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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)
– August Harder (2 Oct)
– Henri Hardouin (2 Oct)
– Henry Harington (2 Oct)
– George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (2 Oct)
– Václav Matyáš Gurecký (2 Oct)
– Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine (1 Oct)

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Born: 1854 — Tangier — Morocco

Died: 1928 — Portugal

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Alexandre Rey Colaço (born in Tangier, Morocco) was a Portuguese pianist of a French father and Spanish-Portuguese mother. He studied piano at the Conservatory of Music of Madrid and gave his first performance in Lisbon in 1881. A certain Count of Daupiás was present and so impressed that he offered Colaço a trip to Paris to continue his musical education. From there he moved on to Berlin to study at the Excola Superior de Música under Barth and Rudorff (piano) and Harertel and Bargiel (composition). Due to his outstanding talent, he was invited to teach piano at this school, whose director was the famous violinist Joachim, a great friend of Schumann and Brahms.

In 1887, Colaço returned to Lisbon and became a Portuguese citizen. He was appointed piano professor at the Conservatory of Music and contributed largely to the cultural activities of this country as a performer, pedagogue and composer. His works are among the first to incorporate popular themes of a Portuguese national character. These works include pieces for the piano: the collection of Fados, the reference point of his personal creative style, Bailarico, Jota, Malagueña and Pequenas Peças; for piano and voice: Cantigas de Portugal. He also wrote the book called De Música, a consequence of his experience and reflections about musical art.

[source: en.wikipedia.org]

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