Composers

Arnold Schoenberg’s “Theme and Variations” was given its first performance on today’s date in 1946 by the Goldman Band.

Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony was premiered on this date in 1912.

On June 25th, 1840, there would be a gala concert in Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church featuring the church choir and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performing a new symphony by Felix Mendelssohn.

June 24, 1901, is the birth date of Harry Partch, an Oakland native. Another Californian, born on this date in 1935, is Colfax native Terry Riley.

Today we remember the Russian composer Reinhold Glière, who died in Moscow on today’s date in 1956.

On today’s date in 1871, Theodore Thomas conducted the first American performance of “Kaiser March,” a brand-new work by Richard Wagner.

In 2007, the American composer Sean Hickey was commissioned by Russian cellist Dmitry Kouzov to write a new concerto, which received its premiere performance on today’s date two years later, in 2009.

On June 20, 1962, Leroy Anderson was at New York’s Manhattan Center, conducting for Decca Records the premiere of his “Clarinet Candy.”

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 -1864) Coronation March, from Le Prophète New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, cond. Sony 46709 Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore Chicago Symphony and Chorus; Sir Georg Solti, cond. London 466 075

Ignace Joseph Pleyel was born near Vienna on today’s date in 1757.