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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

– Wed 15 Oct: Iron Rain Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland
– Wed 15 Oct: Opera For Piano Mannes College of Music, Manhattan, New York City, USA
– Thu 16 Oct: thingNY does Berio Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
– Thu 16 Oct: Outsound and The Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
– Fri 17 Oct: 23rd Annual Concert of Sacred Choral Music Cathedral of the Holy Angels, Gary, Indiana, USA

Birthdays:
– Alexander von Zemlinsky
– Ernest Pingoud
– La Monte Young
– Kaija Saariaho
– Claudio Alsuyet
Dying days:
– Pietro Antonio Cesti
– Domenico Alberti
– František (Franz) Xaver Brixi
– Johann Kaspar Mertz
– Rodolfo Halffter
Events:
– (1883) Antonín Dvořák: Premiere of violin concerto in a minor op. 53, in Prague, Czech Republic.
– (1924) Gustav Mahler: Premiere of Symphony no. 10 in F sharp major, in Vienna, Austria.
– (1924) Arnold Schoenberg: Premiere of Die Glückliche Hand, in Vienna, Austria.
– (1933) Alexander von Zemlinsky: Premiere of Der Kreidekreis, in Zürich, Switzerland.
– (1951) Pablo Casals: Premiere of La Sardana (for 123 cellos), in Zürich, Switzerland.

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– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Born: 21 June 1899 — Brno — Czechoslovakia

Died: 17 October 1944 — Auschwitz — Poland

Pavel Haas experienced considerable success as author of songs, chamber and orchestral music, choral music, operas and oratorios. He also collaborated with the budding Czech film industry. Out of at least five documented compositions in Terezin, only three have been preserved, and one of them, the Study for Strings (1943), had to be partially reconstructed. This piece was used in a Nazi propaganda film that was ment to show that Jews lived in good conditions; Haas himself is shown in the film conducting the orchestra. A month later most of the musicians including Haas were sent to their deaths in Auschwitz. It is estimated that Haas wrote over one hunderd compositions. His works include: Four Songs to the Text of Chinese Poetry, three string quartets, a wind quintet, Suite for Piano, a suite for oboe and piano and a sonata for flute and piano.

Pavel Haas was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1899. He studied piano and music theory from an early age and later became Leos Janacek’s best pupil. Being Jewish, at the time of the Nazi invasion he divorced his christian wife to save his family. He was later taken to Terezin, and then to Auschwitz where he was murdered in the same day with Hans Krása and Viktor Ullmann.

(contribution by Guy Rauscher <rauschernetvision.net.il>)

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