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

Matthias Weckmann

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February 24, 1674: Matthias Weckmann dies in Hamburg, a free city of the Holy Roman Empire, aged possibly 58 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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