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[edit] 2000s

Live 8 concerts took place in 9 countries worldwide during 2005.

2008 in music, 2008 in British music
2007 in music, 2007 in British music - Deaths of Beverly Sills, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson, Izumi Sakai, Luciano Pavarotti and Don Arden; Live Earth, Led Zeppelin reunion; said to be the "largest demand for one show in history" due to overwhelming response at ticketing website; Radiohead splits from EMI and independently releases the highly anticipated In Rainbows as an online download with a method of payment that allows the buyer to choose their price, sparking a fair amount of controversy and praise. J-pop recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki becomes the first artist to ever top the United World Chart with two albums landing at #1 and #2 at the same time with her compilation albums A Best 2 -White- and A Best 2 -Black-.
2006 in music, 2006 in British music, 2006 in Swiss music - Deaths of James Brown and Syd Barrett; Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
2005 in music, 2005 in British music, 2005 in Swiss music - Death of Luther Vandross, Live 8 benefit concert; arrival of Rihanna.
2004 in music, 2004 in British music - Death of Ray Charles and Dimebag Darrell; DJ Danger Mouse, The Grey Album-sparks day of electronic disobedience by internet filesharers against EMI; Westlife member Brian McFadden departed from the band.
2003 in music, 2003 in British music - Death of Johnny Cash; The White Stripes, Elephant
2002 in music, 2002 in British music - Death of Waylon Jennings, Dave Van Ronk, Death of Layne Staley and Joe Strummer, The Eminem Show
2001 in music, 2001 in British music - Napster's popularity peaks; Deaths of Aaliyah, George Harrison, John Lee Hooker, John Phillips; The Strokes, Is This It
2000 in music, 2000 in British music - Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, Living Colour reunites

List of 10 most sold albums of the 2000s:

The Beatles 1'' - 31 million - 2000
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP - 22.8 million - 2000
Norah Jones Come Away With Me - 22.5 million - 2002
Eminem The Eminem Show - 20.5 million - 2002
Britney Spears Oops I Did It Again - 20 million - 2000
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory - 16.5 million - 2000
'N Sync No Strings Attached - 16 million - 2000
Avril Lavigne Let Go - 15.7 million - 2002
Usher Confessions - 15.5 million - 2004
Evanescence Fallen - 15 million - 2003
Eminem Encore - 14.5 million - 2004

[edit] 1990s

1999 in music, 1999 in British music - Arrival of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lopez; Death of Rick Danko; Blur - Blur
1998 in music, 1998 in British music - Arrival of Eminem; Death of Frank Sinatra and Hide; Lauryn Hill - the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; Offspring - Americana
1997 in music, 1997 in British music - Death of John Denver, Jeff Buckley, The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Hutchence ,and Velvet, Radiohead's OK Computer
1996 in music, 1996 in British music - Death of Ella Fitzgerald, Arrival of The Spice Girls death of Tupac Shakur, and Brad Nowell, Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar, Beck's Odelay
1995 in music, 1995 in British music - Death of Jerry Garcia, Phyllis Hyman, Selena, Burl Ives, Eazy-E, The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Oasis's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Living Colour disbands
1994 in music, 1994 in British music - Death of Kurt Cobain, arrival of Weezer
1993 in music, 1993 in British music - Death of Marian Anderson, Frank Zappa, Dizzy Gillespie
1992 in music, 1992 in British music - Death of John Cage, Yutaka Ozaki, Dr. Dre, The Chronic'
1991 in music, 1991 in British music - Death of Miles Davis, Death of Freddie Mercury, Metallica's Black Album, Nirvana's Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Guns N' Roses's Use Your Illusion I and II
1990 in music, 1990 in British music - Death of Sarah Vaughan, Leonard Bernstein, Arrival of Mariah Carey; Milli Vanilli exposed as a music fraud.

