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– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

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– Johann Sebastian Bach [1141]
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel [1103]
– Johannes Brahms [1075]
– Antonio Salieri [1075]
– Gustav Mahler [1070]
– Georges Bizet [1041]

Born: 2 January 1951 — Nuernberg — Germany

Died:

Compositions (selection): 1979 Poemas del otoño for stringquartet, 1980/81 sinfonie Leviathan, 1982 Schattengeburt trio for cl., vl. u. vc., 1985 Lover´s maze three songs for soprano and piano, 1986 Deinen Kopf, Holofernes chamberopera, 1988 Tableaux fugitives after Baudelaire for alto and small orchestra, 1990 Invenzioni capric a nove, 1991 Colle rondini quintet (fl., bcl., git., cb. u. perc.), 1992/93 Caronglo - Zyklus different ensembles, 1993 Jason - Essay for seven players, 1994 Omoitsutsu for cl., vc. u. pf., 1995 chamberopera Schwarz überwölbt Rot / Jason und Medea, 1997/98 rooms/räume for soprano and ensemble, 2000 SPEC für Erhu, Koto und Kammerorchester, 2001 che sta così für Kayagûm, 2002 ricalda, ricresce, rigonfia für Erhu, Violoncello und Kayagûm.

Publication: Streifzüge: comments on contemporary music, PFAU-Verlag Saarbrücken 2000.

Other publishers:

• Bote & Bock / Berlin
• Carus Verlag / Stuttgart
• edition gravis / Bad Schwalbach
• Ebert Verlag / Leipzig
• Florian Noetzel Verlag »ars musica« Wilhelmshaven
• Moeck Verlag / Celle

Volker Blumenthaler, born 1951 in Mannheim/Germany, studies in cello, musical theory and composition in Mannheim and Cologne, among others with Hans Vogt and Jürg Baur, 1979-87 part-time lecture-ship for musical theory at the Academie of Music Rhineland/Cologne, 1989/90 guest lectures at the National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu/Taiwan, from 1992 to now lecturer for composition and musical theory at the Academy of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg, since 1993 regular activities as author of broadcast-features for "Commentaries on New Music" (SWR Stuttgart/Baden-Baden), 1994/95 workshops for analysis and composition at the National Institut of the Arts in Taipei/Taiwan, 1997 guest lecture at the University of Harvard Cambridge/USA (about the chamber opera "Jason and Medea/Black enshrouds Red"), 1994 and 1998 invited to the "International Vacation Course of New Music" in Darmstadt/Germany, scholarships (1982 German Academie Villa Massimo in Rome/Italy, 1987 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann scholarship of the City of Cologne), prizes (1982 award for young composers of the City of Stuttgart, 1987 prize at the "Concours International de Composition Musical Opera & Ballet" Geneva/Switzerland).

• http://www.volkerblumenthaler.net
• http://www.volker-blumenthaler.de
• http://www.voco-music.de
• http://www.editionblumenthaler.com

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