Composers

On today’s date in 2013, Ravinia was the venue for world-premiere performances of several new art songs, including “Twilight Butterfly,” by the American composer Augusta Read Thomas.

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The first performance of Bernstein’s concert suite from "On the Waterfront"took place at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood on today's date in 1954.

On today's date, Wolfgang Mozart completed two of his most famous works: on August 10th, 1787, the Serenade known as "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," and, on the same day exactly 10 years later, Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Major.

A new comic opera by the French composer Hector Berlioz, titled “Beatrice and Benedict”

The French composer and concert pianist Cecile Chaminade was born in Paris on this date in 1857.

On today’s date in 1829, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn and his friend, Karl Klingemann, were on the North Sea bound for Glasgow.

On today's date in 1946, Leonard Bernstein conducted the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera, "Peter Grimes," at the Tanglewood Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts.

On today's date in 1978, the citizens of Parowan resolved to name a local mountain Mt. Messiaen in honor of the French composer, who had spent a month in Utah five years earlier while working on his symphonic suite titled "From the Canyons to the Stars."

Today marks the birthday of American composer David Raksin, born in 1912 in Philadelphia.