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Nana @cko236.bsky.social · Feb 11
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.”

- Confucius
#Confucius #perseverance
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📆December 12, 1792 In #Vienna, Ludwig van #Beethoven (22 Yr old) receives his first #lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph #Haydn (60 Yr old)

#Music #Composition
#LudwigvanBeethoven #FranzJosephHayden
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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📆December 11, 1882 #Boston's #BijouTheatre, the first #Americanplayhous lit exclusively by #electricity, holds its first performance: W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "Iolanthe"

#Opera #Iolanthe
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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📆December 10, 1854 Hector Berlioz premieres his #oratorio #L'enfanceduChrist (The Childhood of Christ), #conducting #musicians and #soloists from the #Opéra-Comique, at the #SalleHerz, Paris

#Opera #HectorBerlioz
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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📆December 9, 1905 Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" premieres in #Dresden

#Opera #RichardStrauss
#Salome
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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📆December 9, 1842 Mikhail Glinka's opera "Russlan and Ludmilla" premieres at the #ImperialBolshoiKamennyTheatre, in St. Petersburg, Russia

#Opera #MikhailGlinka
#RusslanandLudmilla
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”

#Buddha
#Mind #Powerful #Filter
#PositiveThoughts
#Life #Change
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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📆December 8, 1849 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in #Naples

#Opera #Verdi
#LuisaMiller
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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📆December 8, 1813 Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres in #Vienna with Beethoven conducting

#Beethoven #7thSymphony
#Conductor
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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📆December 7, 1732 The Royal Opera House opens at #CoventGarden, London, England

#RoyalOperaHouse
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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📆December 7, 1889 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera “The Gondoliers” premieres at the #SavoyTheatre, #London

#Opera #TheGondoliers #Composer #WSGilbert #Dramatist #ArthurSullivan
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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📆December 6, 1841 Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor #premieres

#Symphony #RobertSchumann
#ClassicMusicHistory
#MusicHistory
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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📆December 6, 1846 Hector Berlioz's dramatic #oratorio "La Damnation de Faust" #premieres, conducted by the composer at the #OpéraComique, #Paris

#Opera #LaDamnationFaust#HectorBerlioz #Composer #Conductor
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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📆December 5, 1890 Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens #premieres in #Karlsruhe, #Germany

#Opera #LesTroyens #HectorBerlioz
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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📆December 5, 1602 #GiulioCaccini and #OttarioRinuccini's opera Euridice #premieres at the #PittiPalace, in #Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany

#Opera #Euridice
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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📆December 4, 1843 Robert Schumann's oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri #premieres in #Leipzig

#Opera #RobertSchumann #Oratorio
#ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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📆December 3, 1954 William Walton's opera Troilus & Cressida #premieres in #London

#Opera #TroilusCressida #WilliamWalton
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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📆December 2,
1877 Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) #premieres at the #DucalTheatre, #Weimar

#Opera #SaintSaëns
#SamsonandDelilah
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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📆December 2, 1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Favorita #premieres in #Paris

#Opera #Donizetti #LaFavorita
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📆December 1, 1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, #debuts as a pianist in #Vienna

#Pianist #Liszt #Vienna
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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📆December 1, 1951 Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd #premieres in #London

#Opera #BillyBudd #Britten
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📆Nov 30, 1885 “Le Cid" is an #opera composed by Jules #Massenet, premiered at the #ParisOpéra. The opera is based on the play by #PierreCorneille and features a French #libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery, Louis Gallet, and Édouard Blau.

#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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📆November 29, 1825 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) is the first opera #performed in #Italian in the US, staged at NYC's Park Theater

#Opera #Rossini
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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📆November 28, 1909 Sergei #Rachmaninoff's #PianoConcerto No. 3, one of the genre's most difficult, #premieres at the New Theatre in NYC with the #composer as #soloist and the #NYSymphony Society conducted by #WalterDamrosch

#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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📆November 27, 1903 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Die Neugierigen Frauen #premieres in #Munich, Germany

#Opera #Ferrari #DieNeugierigenFrauen
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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📆November 26, 1908 Philipp Mohler, #German composer, born in #Kaiserslautern. (Died Sept11, 1982 Frankfurt, Germany)

#Mohler #composer
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM