by Guido d’ Arezzo.
1050 AD - Polyphonic singing replaces Gregorian chant
1100 AD - Europe begins to experience a “Renaissance
of music art and literature as an new humanist culture awakens in both the rich and poor classes. A rising middle class begins
to claim a place in European culture.
1100 AD - The rise of secular music in Europe begins.
1150 AD- New Dance forms begin to appear in France and
Germany.
1150 AD - The Mariners Compass( any form of magnetic
device used to point towards true north, was first documented by a European in 1150, and Christianity becomes mone humanistic,
claiming God as a goal keeper of men rather than a task master.
1200 AD - Cymbals are brought in as musical instruments.
1200 AD - this century was Wroth with wars and territorial
battles including the crusades, which actually began in 1095 and ended after 9 campaigns in 1272.
1212 AD - Battle if Las Navas - Christians begin to
recon quest the Iberian peninsula mainly from Moorish forces.
1220 AD - Boys choir began at Kreuz-Kirche, Dresden
Germany.
1223 AD - Mongols defeat Russian principalities at the
Battle of Kalka river.
1228 AD - 1229 AD - The sixth crusade led by an excommunicated
Frederick II. Significant because it was the first crusade in which Mongols attacked Europe as a conquering force, putting
Europe on the defensive.
1238 AD - French Composer Adam de la Halle is born.
1240 AD - The Mongol Empire defeats Russia.
1245 AD - First Council O Lyons - Fact finding mission
to decide what to do about all of the wars and heretics creating those wars. The idea was to absolve both Catholic Churches
from the Eastern and Western Roman Empires and absolve the Pope and the Emperor from blame in the matters of poorly laid diplomacy
ending in war.
1260 AD - First “Mastersingers School opens in
Mainz Germany.
1261 AD - Byzantines under Michael VIII retake Constantinople
from Crusaders and advance to capture Venice.
1262 AD - Adam de la Halle writes the first
Operette - LeJeu de la Feuillee.
1265 AD - Franco of Cologne and Pierre de la Croix develop
a musical form of the Motet.
1274 AD - The second Council of Lyons after the death
of there Pope was convened by pope Gregory the 10th of the Western Roman Empire, although it was convoked two years
earlier in 1272, political ramblings between various German Kings and Emperors allowed it to get underway by 1274. The idea
was to stop the wars and begin discussion on how to bring the church some sort of unified station.
1275 AD - Saw an end to the crusades against the Mongols
and after a few years a settling of embattlement, life in Europe went back to it’s less warlike ways, with the Mongols
sharing in new scientific and literary ideologies, the Renaissance flourished and by 1300 was a full blown age of enlightenment.
1287 AD - French Composer Adam de la Halle Dies.
1290 AD - French Composer Phillipe de Vitry is Born.
1300 AD - French Composer Guillaume de Machaut is Born.
1300 AD - A rapid expansion was well on it’s way,
Mathematical prowess and technological sophistication brought about a medieval industrial revolution.
1329 AD - Phillipe de Vitry names the new heavily contrapunctal
musical style in his Treatise “ARS NOVA.
1337 AD - Beginning of the Hundred Years War.
1347 AD - This revolution of industry and new technology
was short lived as the introduction of The Black death to Europe began to sweep through the Continent killing millions in
a matter of a few years. The disease was Bubonic Plague, and sic waves of the disease divested Europe over the last half of
the century.
1350 AD - Popularity of the Lute being played throughout
Europe.
1360 AD - The Church has begun to loose it’s hold
over the people and the purity of Christianity is lost to the Humanist ideologies and to those of the many cultures now sharing
the same European soil.
1360 AD - Clavichord and Cembalo begin their development.
1361 AD - French Composer Philippe de Vitry Dies.
1363 AD - Guillaume de Machaut composes his mass for 4 voices to be performed for the
coronation of Charles V at Reims.
1368 AD - China cuts off trade and rights to foreign
visits, cutting Europe off from the Orient.
1369 AD - English Composer John Dunstable is Born.
1377 AD - French Composer
Guillaume de Machaut dies.
