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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1900-1950
1906: Dmitri Shostakovich born
1907: Mahler - Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a Thousand'
1908: Elgar - Symphony No. 1
1910: Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 1 'Sea Symphony'
1913: Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
1917: Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 'Classical'
1920: Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 'London Symphony'
1924: Schoenberg - 'Erwartung' for soprano and orchestra
1925: Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1
1933: Prokofiev returns to the USSR
1935: Gershwin - Porgy and Bess, opera
1937: Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
1941: Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad'
1943: Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5
1948: Schoenberg - 'A Survivor from Warsaw', for narrator and orchestra