A Nineteeth-Century Musical Chronicle (1800-1899)

1770:
Birth of Beethoven (German composer)
1797:
Birth of Franz Schubert (Austrian composer)
1800:
Beethovens (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 Goethes 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 Nights 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 Goethes Faust in the translation by Grard 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 Liszts 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 Schuberts newly discovered Great C Symphony
Schumann responsible for the finding of Schuberts 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 Bohemias 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 Eulenspiegels 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