Music Events:

• 1733 - Premiere of Pergolesi's opera "La serva padrona" (The Maid as Mistress), in Naples at the Teatro San Bartolomeo.


• 1840 - Premiere of Verdi's opera "Un giorno di regno" (King for a Day), in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala


• 1857 - Premiere of Liszt's "A Faust Symphony," in Weimar, conducted by the composer.


• 1913 - Premiere of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 (first version), at Pavlovsk, conducted by A.P. Aslanov with the composer as soloist.


• 1927 - Premiere of Gershwin's musical "Strike Up the Band," at the Shubert Theater in Philadelphia; This show included the classic Gershwin songs "Strike Up the Band" and "The Man I Love"


• 1932 - Premiere of Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, at the Venice Festival, with the composer and Jacques Février as soloists.


• 1939 - Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven records Lester Leaps In featuring tenor saxophonist Lester Young


• 1940 - Duke Ellington records In a Mellotone


• 1942 - Premiere of Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92, in Moscow, by the Beethoven Quartet; The start of the performance was delayed due to a German air raid.


• 1950 - Premiere of Arthur Benjamin's Piano Concerto, in Sydney, Australia, with the composer as soloist.


• 1964 - The La Scala Opera begins a month-long residency at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with a performance of Puccini's "Turandot." La Scala is the first European opera company to visit the Soviet Union.


• 1980 - Premiere of Glass' opera "Satyagraha," by the Netherlands Opera in Rotterdam, Christopher Keene conducting.


• 2000 - Premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's "Las Pasión Según San Marcos" (St. Matthew Passion) in Stuttgart, Germany, by the orchestra of International Bach Academy and the Schola Cantorum de Caracas, Maria Guinand, conducting; This work was one of four passion settings commissioned by the International Bach Academy to honor the 250th anniversary of Bach's death in the year 2000.