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