1396 AD - Islamic Turks advance upon Europe making and
“end Run” for the fledgling Byzantine empire. They manage to take Constantinople in 1453.
1399 AD - Dutch Composer Guillaume Dufay is Born.
1400 AD - Henry IV of England quells an attempted coo
to restore Richard II as King of England.
1429 AD - Joan of Arc turns the tide of the Hundred
Years war by ending the siege at Orleans.
1430 AD - The “First Dutch school of Music”
founded by Guillaume Dufay.
1430 AD - Flemish Composer Johannes Okegham is Born.
1431 AD - Joan of arc is sentenced to death and summarily
executed.
1437 AD - John Dunstable continues the development of
Counterpoint.
1450 AD - Dutch Composer Josquin des Pres is Born.
1455 AD - English Composer John Dunstable Dies.
1453 AD - The Fall of Constantinople ends the once great
Byzantine Empire. The death of the Last Roman emperor begins the growth of the Ottoman Empire.
- The Battle of Castellan ends the Hundred years war.
1460 AD - Johannes Okegham Compose the “Death
of Binchios.”
1465 AD - Music First appears as printed manuscript.
1474 AD - Dutch Composer Guillaume Dufay Dies.
1492 AD - Christopher Columbus lands in the New World
- dubs it the Americas.
1492 AD - The idea of Opera, first proposed in a treatise
on music Theory by Roman philosopher Boethius(480 - 525 AD) is published in Venice.
1494 AD - Flemish Composer Johannes Okegham dies.
1494 AD - Spain and Portugal sign a treaty to divvy
up the new world amongst themselves(Treaty of Tordesillas).
1495 AD - Josquin des Pres becomes “Choirmaster
at Cambrai Cathedral“.
1499 AD - University at Oxford England begins it’s
Musical degree program
1500 AD - German Author Hans Folz (1437-1513) of Nuremburg
reforms the songs of the mastersingers, now allowing worldly subjects to be admitted.
1500 AD - The Spanish discover Brazil but is prevented
from claiming it by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1502 AD - Josquin des Pres “First book of Masses”
is published by Italian printer Ottaviano de Petrucci.
1502 AD - African Human slaves brought to the new world
for the first time.
1505 AD - English Composer Thomas Tallis is Born.
1512 AD - “Second Book of Masses” published
(Josquin des Pres).
1519 AD - 1522 AD - The Spanish Magellan sets of to
circumnavigate the earth
1525 AD - Italian Composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
is born
1543 AD - Thomas Tallis accepts a post at Canterbury
Cathedral in London England, and becomes “Court composer” for King Henry VIII.
1543 AD - English Composer William Byrd is Born.
1546 AD - Michelangelo is made chief architect at St.
Peter’s Basilica.
1551 AD - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina accepts a post as music director at St. Peter’s
Church in Rome.
1553 AD - The violins development begins to reach it’s
present form.
1553 AD - Mary Tudor becomes the first Queen of England.
1554 AD -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina publishes his first book of Masses dedicated
to Pope Julius III.
1557 AD - English Theorist and Composer Thomas Morley
is Born.
1558 AD - Mary Tudor dies of Cancer and is succeeded
by her sister half sister Elizabeth.
1561 AD - Italian Composer Jacopo Peri is born.
1567 AD - Italian Composer Claudio Monteverdi is born.
1571 AD - In the New world - Spanish Missionaries are
killed by local Indians at a place that would later become Jamestown, Virginia.
1572 AD - William Byrd and Thomas Tallis become organist
at the Royal chapel.
1575 AD - Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted
exclusive rights to polyphonic music by Queen Elizabeth I for a period of 21 years.
1582 AD - Pope Gregory XIII Issues the Gregorian Calendar.
1587 AD - Claudio Monteverdi publishes his
“First book of Madrigals.”
1592 AD - Claudio Monteverdi Publishes his
“Third book of Madrigals.”
1594 AD - Italian Composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies.
1594 AD - Jacopo Peri write the First Opera
“Daphne.”
1597 AD - Theory book by Thomas Morley -
“An Introduction to Practical Music.”
