Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

the college was one of the first to recognize the importance of music not only as a definite part of the curriculum but as a vital adjunct to campus life.

Let me say at the outset that the music sounded as sparkling on the last playing as it did on the first.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Ward's music combined with Bates ' poem were first published together in 1910 and titled, America the Beautiful.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

Angst was probably first discussed in relation to popular music in the mid-to late 1950s that was popular amongst the nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

The Fairlight CMI was the first sampling synthesizer, while the Synclavier was originally an FM synthesizer, not adding sampling synthesis until the 1980s.

In 1980, Yamaha eventually released the first FM digital synthesizer, the Yamaha GS-1, but at an expensive retail price of $ 16, 000.

The New Wave era of the 1980s first brought the digital synthesizer to the public ear.

The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

Vapor Trails marked the first studio recording not to include a single synthesizer, organ or keyboard part since the early 1970s.

* 1973 – Roland SH-1000: Japan's first commercial keyboard synthesizer.

* 1975 – Roland System-100: Roland's first attempt at a modular synthesizer.

* 1976 – Roland System-700: Roland's first professional-quality modular synthesizer.

* 1977 – Roland GR-500: Roland's first commercial guitar synthesizer.

* 1978 – Roland Jupiter-4: Roland's first self-contained polyphonic synthesizer.

* 1982 – Roland Juno-6: Roland's first synthesizer with digitally controlled oscillators.

* 1987 – Roland D-50: One of the popular digital synthesizers in late 1980s ; Roland's first all-digital synthesizer implementing its Linear Arithmetic synthesis ( a form of sample-based synthesis combined with subtractive synthesis ).

* 1991 – Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas: The world's first General MIDI synthesizer.

* 1992 – Roland DJ-70: A DJ sampling music workstation and synthesizer keyboard that featured the first scratch wheel pad.

* 1996 – Roland MC-303 Roland's first non-keyboard drum machine, sample-based synthesizer, and sequencer combination bearing the now-generic term Groovebox.

* 1997 – Roland JP-8000: Roland's first virtual analog synthesizer.

* 2006 – Roland SH-201: Roland's first affordable analog modeling synthesizer.

The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments.

Moog created the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller and demonstrated it at the AES convention in 1964.

The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original standard sitcom music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast " The Seinfeld Chronicles ".

* The first Moog synthesizer is designed by Robert Moog.

) His performance on the Monkees song " Daily Nightly " ( written by Michael Nesmith ) from the LP Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. was the first use of a synthesizer on a rock recording.