Alexander Tikhonovitch Gretchaninov

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Sat 26 May: The Hambleden Concerts 2012 - Music from around the World The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Hambleden Hambleden, RG9 6RT
Tue 29 May: Composers Voice Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York
Sat 2 Jun: Music for a Royal Occasion Middleton Parish Church, New Lane, Middleton Manchester M24
Fri 8 Jun: Vienna Here and Now St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E, Toronto
Fri 8 Jun: Shakuhachi Concert Raixa, Bunyola, Spain
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Birthdays:
Aleksey Fedorovich Lvov
Anatoly Alexandrov
Gilardo Gilardi
Sverre Jordan
Aldo Clementi
Dying days:
Dominique Charles Joseph Barizel
Johann Rufinatscha
Gustav Theodore Holst
Robert Muczynski
Events:
(1870) Léo Delibes: Premiere of Coppélia, in Paris, France.
(1919) George Enescu: Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Bucarest, Romania.
(1930) George Antheil: Premiere of Transatlantic, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
(1938) William Schuman: Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in New York, USA.
(1961) Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco: Premiere of Il Mercante di Venezia, in Milan, Italy.

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Born: 25 October 1864 — Moscow — Russia
Died: 3 January 1956 — New York — USA
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Music

Wrote much church music; also operas, music for plays, choral works, five symphonies, concertos, four string quartets, etc.

Life

Studied at conservatories of Moscow and St. Petersburg (under Rimsky-Korsakov). Went to Paris around 1925, and later to the USA.

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