В 1829 впервые после долгого перерыва публика услышала "Страсти по Матфею" Иоганна Себастьяна Баха. Концерт состоялся в Берлинской певческой академии, за дирижёрским пультом стоял двадцатилетний Феликс Мендельсон. В зале присутствовали поэт Генрих Гейне, философы Георг Вильгельм Гегель и Фридрих Шлейермахер.
Camille Saint-Saëns composed his last piano concerto No. 5 while in Egypt in the winter of 1895-1896. Later, the concerto was called "Egyptian" due to the place where it was written - the city of Luxor, once the residence of the pharaohs and the capital of all of Ancient Egypt.
Carnegie Hall became the second largest concert hall in New York after the Metropolitan Opera. The hall was named after the American steel industrialist, multimillionaire and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
On May 4, 1738, the Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna founded the first "Her Imperial Majesty's Dance School" in the Russian Empire in St. Petersburg. The initiator of its creation was the French dance master Jean-Baptiste Landé. In specially equipped rooms of the Winter Palace, he began training twelve Russian boys and girls.
On May 3, 1917, the premiere of Ernest Bloch's work "Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra " took place at Carnegie Hall in New York.