Twentieth Century Music

Every significant event in the history of Western music from the beginning of the century to the present day.

— what the critics thought of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
— who performed the premiere of William Walton’s Cello Concerto
— which opera company was caught in an earthquake
— why Diaghilev dismissed Nijinsky from the Ballets Russes
— where Britten’s War Requiem was first performed
— when Stockhausen’s Kontakte was first heard in public