The Timeline is designed to allow users to view the important events in the development of the symphony in their proper historical context.
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1850-1899
1850: Wagner - Lohengrin, opera
1854: Schumann attempts suicide; dies insane in 1856
1857: Edward Elgar born
1860: Gustav Mahler born
1865: Jean Sibelius born
1868: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1
1873: Ralph Vaughan Williams born
1874: Arnold Schoenberg born
1876: Brahms - Symphony No. 1
1884: Bruckner - Symphony No. 7
1885: Brahms - Symphony No. 4
1889: Franck - Symphony in D minor
1891: Sergei Prokofiev born
1893: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
1899: Sibelius - Symphony No. 1