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– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK
– Wed 17 Sep: Gloria in Re Maggiore Arezzo, Italy
– Sat 20 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Turin, Italy
– Mon 22 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Brescia, Italy
– Sun 28 Sep: New Music for Saxophone Pima College, Tucson, Arizona, USA

– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
– Statue unveiled to honour Séan Ó Riada 4 Aug 2008
– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008

Birthdays:
– Dennis DeSantis
– Daniel Palkowski
– Reinbert de Leeuw
– Peter Maxwell Davies
– Rene Touzet
Dying days:
– Louis Thomas Hardin
– Frederick May
– Richard Strauss
– Carlo Gesualdo
Events:
– (1991) Peteris Vasks: Premiere of Symphony for Strings “Voices”, in Kokkola, Finland.
– (1961) Earle Brown: Premiere of Available Forms I, in Darmstadt, Germany.
– (1825) Franz Schubert: Premiere of Mass in C major D 452, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pehr Henrik Nordgren (6 Sep)
– Boris Berlin (5 Sep)
– Herman Berlinski (5 Sep)
– Johan Daniel Berlin (5 Sep)
– Victor Schlesinger (5 Sep)
– Anton Berlijn (5 Sep)
– Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (4 Sep)
– Andreas (Andries) Pevernage (4 Sep)
– John Newell (4 Sep)
– Chan Ka Nin (4 Sep)

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Born: 12 March 1930 — Zagreb — Croatia

Died: 30 October 2006 — Zagreb — Croatia

Some of most important works:

• Accords for piano
• Concertino for strings
• Choral for strings
• De diebus furoris for piano
• Dythirambos for orchestra
• Hymnus for orchestra
• In modo rustico for bas-clarinet and piano
• Cantata «Jama»
• Manual for piano
• Ostinati for piano
• Sonnant for piano
• Traumerei for piano
• One-act Opera «Preobrazaj»

Stanko Horvat (1930–2006) was born in Zagreb (Croatia). He studied composition at the Music Academy in Zagreb under Stjepan Sulek and later continued his studies in Paris under T. Aubin and René Leibowitz. In 1977, as a scholarship holder of DAAD Foundation, he worked in Electronic Studio of Technical University in Berlin. As a pedagogue, he worked at the Zagreb Music Academy from 1961–1999. Most of his students are today’s most prominent Croatian composers.

From 1974–1979 he was a president of Croatian Composers Society. From 1985–1989 he worked as artistic director of Music Biennale Zagreb. From 1998 he was a member of Croatian Academy of Science and Arts.

He is author of large number of works that have one of most important places in comtemporary Croatian music.

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