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– Philip Glass gets commission from NYC Opera 30 Sep 2008
– Mauricio Kagel dies in Cologne at 76 19 Sep 2008
– New Mozart tune found in France 18 Sep 2008
– Nathan Currier wins International Sackler Award 18 Sep 2008

– Tue 7 Oct: Simon Mulligan performs an all-Chopin recital on Chopin's Pleyel piano Hatchlands House, Surrey, UK
– Fri 10 Oct: Italian Music Curtiss Hall in the Fine Arts Building, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
– Sun 12 Oct: Stern Showcase Recital Palace Theater 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford CT 06901
– Sun 12 Oct: Birthday Tribute to Luciano Pavarotti Ventura College Theater,Ventura, California, USA
– Wed 15 Oct: Iron Rain Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Birthdays:
– William Billings
– Max Keller
– Wilhelm Bernhard Molique
– Felix Draeseke
– Marcello Abbado
Dying days:
– Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
– Wouter Paap
– Hermann Schröder (1)
– Harold Truscott
– Arthur Victor Berger
Events:
– (1909) Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Premiere of The Golden Cockerel, in Moscow, Russia.
– (1964) Humphrey Searle: Premiere of Symphony no. 5, in Manchester, England.
– (1981) Aribert Reimann: Premiere of Die Vogelscheuchen, in Berlin, Germany.
– (2001) Peter Wallin: First performances of "Symphony No. 4" & "After the punch", in Esbjerg, Denmark.

– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)
– Albert William Ketèlbey (2 Oct)
– Franz von Holstein (2 Oct)
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– Henri Hardouin (2 Oct)
– Henry Harington (2 Oct)
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– Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine (1 Oct)

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Born: 22 December 1819 — Eilenburg — Germany

Died: 31 March 1885 — Wiesbaden — Germany

He wrote he large number of songs.

Abt studied theology and music in Leipzig, where he was a friend of Mendelssohn and Schumann. From his post as Kapellmeister at Bernburg, he went to Zürich to embark on an immensely successful career as a choral conductor. From 1855 until his retirement in 1882, he was Kapellmeister at the Court Theatre in Brunswick. During this time he conducted in many cities in Europe, and toured the USA (1872).

He composed more than 3,000 works, mostly songs and partsongs in a popular and simple style, often close to folksong. His work also included two operas and some piano pieces.

(source: ‘Harrap’s Illustrated Dictionary of Music and Musicians’, 1989, London: Harrap Books, 3)

(Contribution by Adrian Gallagher.)

• http://www.morrisonfoundation.org/Franz_Abt.htm
• http://www.eilenburg.de/rubrik3/rubrik3331.php

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