List of 15 most sold albums of the 90s:

Whitney Houston / Various artists The Bodyguard'' - 42 million - 1992
Shania Twain Come on Over - 36 million - 1997
Celine Dion Falling into You - 32 million - 1996
Mariah Carey Music Box) - 32 million - 1993
Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love - 31 million - 1997
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill - 30 million - 1995
Backstreet Boys Millennium - 30 million - 1999
Celine Dion / James Horner / Various artists Titanic - 30 million - 1997
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys - 28 million - 1997
Michael Jackson Dangerous - 27 million - 1991
Nirvana Nevermind - 26 million - 1991
Britney Spears …Baby One More Time - 25 million - 1999
Santana Supernatural - 25 million - 1999
Spice Girls Spice - 23 million - 1996
Madonna The Immaculate Collection - 22 million - 1990

[edit] 1980s

1989 in music, 1989 in British music
1988 in music - Living Colour releases first studio album Vivid; Formation of the Traveling Wilburys, Death of Roy Orbison
1987 in music - Michael Jackson releases the album Bad (album), which is the first and only album to have 5 consecutive #1 hits on the Billboard Top 100.
1986 in music - Metallica releases third album Master of Puppets; Death of Benny Goodman, Richard Manuel, Cliff Burton
1985 in music - Death of Rick Nelson, Live Aid and Farm Aid benefit concerts
1984 in music - Death of Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, release of Bob Marley & The Wailers collection Legend, the best-selling reggae album of all time; Akhnaten by Philip Glass premieres in Stuttgart
1983 in music - Death of Muddy Waters, New Order release "Blue Monday"; Metallica release first studio album Kill Em All, The Police's Synchronicity tour starts
1982 in music - Death of Thelonious Monk, Lightnin' Hopkins, Glenn Gould, The compact disc is introduced; Michael Jackson release Thriller, the best-selling album of all time
1981 in music - MTV first airs; Death of Bob Marley
1980 in music - Joy Division singer Ian Curtis commits suicide,Bon Scott dies, John Lennon is murdered outside the Dakota Building in New York City, accidental death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Death of Tim Hardin

[edit] 1970s

1979 in music - Birth of Norah Jones, Death of Richard Rodgers, Charles Mingus; Sony Walkman goes on sale; The Clash - London Calling, Pink Floyd's The Wall Death of Sid Vicious

Official birth of Rap music with rap group Sugarhill Gang's release of Rapper's Delight. Rap music would later go on to be a multi-billion dollar, multinational industry.

1978 in music - The Who release Who Are You, Death of Keith Moon
1977 in music - The Sex Pistols release Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols; Death of Elvis Presley; Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours
1976 in music - Death of Paul Robeson, Phil Ochs
1975 in music - Death of Dmitri Shostakowich, Soviet composer and pianist, Tim Buckley; Bob Dylan begins Rolling Thunder Revue; Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run; Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks; Iron Maiden was formed; Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti; Patti Smith – Horses.
1974 in music Death of Duke Ellington, Nick Drake
1973 in music - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon , Birth of Ferry Corsten
1972 in music - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
1971 in music - Death of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, Death of Louis Armstrong, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (); Marvin Gaye - What's Going On; Death of Jim Morrison
1970 in music - The Beatles disband; Death of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin; John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

[edit] 1960s

1969 in music - Death of Brian Jones, The Beatles - Let It Be, Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York, Birth of Tiësto. Gavin Bryars, The Sinking of the Titanic; Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline
1968 in music - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album), Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison, The Band - Music from Big Pink
1967 in music - Death of Woody Guthrie, John Coltrane, Otis Redding, The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico; The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced & Axis: Bold as Love, Monterey Pop Festival; Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
1966 in music - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds; The Beatles - Revolver; Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
1965 in music - The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, - Like A Rolling Stone; The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Herman's Hermits, Introducing Herman's Hermits; Death of Edgard Varèse
1964 in music - Death of Sam Cooke, Milton Babbitt, Ensembles For Synthesizer; Bill Lear invents 8-track tape cartridge; Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin', British Invasion begins
1963 in music - First cassette tapes made by Philips , Birth of Paul Oakenfold, Death of Edith Piaf, Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1962 in music - Love Me Do released as a single by the Beatles
1961 in music - Death of Cisco Houston, Moss Hart
1960 in music - Birth of Bono, Death of Oscar Hammerstein II

