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Events on Saturday 22 October 1881 1
1881Boston Symphony Orchestra foundedHenry Lee Higginson establishes a major American orchestraFinancier Henry Lee Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra and funded it personally for decades, giving its first concert in October 1881. It became one of the leading orchestras in the United States. The orchestra later gained its own home, Symphony Hall, in 1900.