Composition
History of Russia
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| | 1842 | Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich |  |
| Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, father of modern Russian music, composes opera, "A Life for the Czar" |
| 1861 | Mussorgsky, Modest |  |
| Composes, "Intermezzo In Modo Classico" |
| 1869 | Mussorgsky, Modest |  |
| Composition of, "Boris Godunov" |
| 1870 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| Composes, "Romeo & Juliet" |
| 1874 | Mussorgsky, Modest |  |
| Composes, "Pictures At An Exhibition" |
| 1877 | Mussorgsky, Modest |  |
| Composes, "Songs & Dances Of Death" |
| 1877 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| 3rd Mar Moscow 1st performance of, "Swan Lake" staged by the Russian Imperial Ballet in Moscow |
| 1879 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| Composes, "Eugene Onegin" |
| 1886 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| Composes, "Manfred Symphony" |
| 1888 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| Composes, "Symphony No 5" |
| 1890 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| 15th Jan St Petersburg 1st performance of, "Sleeping Beauty" |
| 1892 | Tchaikovsky, Peter |  |
| Composes, "The Nutcracker" |
| 1901 | Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich |  |
| Composes, "Piano Concerto No 2" |
| 1909 | Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich |  |
| Composes, "Piano Concerto No 3" |
| Composes, "The Island of Death" |
| 1909 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Commissioned to write, "The Firebird" |
| 1910 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Composes, "The Firebird", completes music for the ballet |
| 1911 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Piano Concerto No 1", awarded Anton Rubenstein Prize |
| 1911 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Composes, "Petrushka", completes music for the ballet |
| 1913 | Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich |  |
| Composes, "The Bells" |
| 1913 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| 29th May Paris 1st performance of, "The Rite of Spring" |
| 29th May Composes, "The Rite of Spring" |
| 1914 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "The Ugly Duckling" |
| 1915 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Scythian Suite" |
| 1917 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Symphony No 1" |
| 1919 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Love for Three Oranges" |
| 1920 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Composes, "Pulcinella" |
| 1923 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Composes, "Les Noces" |
| 1925 | Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich |  |
| Moscow Completion of the "First Symphony" |
| 1930 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Composes, "Symphony of the Psalms" |
| 1935 | Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich |  |
| Moscow Composes, "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" |
| 1936 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Peter & the Wolf" |
| 1937 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "20th Anniversary of the October Revolution" |
| 1937 | Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich |  |
| Moscow Composes, "The Fifth Symphony" |
| 1938 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Alexander Nevsky" |
| Composes, "Romeo & Juliet" |
| 1941 | Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich |  |
| Composes, "Symponic Dances" |
| 1941 | Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich |  |
| Composes, "The Seventh Symphony", about the German siege of Leningrad |
| 1942 | Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich |  |
| 11th Aug Leningrad The "Leningrad Symphony" is premiered by a half-starved orchestra |
| 1944 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Ivan the Terrible" |
| Composes, "Symphony No 5" |
| 1945 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Cindarella" |
| 1946 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "The Duenna" |
| 1947 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Symphony No 6" |
| 1948 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Story of a Real Man" |
| 1952 | Prokofiev, Sergei |  |
| Composes, "Symphony No 7" |
| Composes, "War & Peace" |
| 1955 | Stravinsky, Igor |  |
| Composes, "Canticum Sacrum" |
| 1969 | Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich |  |
| Composes, "Symphony No 14" |
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