1887 first performance of Peter Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 4 ‘Mozartiana’ on an all-Tchaikovsky program in Moscow conducted by the composer.
1937 first performance of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Karl Böhm, with soloist Georg Kulenkampff; the work had been written in 1853 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim, who never performed it in public.
1948 first performance of Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story Suite, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting.
1997 first performance of John Corigliano's The Red Violin Chaconne for Violin & Orchestra by soloist Joshua Bell with the San Francisco Symphony, Robert Spano conducting.