[edit] 1950s

1959 in music - Death of Billie Holiday, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and Big Bopper, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer and guitarist, Motown Records created; Motown's first hit (Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)"); Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, .
1958 in music Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' Else, Bruce Dickinson, Madonna and Michael Jackson are born.
1957 in music - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet in Liverpool
1956 in music - The first Eurovision Song Contest is held on 24 May, Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show
1955 in music - Death of Charlie Parker, Rock Around The Clock becomes first worldwide #1 Rock and Roll record; Birth of Yo-Yo Ma, Harry James signs with Captial releasing Harry James in Hi-Fi
1954 in music - Elvis Presley releases That's Alright Mama on Sun Records; First Fender Stratocaster produced
1953 in music - Death of Hank Williams, Death of Sergey Prokofiev, Soviet composer and pianist
1952 in music, 1952 in music (UK) - The official UK singles chart is launched; Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) established
1951 in music - Rocket 88 is recorded by Ike Turner and hailed as the first rock 'n' roll song; The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky premieres in Venice
1950 in music - Death of Kurt Weill, Al Jolson

[edit] 1940s

1949 in music - Death of Lead Belly, Richard Strauss, German composer and last great champion of European Romantic classical music, Birth of Bruce Springsteen, Mark Knopfler, RCA Victor introduces 45 RPM records
1948 in music - Columbia Records introduces 331/3 RPM (LP) records. Birth of James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Robert Plant, John Bonham (both of Led Zeppelin).
1947 in music - Birth of Elton John, Bob Weir, Carlos Santana, Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Tracy Nelson, Paul Brady
1946 in music - Birth of John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bassist), Donovan, Linda Ronstadt, Marianne Faithfull, Cher, Debbie Harry, Freddie Mercury, Patti Smith.
1945 in music - Birth of Bob Marley, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Carly Simon, John Fogerty; Death of Jerome Kern; Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten premieres in London
1944 in music - Birth of Diana Ross, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin guitarist), Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Marvin Hamlisch; Disappearance of Glenn Miller
1943 in music - Birth of George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Robbie Robertson, John Denver, Richard Manuel; Death of Lorenz Hart, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, ultra virtuoso pianist and conductor, Formation of Rodgers and Hammerstein
1942 in music - Births of Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Brian Jones, Jerry Garcia, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Rick Danko, Lou Reed, Paul Butterfield, Jerry Jeff Walker, John P. Hammond; Death of George M. Cohan
1941 in music - Les Paul builds one of the first solid-body electric guitars; Birth of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Aaron Neville, Charlie Watts, Neil Diamond, Richie Havens, Wilson Pickett
1940 in music - Birth of Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Phil Ochs, Levon Helm, Smokey Robinson, Rick Nelson, Tim Hardin, Dionne Warwick

[edit] 1930s

1939 in music - Birth of Judy Collins, Marvin Gaye
1938 in music - Birth of Peter Yarrow, Gordon Lightfoot, Death of Robert Johnson, Benny Goodman presents a jazz concert in Carnegie Hall; Death of Dan W. Quinn
1937 in music - Death of George Gershwin, Birth of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Garth Hudson, Tom Paxton, Phillip Glass
1936 in music - Birth of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Wyman, Dave Van Ronk, Steve Reich, Billboard Magazine publishes first U.S. music chart
1935 in music - Birth of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Phillips, La Monte Young, Terry Riley; Audiovox produce first electric bass guitar; Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin premieres in New York
1934 in music - Birth of Leonard Cohen, Jackie Wilson, Deaths of Elgar and Holst
1933 in music - Birth of Willie Nelson
1932 in music - Birth of Johnny Cash, Death of Sousa; Birth of John Williams; Adolph Rickenbacker produces first electric guitar; Bell Labs creates first stereophonic sound recordings
1931 in music - Birth of Sam Cooke
1930 in music - Birth of Ray Charles, Odetta

[edit] 1920s

1929 in music -
1928 in music - The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (libretto) premieres in Berlin; Bo Diddley is born.
1927 in music - Birth of Harry Belafonte
1926 in music - Birth of Chuck Berry; Turandot by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Milan
1925 in music - Birth of B. B. King, Big record labels begin using electric microphones for recording; 78 RPM adopted as standard for records; BBC makes first radio broadcast in stereo; Wozzeck by Alban Berg premieres in Berlin
1924 in music - Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York, Death of Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, italian opera composer
1923 in music - Birth of Hank Williams, First recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and many other African-American artists
1922 in music - Birth of Ali Akbar Khan, The first commercial radio station in the United States begins broadcasting
1921 in music
1920 in music - Birth of Ravi Shankar, Death of Alberto Nepomuceno, brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor; Vladimir Horowitz's first recital

