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1925
 
    
Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck has its premiere in Berlin       
1926
 
   
English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire      
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
1926
 
    
John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London       
1926
 
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The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike       
1926
 
   
19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory      
1926
 
    
Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London       
1926
 
    
Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw       
1926
 
    
Leos Janacek completes his powerfully scored orchestral work Sinfonietta       
1926
 
    
Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, has a synchronized musical score, making it the earliest example of a film with a sound track       
1926
 
     
Jelly Roll Morton and his new group of seven, the Red Hot Peppers, record their first classic, Black Bottom Stomp