Events in Music Music Premiere Oct 20 Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B premieres Composer Franz Schubert Birthdays in Music Oct 11 John Parsons Beach, American composer, born in Gloversville, New York (d. 1953) Oct 20 Josephine McGill, American composer and folksong collector, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1919) Oct 24 Pavel Chesnokov, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia (d. 1944) Deaths in Music Oct 14 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, French composer, dies at 68 Oct 28 Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45 1876 Music History by Year 1878 1877 in Music History Thomas Edison's Phonograph November 21, 1877
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