On This Day!

[Joy]

On May 7, 1824 -- First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Vienna's Kaerntnerthor Theater, with Michael Umlauf conducting. Beethoven, who had been deaf for many years, did not realize the audience was applauding at the end of the performance until a chorus member turned him around to see it.

Other notable events On This Day:

1828 -- Composer Antonio Salieri dies in Vienna at age 74.
1833 -- Composer Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany.
1840 -- Birth of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, in Votkinsk.

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[ruudp]

Originally posted by Joy:
On May 7, 1824 -- First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Vienna's Kaerntnerthor Theater, with Michael Umlauf conducting. Beethoven, who had been deaf for many years, did not realize the audience was applauding at the end of the performance until a chorus member turned him around to see it.

Other notable events On This Day:

1828 -- Composer Antonio Salieri dies in Vienna at age 74.
1833 -- Composer Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany.
1840 -- Birth of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, in Votkinsk.

A very interesting day for music indeed,.
p.s shouldn't that have been 1825 for our dear salieri?

[Joy]

A typo! It is indeed 1825!

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