Late Romanticism

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Late Romanticism
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Key Events

• 1865 Wagner composes Tristan und Isolde
• 1866
• Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
• Mary Baker Eddy founds the Christian Science
  movement
  
• Mendels laws of inheritance
• 1867
• Wagners Die Meistersinger
• Marxs Das Kapital

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Key Events

• 1869
• Wagners Das Rheingold
• Suez Canal opens
• 1870
• Franco-Prussian War begins
• Papal infallibility declared
• Charles Dickens dies

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Key Events

• 1871
• Verdis Aida staged in Cairo
• Bruckner plays six inaugurial recitals on the
  Royal Albert Hall organ
  
• Franco-Prussian War ends
• German Empire declared
• 1872
• Monets painting Impression Sunrise exhibited
• The term Impressionism coined

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Key Events

• 1873
• Sergei Rachmaninov born
• Sholes and Glidden design the first commercial
  typewriter
  
• 1874
• Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Ives and Gustav Holst
  born
  
• 1875
• Bizet composes Carmen

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Key Events

• 1876
• Wagners Ring cycle performed at Bayreuth
• Bell invents the telephone
• 1877
• Mussorgskys Songs and Dances of Death composed
• Edison invents the phonograph
• 1878
• Brahms composed the Violin Concerto

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Key Events

• 1879
• Tchaikovsky composes Eugene Onegin
• Zulu Wars in South Africa
• 1881
• Pasteur develops immunization against anthrax
• 1882
• Igor Stravinsky born
• Wagner composes Parsifal
• Koch discovers tuberculosis bacillus

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Key Events

• 1883
• Wagner dies
• Royal College of Music (London) founded
• 1885
• Gilbert and Sullivan compose The Mikado
• Benz builds the first car
• 1886
• Statue of Liberty erected in USA

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Key Events

• 1887
• Verdi composes Otello
• Goodwin invents celluloid
• 1888
• Rimsky-Korsakov composes Scheherezade
• George Eastman produces his first camera
• 1889
• Mahler composes his first symphony
• Eiffel Tower built in Paris

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Key Events

• 1890
• Van Gogh dies
• 1893
• Verdi composes Falstaff
• Dvorak composes his New World Symphony
• 1894
• Debussy composes Prelude to the afternoon of a
  Faune