List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response
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A classical music riot is violent, disorderly behavior that occurs upon (usually) the premiere of a controversial piece of classical music.
Examples include:
- 1830 - Daniel Auber - La Muette de Portici (opera -- sparked the Belgian Revolution)
- 1838 - Hector Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini
- 1861 - Richard Wagner - Tannhäuser (opera) (The Paris Opera premiere)
- 1905 - Richard Strauss - Salomé (particularly the Met production in New York)
- 1913 - Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (ballet)
- 1914 - Luigi Russolo - The Art of Noises
- 1917 - Erik Satie - Parade
- 1923 - Erwin Schulhoff - Ogelala
- 1923 - Edgard Varèse - Hyperprism
- 1926 - George Antheil - Ballet Mécanique
- 1926 - Béla Bartók - The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)
- 1926 - Maurice Ravel - Chansons madécasses
- 1968 - Hans Werner Henze - Das Floß der Medusa
- 1973 - Steve Reich - Four Organs
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See also
- List of riots
- Succès de scandale
- Claque - Claqueurs could be hired for booing, by someone opposing a performance.
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