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1928
 
     
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois        
1928
 
     
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin        
1928
 
    
Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works       
1928
 
    
Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame       
1929
 
     
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich        
1929
 
   
20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano      
1929
 
   
Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry      
1929
 
    
George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele       
1930
 
     
The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig        
1930
 
    
Heitor Villa-Lobos composes the first of his Bachianas Brasileiras