1600 AD - Thomas Morley Publishes his “First
book of Ayres.”
1600 AD - Jacopo Peri writes “Euridici”
Opera.
1600 AD - The Recorder(flute-a-bec) becomes popular
in England.
1601 AD - 1603 AD - A Massive Famine kills approximately
one third of Russia.
1603 AD - English Theorist and Composer Thomas Morley
dies.
1603 AD - Claudio Monteverdi Publishes his
“Fourth book of Madrigals.”
1605 AD - Claudio Monteverdi Publishes his
“Fifth book of Madrigals.”
1607 AD - Claudio Monteverdi Publishes his
Opera “Orfeo.”
1613 AD - Claudio Monteverdi accepts a post of “Maestro
di Capella” at St. Marks Cathedral in Venice.
1616 AD - Collegium Musicum Founded at Prague Czechoslovakia.
1620 AD - Claudio Monteverdi Publishes his
“Seventh book of Madrigals.”
1620 AD - Syntagma Musicum - first Encyclopaedia of
Music is Published.
1622 AD - Jamestown Massacre (Virginia, USA).
1623 AD - William Byrd Dies.
1634 AD - Claudio Monteverdi Publishes
his opera “Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.”
1633 AD - Galileo is tried before the Inquisition of
the Roman Catholic church, charged with heresy.
1637 AD - Danish Composer Dietrich Buxtehude is Born.
1641 AD - Claudio Monteverdi opera -
"Il Ritono d Ulisse in patria."
1643 AD - Italian Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies.
1648 AD - English Musician John Blow is Born.
1649 AD - Italian Composer Giuseppe Torelli is born.
1650 AD - The overture becomes a part of Opera - In
French and in Italian.
1650 AD - Modern Harmony begins with the development
of modulation.
1652 AD - Anglo-Dutch Wars Begin.
1652 AD - The Minuet becomes fashionable at the French
Court.
1652 AD - Europe’s first opera house is built
in Vienna.
1653 AD - Italian Composer Archangello Corelli is Born.
1657 AD - London’s first Opera house is completed
and opened to the public.
1659 AD - English Composer Henry Purcell is Born.
1659 AD - Italian Composer Allesandro Scarlatti is Born.
1666 AD - The great fire of London, England.
1668 AD - Dietrich Buxtehude accepts a post of “Organist
at St. Mary’s Cathedral” in Lubeck Germany.
1671 AD - Paris Opera house opens to the
public with Cambert’s “Pomone.”
1676 AD - Ottoman empire joins with Russia to wage war
on Turkey.
1678 AD - Antonio Vivaldi is born.
1679 AD -
Alessandro Scarlatti's first opera, "Gli Equivoci nell amore" performed
in Rome .
1680 AD - Henry Purcell accepts a posting of Organist
of Westminster Abby in London England.
1682 AD - Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of both
Russia and the ottoman empire.
1682 AD - Henry Purcell is made “Court Composer”
to Charles II.
1685 AD - Italian Composer Dominico Scarlatti is born.
1685 AD - English Composer George Fredrick Handel is
born.
1685 AD - German Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is Born.
1689 AD - Henry Purcell publishes the Opera
“Dido and Aeneas.”
1691 AD - Henry Purcell Opera “King Arthur.”
1694 AD - Henry Purcell - “Incidental
music for St. Cecilia’s Day.”
1693 AD - Allesandro Scarlatti Opera “Teodora.”
1695 AD - English Composer Henry Purcell Dies.
1697 AD - Anthem by John Blow “I was glad when
they said”(Written for the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London England).
1698 AD - Giuseppe Torelli becomes “Maestro
di Concerto” at the court of Georg Friedrich II, Margrave of Brandenburg.
1700 AD - The Great Northern War Begins.
1701 AD - 1714 AD - War of Spanish succession creates
problems for most of Europe.
1704 AD - George Frederick Handel writes
“St. John’s Passion.”
1704 AD - Johann Sebastian Bach writes the Cantata “Denn
Du wirst meine Seele” his first.
1705 AD - George Frederick Handel Opera staged in Hamburg
Germany “Almira.”