[edit] 1910s

1919 in music - Birth of Pete Seeger, Vladimir Horowitz graduates at the Kiev Conservatory, playing Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto (Rach 3)
1918 in music - Phonograph cylinders become obsolete, - Death of Claude Debussy
1917 in music - Birth of John Lee Hooker, First hit jazz recordings by Original Dixieland Jass Band
1916 in music
1915 in music - Birth of Billie Holiday, Tom Brown starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"; Birth of Frank Sinatra
1914 in music - St. Louis Blues published; first calypso music recordings
1913 in music - Birth of Muddy Waters, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
1912 in music - Birth of Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Cage; Vladimir Horowitz, enters the Kiev Conservatory
1911 in music - Birth of Robert Johnson, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
1910 in music

[edit] 1900s

1909 in music - Elektra by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Sergey Rachmaninoff finishes composing his 3rd Piano Concerto in D Minor, one of the greatest Piano Concerti ever composed and a great challenge to ultra virtuosi
1908 in music
1907 in music
1906 in music - Dmitri Shostakowich, soviet composer and pianist, Victor begins selling the Victrola phonograph player for $15.00
1905 in music - The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár premieres in Vienna; Salome by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
1904 in music - Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Milan
1903 in music
1902 in music - Birth of Richard Rodgers, Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy premieres in Paris
1901 in music - Birth of Louis Armstrong, Death of Giuseppe Verdi, italian composer; Sergey Rachmaninoff plays all movements of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor in a public performance
1900 in music - Tosca by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Rome, Sergey Rachmaninoff plays the 2nd and 3rd movements of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor in a public performance

[edit] 1890s

1899 in music
1898 in music - Birth of George Gershwin, Paul Robeson
1897 in music - Ragtime music becomes popular in the United States; Death of Brahms, Birth of Marian Anderson
1896 in music - Death of Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer and opera composer and Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer and organist
1895 in music - Birth of Oscar Hammerstein II, George W. Johnson becomes first Afro-American recording artist with The Laughing Song
1894 in music - Birth of Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer and ultra virtuoso pianist
1893 in music - Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky, Russian composer
1892 in music - Dan W. Quinn makes first recordings in New York City
1891 in music - Birth of Sergey Prokofiev, Soviet composer and pianist
1890 in music - John Philip Sousa makes first recordings with Columbia Phonograph Company

[edit] 1880s

1889 in music - Effie Stewart records first serious classical music at Edison's Menlo Park; First Phonograph Parlor opens in San Francisco
1888 in music - Birth of Lead Belly, Death of Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and ultra virtuoso pianist, Wax phonograph cylinders commercially marketed; Emile Berliner invents lateral-cut disc records
1887 in music - Birth of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer and guitarist
1886 in music - Franz Liszt dies
1885 in music - Birth of Jerome Kern
1884 in music
1883 in music - Birth of Edgard Varèse, Death of Richard Wagner, German composer
1882 in music - Birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, Parsifal by Richard Wagner premieres in Bayreuth
1881 in music
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[edit] 1870s

1879 in music
1878 in music - Birth of George M. Cohan
1877 in music - Phonograph and phonograph cylinder invented by Thomas Alva Edison
1876 in music - Siegfried and Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner premiere in Bayreuth
1875 in music - Birth of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist; Carmen by Georges Bizet premieres in Paris
1874 in music - Boris Gudonov by Modest Mussorgsky premieres in Saint Petersburg; Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II premieres in Vienna; Richard Wagner concludes Götterdämmerung, finishing the The Ring Cycle
1873 in music Birth of Sergey Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, ultra virtuoso pianist and conductor
1872 in music
1871 in music - Richard Wagner concludes Siegfried; Aida by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Cairo
1870 in music - Die Walküre (the Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich

[edit] 1860s

1869 in music - Death of Hector Berlioz, French composer, Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich
1868 in music - Death of Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner premières in Munich; Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms premières in Bremen; Wiegenlied by Brahms (Brahms' Lullaby)
1867 in music
1866 in music
1865 in music - Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich, marking the beginning of the end for traditional tonality
1864 in music Birth of Richard Strauss, German composer, Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor
1863 in music
1862 in music - Birth of Claude Debussy
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1860 in music - Birth of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor

