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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

– 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
– 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)

Birthdays:
– Angelo Mariani
– Robert Nathaniel Dett
– Jan van Vlijmen
Dying days:
– Franz Christoph Neubauer
– Samuel Wesley
– Anton Bruckner
– Léon Boëllmann
Events:
– (1830) Frédéric François Chopin: Premiere of piano concerto no. 1 in e minor op. 11, in Warsaw, Poland, with Chopin at the piano.
– (1897) Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin: Premiere of piano concerto in f sharp minor op. 20, in Odessa, Ukraine.
– (1952) Sergey Prokofiev: Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Moscow, Russia.
– (1953) Olivier Messiaen: Premiere of Réveil des Oseaux, in Donaueschingen, Germany.

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– Arthur Butterworth (8 Oct)
– George Butterworth (8 Oct)
– Luís Carvalho (8 Oct)
– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Born: 15 March 1864 — Drammen — Norway

Died: 4 December 1935 — Oslo — Norway

• Stage music for 30 pieces: "Vasantasena", "Gurre", "Tordenskiold", "Kongen", "MacBeth", Maria Stuart", "Reisen til Julestjernen"
• 3 symphonies
• Norwegian Rhapsodie
• Suite ancienne
• Bojarenes inntogsmarsj
• Cantatas and song to texts by Sivle, Hamsun, Bjørnson, Krag and Garborg.
• Chamber music

Played the violin from he was about 7 years old. Studied music in Stockholm. Concert master in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra "Harmonien" in 1884. Met Edvard Grieg, and became a close friend of his. They co-operated closely on Grieg’s opus 72 "Norwegian Peasant Dances". Further studies in Leipzig with Adolf Brodsky. Concert Master in the Aberdeen Musical Society. Professor at the Music Concervatory in Helsinki. Further studies in St. Petersburg, Berlin and Liège. 1893-1899 Concert Master in "Harmonien" in Bergen, where he first started to compose. 1899-1929 Conductor of the theatre orchestra in Oslo.

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