1705 AD - Young JS Bach Walks 200 miles to view a Buxtehude
concert.
1707 AD - George Frederick Handel meets Dominico Scarlatti
in Venice
.
1707 AD - Danish Composer Dietrich Buxtehude Dies.
1708 AD - Italian Composer Giuseppe Torelli Dies.
1708 AD - English Musician John Blow dies.
1710 AD - Handel Becomes Kapellmeister to elector prince
George of Hanover.
1712 AD - Arcangelo Corelli Composes “12
Concerti grossi.”
1713 AD - Italian Composer Arcangelo Corelli dies.
1714 AD - German Composer Christoph Willibold Gluck
is Born.
1715 AD - Dominico Scarlatti accepts a post of “Maestro
de cappella at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.
1717 AD - Johann Sebastian Bach publishes
“Orggelbucklein” (46 chorales for Organ).
1719 AD - Dominico Scarlatti Begins writing Sonatas
and continues to until his death in 1757 (555 Sonatas in total).
1721 AD - Ends the Great Northern War with the Treaty
of Nystad.
1721 AD - Johann Sebastian Bach writes the
“Brandenburg Concertos.”
1723 AD - Johann Sebastian Bach writes “St.
Johns Passion” and is appointed Thomascantor in Leipzig.
1723 AD - Antonio Vivaldi completes and publishes the
string Quartets “The Four Seasons(Le Quattro Stagioni).”
1723 AD - 1725AD - George Frederick Handel
writes a series of Operas in England including “Ottone“, and “Rondelinde.”
1725 AD - Italian Composer Allesandro Scarlatti Dies.
1725 AD - Johann Sebastian Bach writes the “Notebook
for Anne Magdalena Bach.”
1729 AD - Johann Sebastian Bach completes “St.
Matthew’s Passion.”
1732 AD - Austrian Composer Franz Joseph Haydn is Born.
1740 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn enters the boys choir at
court Chapel in Vienna.
1740 AD - Dominico Scarlatti visits London England and
Dublin Ireland.
1741 AD - George Frederick Handel writes the “Messiah
Oratorio.”
1741 AD - Christoph Willibold Gluck writes his first
opera “Artaserse” Performed in Milan.
1741 AD - Austrian Composer Antonio Vivaldi dies.
1744 AD - Christoph Willibold Gluck writes the opera
"Iphigenie en Aulide."
1749 AD - George Frederick Handel “Music for the
Royal Fireworks.”
1750 AD - German Composer Johann Sebastian Bach Dies.
1756 AD - Seven Years War.
1756 AD - Austrian Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
is Born.
1757 AD - Italian Composer Dominico Scarlatti Dies.
1759 AD - English Composer George Frederick Handel dies.
1759 AD - 1760AD - Franz
Joseph Haydn writes “Symphonies no.1 - 5.”
1761 AD - Christoph Willibold Gluck writes “Don
Juan Ballet” performed first in Vienna.
1762 AD - Christoph Willibold Gluck writes
his most famous Opera “Orpheus and Euridici.”
1762 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tours Europe as a
child prodigy at age 6.
1764 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes his first symphony
at age 8.
1764 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn writes “Symphony
no.22.”
1765 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn writes his
“Great Mass in E.”
1768 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s First Opera
“Bastien and Bastienne First performed in Vienna.
1770 AD - Ludwig van Beethoven is Born.
1774 AD - Christoph Willibold Gluck writes
the Opera “
Iphigenie en Aulide.”
1775 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
opera
"La Finta Giardiniera," performed first in Salzburg’s Opera Buffa.
1776 AD - Illuminati is founded by Adam Weishoupt.
1776 AD - United States of America is born from the
Declaration of independence.
1777 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn writes “Symphony
no. 63.”
1778 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
"Les Petits Riens ballet“, first performed in Paris .
1778 AD - Young Ludwig van Beethoven is presented by
his father as a child Prodigy.
1783 AD - Italian Composer Nicolo Paganini is Born.
1783 AD - Ludwig van Beethoven’s first works are
printed.
1787 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don
Giovanni” first performed in Prague Czechoslovakia.
