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– Sat 6 Sep: Seann Branchfield Acoustic Performance Gizzy's Coffee 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY, USA
– Sat 6 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Ronciglione, VITERBO
– Sat 6 Sep: Short romantic pieces for piano Michel Body Str. 12, 4460 Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium
– Sat 6 Sep: Eloi Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TQ, United Kingdom
– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK

– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
– Statue unveiled to honour Séan Ó Riada 4 Aug 2008
– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008

Birthdays:
– Brian P. Gillett
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– Joan Tower
Dying days:
– Léon Orthel
– Ronald Binge
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– Felix Borowski
Events:
– (1974) Klaus Huber: Premiere of Turnus, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
– (1910) Thomas Tallis: Premiere of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, in Gloucester, England.
– (1910) Ralph Vaughan Williams: Premiere of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, in Gloucester, England.
– (1791) Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart: Premiere of La Clemenza di Tito, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Mozart conducting.

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Born: 29 January 1782 — Caen — France

Died: 12 May 1871 — Paris — France

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Auber was almost exclusively an operatic composer, and gained unique popularity in this field. His operas were performed in all theaters and he acquired the nickname "Prince of Comic Opera". He was a genuinely Parisian composer. In his music he is unerringly elegant and witty, clear and cultivated. Today his fame rests chiefly on his dashing and sparkling overtures, and two operas, Masaniello, also known as La Muette de Portici (The Dumb Girl of Portici), and Fra Diavolo. The former work is more serious than the remainder of his enormous output. From 1842 Auber was director of the Paris Conservatory, and during the Second Empire he was court conductor. His music is marked by fiery rhythms and it is said that the revolutionary spirit and exhilarating music of Masaniello, when it was performed in Brussels in 1839, signaled the revolution which brought about Belgium´s separation from Holland.

(Contribution by Raúl Izaguirre Avila <rizaguiyahoo.com>.)

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