“La Clemenza di Tito,” composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia, was premiered on this day in 1791.

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American composer Ellis Kohs’s choral work “Automatic Pistol” was premiered in Washington on this day in 1943.

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Amy Beach, composer of the first symphony (“Gaelic” Symphony) by an American woman, was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, on this day in 1867.

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Franz Liszt conducted the premiere of his “Faust Symphony” in Weimar, Germany, on this day in 1857.

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Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer, was born on this day in 1791.

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Johann Christian Bach, German composer, eventually known as “the London Bach,” was born on this day in 1735.

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