As Schubert's total compositions number nearly 1000, Diabelli's firm was able to publish " new " Schubert works for more than 30 years after the composer's death.

The first movement ( Prelude ) of that suite, later retitled after the composer's death as Asturias ( Leyenda ), is probably most famous today as part of the classical guitar repertoire, even though it was originally composed for piano and only later transcribed.

( Produced after the composer's death, orchestration not by Leoncavallo, completed by Giovanni Pennacchio )

) Produced after the composer's death.

Produced after the composer's death.

Produced after the composer's death.

Boris Godunov was performed 21 times during the composer's lifetime, and 5 times after his death ( in 1881 ) before being withdrawn from the repertory on 8 November 1882.

After its original production, Iolanthe was not revived in London until 1901, making it the first of the operas to be revived after the composer's death the year before.

Repin painted the famous red-nosed portrait in what were to be the last days of the composer's life: a week after his 42nd birthday, he was dead.

Smetana's choral music is generally nationalistic in character, ranging in scale from the short Ceremonial Chorus written after the death of the composer's revolutionary friend Havlíček, to the setting of Song of the Sea, a substantial work with the character of a choral drama.

* April 26 – Leopold Stokowski conducts the first complete performance of Charles Ives ' Symphony No. 4, more than ten years after the composer's death.

The work was premiered after the composer's death, with Krasner playing the solo part, on April 19, 1936, in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Although composed very rapidly ( during June 2 – 22, 1874 ), the work did not appear in print until 1886 ( five years after the composer's death ), when an edition by the composer's great friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was published.

Only in 1931, more than half a century after the work's composition, was Pictures at an Exhibition published in a scholarly edition in agreement with the composer's manuscript.

* First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens, takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death

* April 28-Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L ' Africaine is premiered in Paris at the Grand Opéra, after the composer's death.

For although Austrian copyright governs works published up to 70 years after its composer's death, IMSLP is hosted in Canada, where copyright lasts twenty years less.

Despite Giovanni Battista Mancini's claim that Hasse was the padre della musica, and despite the composer's massive popularity as a figure at the very forefront of 18th-century serious Italian opera, after his death Hasse's reputation vastly declined and his music lay mostly unperformed ( with the exception of some of his sacred works, which were revived now and again in Germany ).

Duncan and Brown also appeared on the 1937 CBS Gershwin memorial concert on September 8, 1937, broadcast from the Hollywood Bowl less than two months after the composer's death, along with several other members of the Broadway cast, including John W. Bubbles and Ruby Elzy.

The score was not published until 1867, 40 years after the composer's death in 1827.

Ilya Repin's portrait of Glinka was painted thirty years after the composer's death

In 2011 the art critic Brian Sewell published his memoirs, in which he revealed that he was Heseltine's illegitimate son, born in July 1931 seven month's after the composer's death.

It was a glorious occasion, after which about 100 of the composer's friends, the Joachims, Clara Schumann, the Dietrichs, Max Bruch and others gathered at the Bremen Rathskeller.

A Bantock Society was established shortly after the composer's death in London.

His name was brought back to public notice by the English poet Robert Browning's 1855 poem " A Toccata of Galuppi's ", but this did not restore the composer's work to the general repertoire.

Brahms ' biographers often note that the first sketches for the dramatic opening movement followed quickly on the heels of the 1854 suicide attempt of the composer's dear friend and mentor, Robert Schumann, an event which caused great anguish for Brahms.

It also encodes a version of the composer's name, Robert Alexander Schumann.

Their composition coincided with the beginning of the composer's lifelong affection for Clara Schumann, the wife of Robert Schumann, who was helping Brahms launch his career.

" Still another account claims that after Marchand's wife had left him, Louis XIV ordered half the composer's salary to be withheld and paid to her.

About 1650 / 51 Louis Couperin and his brothers gave a small private concert at Chambonnières's Le Plessis-Feu-Aussoux manor, to celebrate the older composer's name day.

It was Diabelli who first recognized the composer's potential, become the very first to publish Schubert's work with Der Erlkönig in 1821.

In addition he was a patron of the young Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn in 1770 ; the elector financed the composer's first journey to Vienna.

This was the composer's first on-stage appearance in 12 years ; the hall was packed.

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer, but all hostility was rendered futile by the enthusiasm that greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer's wife, took a leading part.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

When he was still a child, Verdi's parents moved from Piacenza to Busseto, where the future composer's education was greatly facilitated by visits to the large library belonging to the local Jesuit school.

Telemann's friends in Hamburg organized a collection to save the composer's finances, and eventually he was saved from bankruptcy ; by 1736 Maria had left Telemann's home.

It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy.

After the composer's death the score was subject to significant amendment, including the introduction of recitative in place of the original dialogue ; there is no standard edition of the opera, and differences of view exist as to what versions best express Bizet's intentions.

Among the more significant post-war productions was that directed in 1951 by Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson.

However, the composer had already begun working with Cammarano who was revising-to the composer's satisfaction-an earlier version of Belisario.

The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.

Work was delayed by the composer's poor health and by his compulsion to revise his early symphonies, and by the time of his death in 1896 he had not finished the last movement.

On 11 September 1591 John Baldwin, a tenor lay-clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor and later a colleague of Byrd in the Chapel Royal, completed the copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a collection of 42 of Byrd's keyboard pieces which was probably produced under Byrd's supervision and includes corrections which are thought to be in the composer's hand.

In an unprecedented first, the New York premiere was given on the same date – 25 November 1882, with the composer's assistant, Alfred Cellier, conducting.