| 1604 | England | The English composer John Dowland publishes Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, works for lute, viols, and violins. |
| 1779 | Italy, UK | The Italian-born British composer Muzio Clementi publishes his early keyboard sonatas (Opus 2). |
| 1799 | Germany | The German composer Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Piano Sonata No. 8 (Opus 13), the Pathétique. |
| 1805 | Germany | The German composer Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Piano Sonata No. 23 (Opus 57), the Appassionata and his overture Leonora No. 1 (Opus 138). |
| 1811 | Germany | The German composer Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Piano Trio in B flat (Opus 97), the Archduke and his overture and incidental music for August von Kotzebue's play König Stephan/King Stephen, written for the opening night of the German Theatre in Budapest in 1812. |
| 1824 | Austria | The Austrian composer Franz Schubert completes his String Quartets No. 13 (D 804) and No. 14 (D 810), Der Tot und das Mädchen/Death and the Maiden. |
| 1846 | France | The French composer Hector Berlioz completes his dramatic cantata La Damnation de Faust/The Damnation of Faust (Opus 24), based on Goethe's play Faust, written in 1808. Berlioz began work on this piece in 1828. |
| 1869 | Germany | The German composer Johannes Brahms completes the last of his Ungarische Tänze/Hungarian Dances for piano and his Liebesliederwalzer/Love Song Waltzes for piano and voices (Opus 52). |
| 1874 | Russia, France | The Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky completes his piano work Pictures at an Exhibition. This is orchestrated by several composers, notably by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1922. |
| 1885 | Hungary | The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt completes his piano work Mephistowaltzer/Mephisto Waltz No. 4 and the last of his 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies. The first was completed in 1846. |
| 1888 | France | The French composer Erik Satie completes his three piano pieces Gymnopédies. The first and third are orchestrated by the French composer Claude Debussy in 1897. |
| 1899 | France | The French composer Maurice Ravel completes his piano work Pavane pour une infante défunte/Pavan for a Dead Infanta, which he orchestrates in 1910. |
| 1901 | | The Russian composer Sergey Rachmaninov completes his Piano Concerto No. 2. |
| 1903 | | The French composer Maurice Ravel completes his String Quartet in F. |
| 1905 | | The French composer Claude Debussy completes his piano work Images I and his orchestral work La Mer/The Sea. |
| 1908 | | The French composer Claude Debussy completes his six piano pieces Children's Corner, which includes Golliwog's Cake Walk. |
| 1910 | | The Austrian composer Alban Berg completes his String Quartet (Opus 3). |
| 1917 | | The French composer Maurice Ravel completes his piano work Le Tombeau de Couperin/The Tomb of Couperin, which he orchestrates in 1919. |
| 1921 | | The English composer William Walton completes his ‘entertainment’ Façade for voices and chamber ensemble. It consists of settings of poems by the English writer Edith Sitwell. |
| 1938 | Austria | The Austrian composer Anton Webern completes his String Quartet, Opus 28. |
| 1941 | France | The French composer Olivier Messiaen completes his Quartet for the End of Time, written while he is in a German prisoner-of-war camp. |
| 1952 | USA | The US composer John Cage creates 4' 33", a piece for piano that consist of a pianist sitting silently at a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. |
| 1956 | Russia | The Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich completes his String Quartet No. 6. |
| 1967 | England | The English composer Benjamin Britten completes his Cello Suite No. 2. |
| 1968 | Russia | The Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich completes his String Quartet No. 12. |
