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

Leonardo Vinci

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May 27, 1730: Leonardo Vinci dies of a heart attack or stroke in Naples, Kingdom of Naples under Austrian rule, aged perhaps 34 years.
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Today in Music and History: November 23
1928: The first known performance of orchestral music by Heitor Villa-Lobos (41) in the United States takes place when Leopold Stokowski directs the Philadelphia Orchestra in Danças características africanas in Philadelphia.
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