On November 23, 1956 – 64 years ago today - a sheet metal worker named Louis Balint was arrested after attacking the King – Elvis Presley – in Toledo, Ohio.

It was on November 16, 1848 – 172 years ago today – that Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) performed his final concert.

We mark the first complete performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on November 9, 1901 - 119 years ago today - in Moscow.

I’m doing something today that I have never done before in Music History Monday and which, I hope, I will never have to do again. November 2 is not a day bereft of musical events. For example, November 2, 1739 saw the birth, in Vienna,

We mark the riot that occurred on October 26, 1958, when Bill Haley and his Comets played a concert at Berlin’s Sportpalast to an audience of some 7000 people.

On October 19, 1814 – 206 years ago today – Franz Schubert composed his first masterwork, the song Gretchen am Spinnrade – “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel” – for solo voice and piano

We mark the birth on October 12, 1872, of the English composer, conductor, folksong collector and teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams in the village of Down Ampney.

We mark the premiere performance on October 5, 1762 – 258 years ago today – of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice at the Burgtheater in Vienna, in the presence of Empress Maria Theresa her very self.

We mark the premiere performance - on September 28, 1918 – 102 years ago today – of Gustav Holst’s The Planets in Queen’s Hall, London, under the baton of Adrian Boult.

On September 21, 1962, the composer Igor Stravinsky returned to Russia for the first time in 48 years: he had been gone since 1914.