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songs - events| c. 1100 | France | The often noble troubadours (lyric poets) of northern France and trouvères (poets with a narrative style) of southern France emerge, the subject of their songs usually being courtly love. Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, is the earliest troubadour whose works have survived. | | 1589 | England | The English composer William Byrd publishes Songes of Sundrie Natures, a collection of secular songs. | | 1597 | England | The English composer John Dowland publishes his first Book of Songs and Ayers. | | 1840 | Germany | The German composer Robert Schumann completes his Liederkreis/Song Cycle (Opus 39), settings of poems by the German poet Joseph, Baron von Eichendorff; and Frauenliebe und Leben/Woman's Love and Life (Opus 42). He also completes his Liederkreis/Song Cycle (Opus 24) and Dichterliebe/Poet's Love (Opus 48), both settings of poems by the German poet Heinrich Heine. | | 1881 | USA | Joel Chandler Harris publishes Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings, an anthology of traditional Southern black American slave stories and songs. | | 1904 | | The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completes his song cycle Das Kindertotenlieder/Song of the Death of Children. | | 1909 | | The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completes his Song-Symphony Das Lied von der Erde/The Song of the Earth, set to poems translated from Chinese. | | 1909 | | The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams completes his song cycle, On Wenlock Edge, inspired by the poems of A E Housman, and his Symphony No. 1, A Sea Symphony. | | 1948 | Germany | The German composer Richard Strauss completes his Vier letzte Lieder/Four Last Songs. | | 1952 | Russia | The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky completes his Cantata for voices and chorus, settings of anonymous English poems. | | 1963 | USA | The US composer George Crumb completes his work Night Music for soprano, piano, celesta, and percussion. | | 1964 | Russia | The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky completes his vocal work Elegy for J F K. | | 1969 | UK | The British rock group the Who releases the single ‘Pinball Wizard’ and the album Tommy, the soundtrack of their rock opera of the same name. | | 1984 | UK, Africa | The Band Aid single ‘Do They Know It's Christmas?’, written by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and Midge Ure of Ultravox and recorded by an all-star group of British singers, raises £8 million for famine relief in Africa. It is the best-selling record ever in Britain. |
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