1787 AD - Christoph Willibold Gluck dies.
1791 AD - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
1791 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn “Surprise
Symphony.”
1791 AD - Austrian Composer Carl Czerny is born.
1792 AD - Ludwig van Beethoven becomes Haydn’s
pupil in Vienna.
1795 AD - “Conservatoire de Musique”
is founded in Paris France.
1795 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn completes “London
symphonies“(12 in all).
1797 AD - Austrian Composer Franz Schubert is born.
1797 AD - Gaetano Donizetti is Born.
1799 AD - Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his 1st
of 9 Symphonies “Symphony no.1 in C Major.”
1803 AD - French Composer Hector Berlioz is Born.
1804 AD - First steam Locomotive.
1804 AD - Johan Strauss I is born.
1805 AD - Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his Opera “Fidelio”
first performed in Vienna.
1809 AD - Franz Joseph Haydn dies.
1809 AD - German Composer Felix Mendelssohn is born.
1810 AD - Polish Composer Frederic Francois Chopin is
born.
1810 AD - German composer Robert Schumann is born.
1811 AD - Hungarian Composer Franz Liszt is born.
1813 AD - Italian Composer Giuseppe Verdi is born
1821 AD - 1830 AD - Greek war of independence Breaks
Greece away from the Ottoman empire, the first of the ottoman countries to do so.
1813 AD - German Composer Richard Wagner is Born.
1817 AD - Frederic Francois Chopin writes his first
composition at age 7 - “Polonaise in g minor.”
1822 AD - Franz Liszt makes his concert Debut in Vienna
at age 11.
1822 AD - The “Royal Academy of Music”
is founded in London England.
1824 AD - Czech Composer Bedrich Smetana is Born.
1825 AD - German Composer Johann Strauss II is Born.
1830 AD - Robert Schumann begins studying piano in Leipzig.
1830 AD -
Franz Liszt begins work on his “Piano Concerto no. 1.”
1832 AD - Robert Schumann complete the program
music “Papillons.”
1833 AD - German Composer Johannes Brahms is born.
1834 AD - Robert Schumann completes the piano works
for “Carnival.”
1835 AD - Franz Liszt begins his relationship with
Countess Marie d'Agoult they settle down and
have two children.
1839 AD - Until 1847 Franz Liszt tours Europe as a virtuoso
pianist.
1839 AD - Russian Composer Modest
Mussorgsky is born
.
1840 AD - 1849 AD -
Franz Liszt completes his “Piano Concerto
no. 2.”
1840 AD - Robert Schumann marries Clara Weick a virtuoso
pianist of the highest calibre .
1840 AD - Russian Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
is born.
1842 AD - Lisztomania Spreads across Europe, causing
hysteria everywhere Franz Liszt went.
1842 AD - Franz Liszt accepts an appointment as Kapellmeister
in Weimar.
1842 AD - Founding of “The New
York Philharmonic Society.”
1843 AD - Norwegian Composer Edward Grieg is Born.
1843 AD - Richard Wagner stages his opera “The
flying Dutchman” for the first time in Dresden, Germany.
1844 AD - Johann Strauss II makes his Debut
as a composer at Dommayer’s Casino in Vienna with waltzes “Sinngedichte, and Herzenslust (amongst others).”
1844 AD - Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Emani”
is performed for the first time in Venice.
1844 AD - Franz Liszt and
Countess Marie d'Agoult split up.
1849 AD - Richard Wagner flees to Zurich as a result
of his participation in a local revolt in Dresden.
1849 AD -
Franz Liszt final revision of his “Piano Concerto no. 1.”
1849 AD - Johann Strauss I dies.
1849 AD - Franz Liszt completes his symphonic poem “Tasso.”
1846 AD - The Paris Opera get electric lighting.
1847 AD -
Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Macbeth” is performed for
the first time in Florence.
1848 AD - Merges his orchestra with that of his father(Johann
Strauss I) and begins extensive touring of the Austria Hungary area.
1849 AD - Frederic Francois Chopin dies.
1851 AD - Giuseppe Verdi’s opera
“Rigoletto ” is performed for the first time in Venice.
