A Nineteeth-Century Musical Chronicle (1800-1899)

1770:

Birth of Beethoven (German composer)

1797:

Birth of Franz Schubert (Austrian composer)

1800:

Beethoven’s (German Composer) String Quartets

1802:

Beethoven wrote his “Heiligenstadt Testament”

Beethoven Symphony 2

1803:

Birth of Hector Berlioz (French composer)

Beethoven Symphony 3 Eroica

1804:

Birth of Glinka (Russian composer)

Beethoven, upon hearing Napoleon crowned himself emperor, tears up the dedication of his Eroica Symphony in a fit of rage

Beethoven Triple Concerto

1805:

Beethoven Fidelio

1806:

Beethoven Symphony 4

1807:

Beethoven Symphony 5

1808:

Beethoven Symphony 6

1809:

Birth of Mendelssohn (German composer)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor

1810:

Birth of Chopin (Poland pianist and composer) and Robert Schumann (German composer)

Beethoven Egmont Overture

1811:

Birth of Liszt (Hungary pianist and composer)

1812:

Beethoven meets Goethe

Beethoven Symphony 7

1813:

Birth of Richard Wagner (German composer)

Schubert Symphony 1

1814:

Beethoven Fidelio Overture

1815:

Berlioz learns to compose

Schubert Symphony 2 and 3

1816:

Schubert Symphony 4 Tragic and Schubert Symphony 5

1817:

Nothing much

1818:

Schubert Symphony 6

1819:

Birth of Clara Schumann (German pianist)

Schubert wanted to set music to Goethe’s poems but he disapproved

1820:

Berlioz studies medicine as insisted by his father LOLOL

Mendelssohn meets Goethe

Schubert Symphony 7 (sketches only)

1822:

Birth of Cesar Franck (French composer)

Berlioz abandons medicine and studied music

Schubert met Beethoven

Schubert Symphony 8 Unfinished

1823:

Beethoven Symphony 9 Choral

1824:

Birth of Anton Bruckner (Austrian composer)

Birth of Smetana (Czech composer)

Birth of Eduard Hanslick (Austrian critic)

Mendelssohn Symphony 1

1825:

Glinka Symphony in Bb major

1826:

Berlioz enters Paris Conservatory and fails in his attempt at the Prix de Rome

Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture

1827:

Death of Beethoven

Berlioz falls in love with Henrietta Smithson and again fails to win Prix de Rome

1828:

Hector Berlioz finally wins second prize in the Prix de Rome competition

Wagner hears his first Beethoven composition

Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C The Great

Death of Schubert

1829:

Birth of Anton Rubinstein (Russian composer)

1830:

Liszt meets Chopin, Berlioz, Paganini

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Berlioz and Liszt first met in Paris on December 4, 1830, the day before the first performance of Symphonie fantastique. Berlioz introduced Liszt to Goethe’s Faust in the translation by Gérard de Nerval: he had already written his Eight scenes from Faust. This meeting was later to lead to the conception of two of the most important works of the 19th Century, Berlioz’ Damnation of Faust, which he dedicated to Liszt, and Liszt’s Faust Symphony, which he dedicated to Berlioz.

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

1831:

Mendelssohn meets Berlioz in Italy and Liszt in Paris

1832:

Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 Reformation

Mendelssohn Cam Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture

1833:

Birth of Johanne Brahms (German composer)

Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 Italian

Mendelssohn Melusine Overture

1834:

Berlioz Harold in Italy

1835:

Birth of Saint-Saens (French composer)

1836:

Nothing much

1837:

Birth of Balakirev (Russian composer)

Robert Schumann gets engaged to Clara Schumann

1838:

Birth of Bizet (French composer)

Mendelssohn gives the premiere of Schubert’s newly discovered Great C Symphony

Schumann responsible for the finding of Schubert’s Ninth Symphony

Paganini pays Berlioz for his Harold in Italy composition

1839:

Birth of Modest Mussorgsky (Russian composer)

Berlioz Romeo and Juliet Dramatic Symphony

Mendelssohn Ruy Blas Overture

1840:

Birth of Tchaikovsky (Russian composer)

Death of Paganini (Italian violinist)

Mendelssohn Symphony 2 Hymn of Priase

Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben

1841:

Birth of Dvorak (Bohemian composer)

Schumann Symphony 1 Spring and Schumann Symphony 4

1842:

Mendelssohn Symphony 3 Scottish

1843: nothing much

1844:

Birth of Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian composer)

1845:

Nothing much

1846:

Berlioz The Damnation of Faust

Schumann Symphony 2

1847:

Birth of Joseph Rubinstein (Russian pianist)

Death of Mendelssohn

1848:

Glinka Kamarinskaya

Schumann Manfred Symphony

1849:

Liszt Mountain Symphony (tone poem)

1850:

Schumann Symphony 3 Rhenish

1851:

Liszt Mazeppa (tone poem)

1852 and 1853:

nothing much

1854:

Liszt Les Preludes (tone poem)

Liszt Faust Symphony

Liszt Tasso (tone poem)

1855:

Nothing much

1856:

Liszt Dante Symphony

Wagner Die Walkure (The Valkyrie)

1857:

Liszt Die Ideale (tone poem)

Liszt The battle of the Huns (tone poem)

1858:

Liszt Hamlet (tone poem)

1859:

Wagner Tristan and Isolde (opera)

1860:

Birth of Gustav Mahler (Austrian composer)

1861 and 1862 and 1863:

Nothing much

1864:

Birth of Richard Strauss (German composer)

1865:

Dvorak Symphony 1 and 2

1866:

Bruckner Symphony 1 and 2

Tchaikovsky symphony 1

1867:

Berlioz meets Balakirev and Tchaikovsky

1868:

Nothing much

1869:

Wagner Siegfried (opera)

1870 and 1871:

Nothing much

1872:

Tchaikovsky Symphony 2

Dvorak Symphony 3 (people are unsure though)

1873:

Nothing much

1874:

Dvorak Symphony 4

Smetana Vysehrad (No 1. Of Ma Vlast)

The Moldau (No 2. Of Ma Vlast)

Sarka (No 3. Of Ma Vlast)

1875:Dvorak Symphony 5

Smetana From Bohemia’s Wood and Meadows (No. 4 Of Ma Vlast)

Tchaikovsky Symphony 3

1876:

Brahms Symphony 1 (omg finally)

1877:

Brahms Symphony 2

Tchaikovsky Symphony 4

1878:

Smetana Tabor (No.5 OF Ma Vlast)

1879:

Smetana Bedrich (No. 6 of Ma Vlast)

1880:

Brahms Academic Festival Overture

Dvorak Symphony 6

1881:

Brahms Tragic Overture

1882:

Nothing much

1883:

Brahms Symphony 3

1884:

Nothing much

1885:

Brahms Symphony 4

Dvorak Symphony 7

1886:

Nothing much

1887:

Bruckner Symphony 8

1888:

Mahler Symphony 1 Titan

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Richard Strauss Don Juan

Tchaikovsky Symphony 5

1889:

Dvorak Symphony 8

1890-1892:

Nothing much

1893:

Dvorak Symphony 9 From the New World

Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 Pathetique

1894:

Mahler Symphony 2 Resurrection

Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

1895:

Dvorak The Water-Sprite (symphonic poem)

The Midday Witch/ Noonday Witch (symphonic poem)

The Golden Spinning Wheel (symphonic poem)

The Wood Dove (Symphonic poem)

Mahler Symphony 3

Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

1896:

Strauss Don Quixote

1897:

Nothing much

1898:

Strauss Ein Heldenleben (Symphonic poem)

1899:

Mahler Symphony 4