[edit] 1850s

1859 in music - Faust by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris; Richard Wagner concludes Tristan und Isolde
1858 in music - Birth of Medardo Rosso and Giacomo Puccini, italian opera composer, Orphée aux enfers by Jacques Offenbach, the first operetta, premieres in Paris; Hector Berlioz writes Les Troyens
1857 in music - First public performance of Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor
1856 in music Death of Robert Schuman, German composer and pianist; Richard Wagner, german composer, concludes Die Walküre
1855 in music
1854 in music - Richard Wagner, German composer, concludes Das Rheingold
1853 in music - Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Rome; La traviata by Verdi premieres in Venice
1852 in music
1851 in music - Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Venice
1850 in music - Lohengrin by Richard Wagner premieres in Weimar; Foster's Plantation Melodies by Stephen Foster, including "Camptown Races"

[edit] 1840s

1849 in music - Death of Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist
1848 in music - Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer
1847 in music - "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster published
1846 in music - Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone
1845 in music - Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner premières in Dresden
1844 in music
1843 in music - Minstrel show premieres in United States; The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner premieres in Dresden
1842 in music - "Lisztomania" sweeps Europe
1841 in music - Birth of Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer
1840 in music - Birth of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer; Death of Niccolò Paganini, Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist

[edit] 1830s

1839 in music
1838 in music
1837 in music
1836 in music - Birth of Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer and opera composer, Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer premieres in Paris
1835 in music - Death of Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini, Italian opera composer, Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti premieres in Naples
1834 in music - Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik first published by Robert Schumann
1833 in music - Johannes Brahms born
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[edit] 1820s

1829 in music - Birth of Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer and ultra virtuoso pianist
1828 in music - Franz Schubert dies
1827 in music - Ludwig van Beethoven dies; Winterreise by Franz Schubert
1826 in music - Death of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, German opera composer, String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
1825 in music - Songs from Sir Walter Scott by Franz Schubert, including "Ellens dritter Gesang" (Schubert's Ave Maria)
1824 in music - Birth of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer and organist; Beethoven's 9th Symphony
1823 in music - Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert
1822 in music
1821 in music - Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, premieres in Berlin
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[edit] 1810s

1819 in music - Birth of Clara Schumann, composer and pianist;
1818 in music - Hammerklavier sonate by Ludwig van Beethoven
1817 in music
1816 in music - Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) by Gioacchino Rossini, premieres in Rome
1815 in music
1814 in music
1813 in music Birth of Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and ultra virtuoso pianist, Richard Wagner, German composer and Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
1812 in music
1811 in music - Franz Liszt born
1810 in music - Birth of Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, Fifth Piano Concerto Emperor by Ludwig van Beethoven

[edit] 1800s

1809 in music - Birth of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German composer, pianist, organist and conductor; Death of Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer and pianist
1808 in music - Beethoven completes his 6th Symphony "Pastoral", Beethoven's 5th Symphony
1807 in music - La Vestale by Gaspare Spontini
1806 in music - Fourth Piano Concerto,Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven
1805 in music - Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
1804 in music - Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' by Ludwig van Beethoven
1803 in music - Birth of Hector Berlioz, French composer
1802 in music - Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin are published by Bote and Bock
1801 in music - and Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini, Italian opera composer, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
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[edit] 1790s

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1797 in music - Birth of Franz Schubert, Austrian composer and pianist and Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizecci, Italian opera composer
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1792 in music - Birth of Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
1791 in music - Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute); death of Mozart
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[edit] 1780s

1789 in music - Mozart's Così fan tutte
1788 in music - Death of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer and keyboardist
1787 in music - Mozart's Don Giovanni
1786 in music - Birth of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, German opera composer, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The marriage of Figaro)
1785 in music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his Piano Concerto No. 21
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1782 in music - Birth of Niccolò Paganini, Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist; Death of Johann Christian Bach, German composer, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
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[edit] 1770s

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1777 in music - Il mondo della luna by Joseph Haydn, premieres in Esterháza, Hungary
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1770 in music - Ludwig van Beethoven born

[edit] 1760s

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1764 in music - Death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, french composer and music theorist
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1762 in music - Orfeo ed Euridice by Christophe Willibald Gluck, premieres in Vienna
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1760 in music - La buona figliuola by Niccolo Piccini, premieres in Rome

[edit] 1750s

1759 in music - George Frideric Handel dies
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1757 in music - Death of Domenico Scarlatti, italian composer and harpsichordist
1756 in music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
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1750 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach dies