1853 AD - Richard Wagner Completes his
Teralogy “Der Ring des Nebulung.”
1853 AD - Giuseppe Verdi’s opera
“La Traviata” is performed for the first time in Venice.
1854 AD - Franz Liszt completes his symphonic poem “Les
Preludes.”
1855 AD - Johann Strauss II and his orchestra accept
10 consecutive yearly commissions to perform in Russia courtesy of the Tsarskoye-Selo Railway Company of St. Petersburg.
1856 AD - First oil refinery in the world in Romania.
1856 AD - Robert Schumann dies.
1857 AD - Franz Liszt final revision of his “Piano Concerto no. 2.”
1860 AD - German Composer Gustav Mahler is born.
.
1862 AD - French Composer Claude Debussy is born.
1863 AD - Johann Strauss II Becomes the
“Music director of the Royal Court Balls.”
1864 AD - German Composer Richard Strauss is Born.
1865 AD - Richard Wagner stages his opera “Tristan
und Isolde” for the first time in Munich.
1866 AD - Johan Strauss III is born.
1866 AD - Bedrich Smetana’s opera “The Bartered
Bride is performed for the first time in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1866 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky accepts professorship
at Moscow University.
1866 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky writes
“Symphony no.1.”
1867 AD - Modest Mussorgsky composes the
original version of “A night on Bald Mountain” from which a more popular version of it is arranged
for orchestra by Rimsky Korsakov in 1886 -“Fantasy for orchestra.”
1868 AD - Johann Strauss II completes his
waltz “Tales from the Vienna woods.
1868 AD - Edvard Grieg composes his “Piano concerto
in A minor.”
1868 AD - Johannes Brahms completes his
“German Requiem.”
1869 AD - The Suez Canal creates a permanent trade route
between Europe and Asia through it’s link to the Red Sea.
1869 AD - Modest Mussorgsky composed his
opera “Boris Godunov.”
1869 AD - Franz Liszt begins giving master piano classes
at Hungarian Music academy.
1879 AD - Johann Strauss II and his orchestra tour the
united States.
1871 AD - Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Aida”
is performed for the first time in Cairo.
1872 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Symphony
no.2” First performed in Moscow.
1873 AD - Russian Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff is born.
1874 AD - Johannes Brahms completes his
“Hungarian Dances.”
1874 AD - Modest Mussorgsky composes his
most famous piano composition in ten movements “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
1874 AD - American Composer Charles Ives is Born.
1874 AD - Bedrich Smetana completes his Symphonic poem
series Mien Vlast (My Fatherland) including “The Moldau.”
1874 AD - English Composer Gustav Holst is Born.
1874 AD - German Composer Arnold Schoenberg is born
.
1874 AD - The New “Paris Opera house”
is completed.
1875 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Symphony
no.3” First performed in Moscow.
1875 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Piano
Concerto no. 1” First performed in Boston, America.
1876 AD - Johannes Brahms completes his
“Symphony no.1.”
1876 AD - Edvard Grieg composes his “Peer
Gynt Suite.”
1877 AD - Johannes Brahms completes his
“Symphony no.2.”
1878 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Symphony
no.4” First performed in St. Petersburg.
1879 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Piano
Concerto no. 2” First performed in Ney York City, America.
1879 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his opera,
“Eugen Onegin,” first performed in Moscow.
1880 AD - Gustav Mahler accepts the post of “Conductor
for the Bad Hall Theatre” in Linz, Germany.
1880 AD - Edvard Grieg becomes music director of the
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway.
1881 AD - Hungarian Composer Bela Bartok is born.
1881 AD - Russian Composer Modest Mussorgsky dies.
1882 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Composes
his “1812 Overture.”
1883 AD - German Composer Richard Wagner dies.
1883 AD - The “Royal College of Music”
is founded in London England.
1876 AD - Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India.
1883 AD - The “Metropolitan Opera House”
is opened in New York city.
1884 AD - Johannes Brahms completes his
“Symphony no.3.”
1884 AD - The first musical recording was made be American
Emile Berliner who recorded ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ on an Edison cylinder machine.
