Beethoven was growing increasingly deaf at the time, but nevertheless led the premiere.

On 23 April 1879 he led the premiere of Dvorak's "Festival March", Op.

On 29 October 1882 he led the premiere of Smetana's The Devil's Wall.

In March Gaetano Donizetti led the Italian premiere in Bologna with great success.

As a conductor, he led the premiere of Rossini's Stabat Mater.

In return, Mr. Rozhdestvensky was to lead the Soviet premiere of an American work.

In 1897, he led the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No 1.

Bernstein led the American premiere of "Peter Grimes" at Tanglewood in 1946.

The following year, he led the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No 1.