[edit] 1740s

1749 in music - Bach's Mass in B Minor premiere
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1747 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach finishes his Musical Offering
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1744 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach finishes the Book II from The Well-Tempered Clavier
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1742 in music - première of Messiah by George Frederick Handel, in Dublin
1741 in music - Bach's Goldberg Variations are published
1740 in music - Death of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, italian composer and violinist

[edit] 1730s

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1735 in music - Birth of Johann Christian Bach, German composer
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1733 in music - La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the first opera buffa, premieres in Naples; Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau, premieres in Paris, Death of François Couperin, french composer and harpsichordist
1732 in music - Joseph Haydn born
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[edit] 1720s

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1728 in music - The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, premieres in London
1727 in music - Zadok the Priest (the coronation anthem) by George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach finishes and presents his St Matthew Passion
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1725 in music - publication of Twelve concerti, Op. 8 by Antonio Vivaldi, including the Four Seasons
1724 in music - Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel premières in London, Johann Sebastian Bach presents his St John Passion
1723 in music - Vivaldi composes The Seasons
1722 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach finishes the Book I from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Traité de l'harmonie by Jean-Philippe Rameau causes a revolution in music theory.
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1720 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach presents his Brandenburg Concertos to Christian Ludwig

[edit] 1710s

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1714 in music - Birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, german composer
1713 in music - Death: Arcangelo Corelli, italian composer and violinist
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1711 in music - Rinaldo by Handel, premieres in London, the first all-Italian opera performed in London
1710 in music - Agrippina by Handel, premieres in Venice

[edit] 1700s

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1706 in music - Johann Pachelbel dies
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[edit] 1680s

1689 in music - Dido and Aeneas, opera, by Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate (libretto) performed
1688 in music -
1687 in music - Death of Jean-Baptiste Lully, french composer
1686 in music -
1685 in music - Birth of: Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Häendel (german composers, organists and harpsichordists); Domenico Scarlatti, italian composer and harpsichordist
1684 in music -
1683 in music - Birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau, french composer and music theorist
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[edit] 1670s

1679 in music -
1678 in music - Birth of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, italian composer and violinist
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[edit] 1660s

1669 in music -
1668 in music - Birth of François Couperin, french composer and harpsichordist
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1661 in music -
1660 in music - Birth of Alessandro Scarlatti, italian composer and harpsichordist

[edit] 1650s

1659 in music - Henry Purcell born
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1654 in music -
1653 in music - Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Pachelbel born
1652 in music -
1651 in music - La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli
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[edit] 1640s

1649 in music - Giasone by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice, the first opera to separate aria and recitative
1648 in music -
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1645 in music -
1644 in music - Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice
1643 in music - death of Claudio Monteverdi
1642 in music - L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, premiered in Venice
1641 in music -
1640 in music - Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi, premieres in Venice

[edit] 1630s

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1632 in music - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lully, french composer
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[edit] 1610s

[edit] 1600s

1609 in music -
1608 in music - Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi
1607 in music - La Favola D'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi
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1600 in music - the first oratorio: Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo by Emilio de' Cavalieri

[edit] 1590s

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1597 in music - John Dowland's First Book of Lute Songs; Dafne, the first known opera
1596 in music -
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1594 in music - Orlande de Lassus completes Lagrime di San Pietro (posthumously published); Orlande de Lassus dies
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1591 in music -
1590 in music - Claudio Monteverdi, Il secondo libro de madrigali a 5

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[edit] 1570s

[edit] 1560s

1569 in music -
1568 in music -
1567 in music - Birth of Claudio Monteverdi, italian composer and singer
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1540 in music - Thomas Tallis begins writing his first works for the Latin church service.

[edit] 1530s

1539 in music -
1538 in music - printing of the first protestant hymn-book, Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch; publication of the first book of madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, the first printed book of music by a woman in European history.
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[edit] 1520s

1529 in music -
1525 in music - birth of Palestrina
1522 in music - death of Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – October 30, 1522)
1521 in music - death of Josquin
1520 in music -

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[edit] 1500s

1507 in music -
1502 in music -
1501 in music - publication of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton by Ottaviano Petrucci, the first printed collection of polyphonic music
1500 in music -

[edit] Early history

1499 in music
1490s in music
1360 in music Guillaume de Machaut composes Messe de Nostre Dame, the first complete polyphonic ordinary of the mass
20th century BC in music

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