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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:
– Karol Szymanowski
– Udo Zimmermann
– Inal Bilsel
Dying days:
– Heinrich Albert
– Francesco Onofrio Manfredini
– Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini
– Jean-François Le Sueur
– Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen
Events:
– (1868) Jacques Offenbach: Premiere of La Périchole, in Paris, France.
– (1906) Andrey Schulz-Evler: Recording of the “Blue Danube Arabesque”, Welte-Mignon Piano Roll No.1305, with Josef Lhevinne at the piano.
– (1933) Karol Szymanowski: Premiere of violin concerto no. 2, in Warsaw, Poland.
– (1951) Pierre Boulez: Premiere of Polyphonie X, in Donaueschingen, Germany.
– (1977) Michael Tippett: Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Chicago, USA.

– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
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– 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: 8 January 1912 — Amsterdam — The Netherlands

Died: 17 March 1980 — De Koog, Texel — The Netherlands

The music of Rudloph Escher was much inspired by the French composers like Ravel and Debussy. It is characterised by long fluently moving melodic lines. Escher also plays with tonality, but his music always retains a great transparancy. He also tried to compose in a more modernistic way, and also wrote an electronic score for a TV play, but in his heart he preferred the more melodic approach.

He composed some ten orchestral scores, a few pieces for solo voice and orchestra, about 20 pieces for smaller ensemble, stage music, an electronic score, and four a capella choral pieces.

Rudolph Escher is an important 20th century Dutch composer. The famous graphical artist Maurits Escher was his half uncle. Rudolph studied piano and composition at the Rotterdam conservatory between 1931 and 1937. When the city of Rotterdam was bombarded in May 1940, nearly all his early compositions were lost.

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