A CHRONOLOGICAL VIEW OF WESTERN MUSIC HISTORY IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD EVENTS

Joseph Schillinger

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August 31, 1895: Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger is born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (Kharkiv, Ukraine), the only child of Moses Schillinger and Anna Gielgur.
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November 13, 1928: Joseph Schillinger (33) arrives in the United States from the Soviet Union.
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November 28, 1929: The First Airphonic Suite for Thereminovox and orchestra by Joseph Schillinger (34) is performed for the first time, in Cleveland with Lev Sergeyevich Termen (Leon Theremin) (33) as soloist.
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September 28, 1938: At a gallery opening on West 57th Street in New York, Joseph Schillinger (43) meets his future wife, Frances Singer.
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November 12, 1938: Joseph Schillinger marries his second wife, Frances Singer, a dancer and model, in New York.
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March 23, 1943: Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger dies of cancer at his home at 875 Fifth Avenue in New York, aged 47 years, six months, and 23 days.
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March 23, 1946: The Schillinger System of Musical Composition by Joseph Schillinger is published by Carl Fischer in New York, on the third anniversary the author's death.