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George Orwell's '1984' is published

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population has become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation.

Orff's cantata 'Carmina Burana' premieres in Frankfurt

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. The first and last movements of the piece are called Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi and start with the very well known "O Fortuna". The composition appears in numerous films and television commercials.

Salieri's opera 'Tarare' premieres in Paris

Opera Tarare was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner. The success was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II's behest.

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