Classical Music
Explore Classical Music on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (1808)
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premieres (1913)
- Handel's Messiah (1742)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1725)
- Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (1892)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882)
- George Frideric Handel (1685)
- Frédéric Chopin (1810)
- Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (1877)
- Richard Wagner (1813)
- Bach's St Matthew Passion (1727)
- Mozart's Requiem (unfinished) (1791)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) (1805)
- Mozart's The Magic Flute premieres (1791)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
- Gregorian chant codified (800)
- Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Holst's The Planets (1918)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres (1786)
- Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (1721)
- Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung premieres (1876)
- Chopin's Nocturnes published (1832)