1884 AD - Bedrich Smetana dies.
1885 AD - Johannes Brahms completes his
“Symphony no.4.”
1885 AD - Austrian Composer Alban Berg is Born.
1886 AD - Franz Liszt dies.
1887 AD - Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Ottelo”
is performed for the first time in Milan.
1888 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Symphony
no.5” First performed in St. Petersburg.
1888 AD - Gustav Mahler Composed his “1st
Symphony.”
1888 AD - American Composer Irving Berlin is Born.
1888 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Completes his “Symphony
no.5” First performed in St. Petersburg.
1890 AD - 1893 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s
Ballets “The Sleeping Beauty,” and “Nutcracker.” Suite” enjoy great success.
1892 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his “Morceaux
de fantaisie(Fantasy Pieces)-Op 3“, in which the “Prelude in c-sharp minor(Op 3 no.2)” has become
one of his most famous piano solo works.
1892 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his “Piano
Concerto no. 1,” only to revise it in 1917.
1893 AD - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes
his “Piano Concerto no. 3.”
1893 AD - Claude Debussy composes his “String
Quartet in g minor.”
1893 AD - Claude Debussy composes his “Prelude
to the afternoon of a Faun”(Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune).
1895 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his
“Symphony
no.1.”
1898 AD - American Composer George Gershwin is Born.
1897 AD - Johannes Brahms dies.
1899 AD - Gustav Mahler composed his “4thSymphony.”
1899 AD - Charles Ives completes his “Symphony
no.1.”
1899 AD - Arnold Shoenberg composes his string sextet
“Verklarte Nacht,”(Transfigured Night).
1900 AD - American Composer Aaron Copeland is Born.
1901 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his
“Piano Concerto no.2.”
1901 AD - Italian Composer Giuseppe Verdi dies.
1901 AD - Charles Ives completes his “Symphony
no.2.”
1903 AD - Ford Motor Company founded in 1903 with the
creation of the first assembly line.
1904 AD - First concert of the “London
Symphony Orchestra.”
1905 AD - Claude Debussy completes his “Suite
bergamasque.” in which the 3rd movement and most famous “Clair de Lune” can be found.
1905 AD - Gustav Mahler composed his “7th
Symphony.”
1906 AD - Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is born.
1907 AD - Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg dies.
1908 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his
“Symphony
no.2.”
1908 AD - Charles Ives writes his “Symphony
no.3.”
1909 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his
“Piano Concerto no.3.”
1909 AD - Arnold Schoenberg composes his
“Three pieces for piano.”
1910 AD - Gustav Mahler composed his “10th
Symphony.”
1911 AD - Irving Berlin Composes the March
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”
1911 AD - Arnold Schoenberg writes his text “The
Theory of Harmony,” (published in 1922).
1911 AD - German Composer Gustav Mahler dies.
1912 AD - Charles Ives writes his “Symphony
no.4”
1913 AD - Charles Ives completes his “Holiday
Symphony.”
1914 AD - Charles Ives composes his “Three
Places in New England” composition for orchestra.
1914 AD - 1918 AD - World War one(WWI).
1918 AD - French Composer Claude Debussy dies.
1918 AD - Arnold Shoenberg founds “The
Society for private musical performances.”
1918 AD - American Conductor and Composer Leonard Bernstein
is born.
1921 AD - Irving Berlin partners up with Sam Harris
to build the Tin Pan Alley Theatre “Music Box Theatre” in Ney York city, America.
1924 AD - George Gershwin Composes “Rhapsody in
Blue’ and “An American in Paris.”
1924 AD - Dmitri Shostakovich composes his
“Symphony no.1.”
1925 AD - Irving Berlin writes the hit song
“Always.”
1926 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his
“Piano Concerto no.4.”
1928 AD - Dmitri Shostakovich composes
his satirical opera “The Nose.”
1929 AD - Great Depression (World wide).
1934 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composes his
“Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.”
1935 AD - George Gershwin writes the music
and songs for the opera “Porgy and Bess.”
1936 AD - Sergei Rachmaninoff composes his
“Symphony no.3.”
