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Events relating to music
US jazz saxophonist John Coltrane forms his own 'hard bop' group
20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey
Atmosphères, by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, achieves a mysterious blend of sound in what he calls 'micropolyphony'
Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes his operatic debut in Reggio Emilia, as Rodolfo in La Bohème
Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski uses 'aleatory counterpoint' in his Venetian Games
US singer Bob Dylan writes one of his best-known songs, Blowin' in the Wind (included in his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
James Baldwin's third novel Another Country explores the conflicts in the life of a young unemployed black musician
The Rolling Stones, led by Mick Jagger, give their first performance as a group, in London's Marquee Club
US choreographer Glen Tetley creates a ballet to the music of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, setting poems by Wilfred Owen, is first performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral
17-year-old English cellist Jacqueline du Pré creates a stir playing Elgar's concerto in the Royal Festival Hall
Dmitry Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony sets poems from Yevtushenko's Babi Yar I
Bob Marley and five others form a band, the Wailers, that will for the first time give Jamaican music a global following
The Beatles reach number one in both the UK and the US with their single 'Can't Buy Me Love'
Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London
The Whale, a cantata by English composer John Tavener, has its premiere at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta
British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies found the Pierrot Players
English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim
The Beatles release an immensely successful album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a cover by British pop-artist Peter Blake
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung ('Tuning') employs six unaccompanied voices for 75 minutes
Peter Maxwell Davies writes Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Pierrot Players
Nearly half a million people turn up for the Woodstock Music Festival at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York
Italian composer Luciano Berio completes his Sinfonia for eight voices and orchestra
Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik's Universal Prayer, a cantata setting poetry by Alexander Pope, has its premiere in New York
Polish composer Witold Lutoslawksi writes a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich
