CROSS CURRENTS: TIMELINE
1874 - Arnold Schoenberg born Vienna, Austria (innovator of 12 tone music)
1887 - Nadia Boulanger born Paris
1903 - Boris Blacher born Manchuria, China
1910 - Aloys Fleischmann born Munich, Germany
1911 - Frederick May born Dublin, Ireland
1912 - John Cage born L.A. (USA)
1913 - Witold Lutoslawski born Warsaw, Poland
1913 - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring - ballet and orchestral work premieres in Paris
1916 - Milton Babbitt born, Philadelphia, (USA)
1917 - Brian Boydell born Dublin, Ireland
1918 - A.J. Potter born, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1923 - Gyorgy Ligeti born Transylvania, Romania
1925 - Pierre Boulez born, Montbrison, France
1926 - Morton Feldman born Brooklyn, New York, USA
1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen born - Cologne, Germany
1931 - Maurizio Kagel born - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1931 - Seán Ó Riada born Cork
1932 - John Kinsella born Dublin
1933 - Seóirse Bodley born Dublin
1933 - Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki born ( Poland)
1936 - Steve Reich born New York (USA)
1937 - Philip Glass born Baltimore (USA)
1939 - Louis Andriessen born (Netherlands)
1942 - Meredith Monk born New York (USA)
1944 - Frank Corcoran born Tipperary
1946 - Jane O’Leary born (USA)
1948 - RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra was founded
1948 - RTÉ Concert Orchestra founded
1949 - Roger Doyle born Dublin
1951 - Arts Council of Ireland established
1951 - John Buckley - born Limerick
1951 - Schoenberg, death L.A. (USA)
1952 - Bodley - Music for Strings
1952 - Gerald Barry born Clare
1953 - Raymond Deane born Tuam, Co. Galway
1957 - Ó Riada - Nomos No. 1: Hercules Dux Ferrariae
1958- Bodley - Sonata
1959 - Ó Riada - Mise Eire
1959-64 Stockhausen ‘Kontakte’ released, subtitled "für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug" (for electronic sounds, piano and drums).
1965 - Kinsella - Two Pieces for String Orchestra
1965 - The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
1966 - 1916 50th Anniversary
1966 - Boydell’s A Terrible Beauty is Born, written to mark the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising is premiered
1966 - BEATLES Revolver Album released
1967 - Bodley Configurations
1967- Pierre Henry - Psyche Rock
1967 - Stockhausen - Hymnen premieres, Cologne (work later elaborated and premiered ‘69)
1968 - BEATLES - Revolution No 9
1968 - Doyle composes Piano Suite
1969 - 1st Dublin Festival of Twentieth Century Music, ran until 1986 (held every 2 years)
1969 - Stockhausen - Hymnen premieres
1969 - Frank Corcoran studies with Blacher, Berlin
1969 - Tax exemption introduced for creative artists living in Ireland introduced
1970 - Donnacha Dennehy born Dublin
1970 - Doyle - Obstinato
1971 - Ó Riada death London (aged 40)
1972 - Barry - Lessness performed by RTÉ Symphony Orchestra (1st Beckett piece )
1972 - Bodley - The Narrow Road to the Deep North (premiered Belfast)
1972 - Association of Irish Composers founded
1972 - Jane O’Leary moves to Galway, Ireland
1972 - Deane Sphinxes
1973 - Deane Embers
1973- Deane Linoi
1973 - Kinsella A Selected Life - O Riada tribute based on poems by Thomas Kinsella
1973 - 83 Lutoslawski - Symphony No 3
1973 - Boulez - Piano Sonata no 1
1973 - Corcoran - Nine Medieval Irish Epigrams
1974 - Gerald Barry studies organ and composition in the Netherlands with Piet Kay and Peter Staat
1974 - Jennifer Walshe born Dublin
1974 - Frank Corcoran - Three Pieces for Orchestra
1974 - Steve Reich begins writing Music for 18 Musicians
1974 - Jane O’Leary composes Begin
1975 - Blacher death - Berlin, Germany
1975 - Bodley - A Small White Cloud Drifts over Ireland
1975 - Roger Doyle’s first album Oizzo No released
1975 - Gerald Barry studies in Germany; initially with Stockhausen in Berlin
1976 - Reich Music for 18 Musicians premiere in New York
1976 - Begin Jane O'Leary work performed at Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music
1976 - A Small White Cloud Drifts over Ireland premiered at Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music
1976 - 1980 Gerald Barry studies with Kagel, Cologne
1976 - Raymond Deane moves to Berlin, studies with Stockhausen
1976 - Concorde new music ensemble established by Jane O’Leary
