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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)
– 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: 3 July 1907 — Berlin — Germany

Died: 15 November 2000 — White Bear Lake, MN — USA

Orchestral music: 6 symphonies (1950-1971), Piano Concerto (1955), Holofernes Overture (1958), Bongo Divertimento (1961), Genghis Khan (1963), Aesop Fabler Suite (1965), Hsiang Fei (1965), Violin Concerto (1968); Epimetheus USA (1968), Bi-Centurion (1975), Icarus (1975), Perseus & Andromeda XX (1977), Akhenaten (1983), Helios Kinetic (1978), Rites in Tenochtitlan (1965).

Other music: three piano sonatas, four string quartets, three choruses.

Romeo Maximilian Eugene Ludwig Gutsche (Americanized to Gene Gutchë), of affluent Polish and French parentage, studied as a child with Feruccio Busoni. In his late teens (1925), in conflict with his father over the notion of a career in music, he came to the United States, settled in Minnesota, and eventually completed a MA in Composition with Donald Ferguson at the University of Minnesota (1950) and a PhD in Composition with Philip Greely Clapp at the University of Iowa (1953).

His vigorous and colorful music, in a personal style which incorporated elements of Hindemith, Bartok and Stravinsky, won numerous international awards and several pieces were recorded (recently reissued by Composers Recordings Incorporated/CRI).

Always a loner and an individualist, Gutchë had no students, followed no particular ‘school’, and lived to compose, aided in many ways by Marion, his wife of 64 years.

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