Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was Premiered on this (7th May) day at 1824.

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In 2001, Beethoven's autograph score of the Ninth Symphony, held by the Berlin State Library, was added to the United Nations World Heritage List, becoming the first musical score to be so honoured.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Riccardo Muti

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1. Things of great beauty were being created even before...

...the invention of electricity or the internal combustion engine. And certainly before the invention of the Internet.

Did you know that Tchaikovsky traveled from Russia to conduct one of his works for the grand opening of Carnegie Hall? Imagine a grand concert hall hosting a conductor from half the world away, all before the invention of the electric light, let alone the airplane. And those concert-goers arriving in their horse-dawn carriages. What a fantastic evening that must have been.

(Just to put modern technology in perspective.)

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2. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Wikipedia

Born: May 7, 1840, Votkinsk, Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky