1901 Premier of Serge Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto in Moscow. with the 28-year old as soloist.
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1950 First Premier of Aaron Copland's Quartet for Piano and Strings. New York Quartet at a Coolidge Festival concert at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Coolidge Foundation.
1897 First Premier of Alexander Scriabin's piano concerto with the composer as soloist in Odessa.
1831 First Premier of Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 with the composer as soloist in Munich.
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1855 First Premier of first version of Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 in B in Danzig.
1937 - Birth of American pianist Ruth Laredo in Detroit. She died in NYC, May 26, 2005.
1934 Birth of Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Engels, Russia. He died in Hamburg, Germany on Aug 3, 1998.
1865 - Premiere of Johannes Brahms' piano work Variations on a Theme of Paganini Op. 35, in Zürich, Switzerland.
1811 - Premiere of Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto No. 5 in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Johann Philip Christian Schultz conducting, Friedrich Schneider, soloist.
1875 Premier of Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44, conducted by Edouard Colonne with the composer as soloist, in Paris.
1824 - Birth of German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher Carl Reineke in Altona (Hamburg), Germany . He died in Leipzig on March 10, 1910. He was the director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra concerts in Leipzig for three decades, and professor of composition and piano at the Conservatorium.
1946 - Birth of American pianist André Watts in Nuremberg, Germany. He currently serves as Professor of Music in Piano as the Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair in Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. In 2014, he was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
1912 - Premiere of Igor Stravinsky's four-hand piano version of the score for The Rite of Spring. Soloists were Claude Debussy and Stravinsky!
1881 - The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, MA. Shown is a Chase & Baker player piano, Buffalo, NY, USA, circa 1885.