1976 - Doyle - composes Thalia
1977 - David Flynn born Dublin
1977 - Gerald Barry - Things That Gain By Being Painted
1977 - John Buckley - Taller Than Roman Spears
1978 - Frank Corcoran - Collection One - 1st LP published
1979 - Kinsella The Wayfarer - Rhapsody on a Poem by Pearse
1978 - Roger Doyle’s second album, Thalia, released on CBS records
1978 - Frank Corcoran releases Collection One, an album of chamber pieces
1979 - Linda Buckley born, Kinsale, Co Cork
1979 - Boulanger death, Paris
1979 - Gerald Barry '___________' composed
1980 - A. J. Potter death
1980 - Corcoran Balthazar's Dream composed
1981 - National Concert Hall opens - Bodley commission Symphony No 3
1981 - Aosdána - lrish Association of Artists established by the Arts Council
1981 - Gerald Barry returns to Dublin and begins writing opera The Intelligence Park
1981 - Frank Corcoran - Symphony No 1 (Symphonies of Symphonies of Wind Instruments) premiered in Vienna (1st Irish composer )
1981 - Corcoran - Symphony No. 2 composed
1981 - Buckley studies briefly with John Cage
1982 - Bodley becomes founding member of Aosdana and is made Saoi in 2008
1981-82 - Deane - Enchaînement for orchestra composed
1983 - Garrett Sholdice born Dublin
1983 - John Kinsella becomes Head of Music in RTÉ (succeeding Gerard Victory)
1983 - John Buckley Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin composed
1983 - John Buckley founds the Ennis Composition Summer School in Co. Clare
1984 - Amanda Feery born Offaly
1985 - Frederick May death
1985 - RTÉ Philharmonic Choir founded
1985 - Sept - Kinsella Symphony No 1 premiered at the NCH
1986 - Contemporary Music Centre established by the Arts Council
1986 - Michael Gallen born Monaghan
1987 - Morton Feldman death, Buffalo, New York USA
1987 - RTÉ Cór na nÓg founded
1988 - Gerald Barry’s first opera The Intelligence Park completed (performed in 1990)
1988 - Gerald Barry’s Chevaux-De-Frise premiered at the BBC Proms
1988 - John Kinsella resigns from Head of Music at RTÉ
1989 - Roger Doyle begins composing his Babel Project
1989-90 - Raymond Deane After Pieces composed
1992 - Aloys Fleischmann death Cork, Ireland
1992 - John Cage death - New York
1992 - Donnacha Dennehy moves to US to study composition at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1994 - Lutoslawski death, Warsaw, Poland
1995 - Contempo Quartet founded (Bucharest)
1995 - Postgraduate music and media technologies programme begins at Trinity College, Dublin
1997 - Donnacha Dennehy, Andrew Synnott and Michael Seaver established Crash Ensemble and Crash Ensemble holds its first concert
1999 - RTÉ lyric fm launched (May 1)
1999 - Roger Doyle completes his Babel Project
2000 - RTÉ lyric fm host Gerald Barry Festival
2000 - Brian Boydell death, Dublin, Ireland
2000 - Jennifer Walshe wins the Kranichstein Music Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Course with piece ‘As Mo Cheann’
2001 - Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) is founded in Belfast
2002 - RTÉ holds its first Living Music Festival of Contemporary Music with Raymond Deane as artistic director (festival runs annually until 2006)
2003 - Young Composers’ Collective founded (becomes the Irish Composers’ Collective)
2006 - Ligeti death, Vienna, Austria
2006 - Ergodos Production Company and record label founded by Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper Connolly
2007 - Stockhausen death - Kurten, Germany
2007 - Donnacha Dennehy composes Grá agus Bás featuring sean nos
2008 - Kagel death - Cologne, Germany
2008 - RTÈ Concert Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra 50th anniversary
2008- John Kinsella composed orchestral piece to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.
2011 - Babbitt - death, Princeton, (USA)
2011 - Barry’s opera The Importance Of Being Earnest premiered (concert only Los Angeles)
2012 - Kinsella's Symphony No. 10 is premiered by the Irish Chamber Orchestra
2013 - First New Music Dublin Festival held (runs yearly until 2015)
2014 - Donnacha Dennehy joins the music faculty at Princeton University
2015 - Roger Doyle releases Time Machine (using phone recorded messages from 1980s)
2016 - Boulez death, Baden Baden, Germany
2016 - Composing the Island Festival, September, part of 1916-2016 commemorations