1936 AD - Dmitri Shostakovich composes his
“Symphony no.4.”
1936 AD - The first Electric Guitars appear on stage.
1937 AD - American Composer George Gershwin dies.
1937 AD - After a performance of Bella Bartok
is the Debut of “The Glenn Miller Band.”
1938 AD - Irving Berlin writes his patriotic
anthem “God Bless America.”
1938 AD - Aaron Copeland Composes the Ballet “Billy
the Kid.”
1939 AD - Jazz and big Band become the popular music
of the day.
1939 AD - Johan Strauss III dies.
1939 AD - 1945 AD - World War two (WWII).
1942 AD - Aaron Copeland composes his :Fanfare for the
Common Man,” for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
1943 AD - Russian Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies.
1945 AD - Dmitri Shostakovich composes his
“Symphony no.9.”
1945 AD - Hungarian Composer Bella Bartok dies.
1946 AD - Irving Berlin takes over the scoring of the
musical “Anne Get Your Gun” from a close friend who suddenly died.
1949 AD - German composer Richard Strauss dies.
1951 AD - Arnold Schoenberg dies.
1954 AD - Elvis Presley has his first Recorded hit single
with “That’s alright Mama.”
1954 AD - American Composer Charles Ives dies.
1955 AD - Bill Haley and the comets become the first
rock and roll group to have a hit single.
1957 AD - Sputnik, the first satellite launched by Russia.
1960 AD - Anew wave of music - Rock n Roll, and POP
become the dominant music of the average listener.
1962 AD - Ray Charles begins his career with a mix of
soft jazz, blues and a touch of rock and roll.
1964 AD - The Beatles have their first hit “ I
wanna hold your hand.”
1965 AD - Bob Dylan starts a movement of youth dissention
as his career begins at the Newport Folk Festival.
1965 AD - Simon and Garfunkel rise to fame with the
hit “The sounds of Silence.”
1966 AD - The Beatles rival Elvis Presley as the two
biggest names in Rock music History.
1967 AD - Rock and roll culture gap begins in San Francisco
with psychedelic music entering mainstream listening.
1967 AD - American Moon Landing.
1969 AD - The Woodstock Concert begins the movement
of peace and Love in America as major music personalities played over a three day weekend to as many as 500 000 fans. The
festival took place in Wood stock, New York, as per its namesake.
1969 AD - Winnipeg Band the Guess who take their place
in Rock music history with the release of the Album Wheatfield soul which included peace and love, protest songs. As well
as Rock song “American Woman“, and Ballad and hit single “These eyes.”
1970 AD - Beetles Break up.
1970 AD - Disco Music begins its rise to Popularity.
1971 AD - Dmitri Shostakovich composes his
“Symphony no.15.”(his last).
1971 AD - Paul McCartney, former Beatle announces the
formation of his group “Wings.”
1971 AD - Rock Band Queen is formed.
1972 AD - The Eagles cut their first Album
in London England called “The Eagles.”
1974 AD - Punk Rock begins as a self inflicted nightmare
music.
1975 AD - Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich dies.
1977 AD - Studio 54 Opens in New York City.
1977 AD - London England opens it’s first Punk
rock nightclub “The Roxy.”
1979 AD - 1989 AD - Soviet war in Afghanistan.
1989 AD - American Composer Irving Berlin dies.
1990 AD - American Composer Aaron Copeland dies.
1990 AD - 1991 AD - First Gulf War.
2000 AD - Rock music becomes consistently more commercial
with much of it’s genre copied from earlier times. The end of the rock movement almost seems to be at hand. We await
to see what’s next in store for mainstream commercial music.
2001 AD - “911” - Two airliner crash into
the two towers of the World trade centre.
2002 AD - International Criminal court established.
2003 AD - Second Gulf War.
2006 AD - North Korea - first nuclear test.
2010 AD -Vancouver Canada becomes a World stage as the
host of the Worlds 21st Winter Olympics.
2011 AD - Terrorist Osama Bin Laden, blamed for the
terrorist attach on the world trade centre in 2001 is cornered and Killed by American Navy Seal Commandos in Pakistan.
