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– Thu 10 Jul: A Musical and Visual Tour of Scotland Macphail Theatre, Ullapool, Scotland
– Thu 10 Jul: GUBAIDULINA'S PERCEPTION - IN PARIS,COMPOSER Present Salle Cortot, Paris, France
– Wed 16 Jul: Pops in Outer Space Columbus Park,Stamford, CT
– Thu 17 Jul: Five Centuries of Great Duets East Meadow, NY, USA
– Sun 20 Jul: Workshop for Contemporary Music Termoli (CB) - Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Stephen Hartke
– Padre Luís de Sousa Rodrigues
– Hanns Eisler
Dying days:
– Ludovit Rajter
– Joaquín Rodrigo
– Otto Klemperer
– Ferdinand Zellbell (der Ältere)
Events:
– (1991) Krzysztof Penderecki: Premiere of Ubu Rex, in Munich, Germany.
– (1987) Henri Pousseur: Premiere of Un Jardin de Passacaille, in Montpellier, France.
– (1986) Aribert Reimann: Premiere of Troades, in Munich, Germany.

– Gabriel Erkoreka (17 Jun)
– Miguel Álvarez Fernández (17 Jun)
– Edward Gonçalves Pinto (17 Jun)
– George Frederic Pinto (17 Jun)
– André Miranda (17 Jun)
– Artur Santos (17 Jun)
– Martin Wesley-Smith (17 Jun)
– Arturo Márquez (17 Jun)
– Giorgos Kyriakakis (17 Jun)
– Thomas Brendan Wilson (17 Jun)

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– Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart [2417]
– Antonio Vivaldi [2380]
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1832]
– Ludwig van Beethoven [1194]
– Johann Sebastian Bach [1162]
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel [1123]
– Johannes Brahms [1096]
– Antonio Salieri [1095]
– Gustav Mahler [1090]
– Georges Bizet [1061]

Born: 10 September 1906 — Utrecht — The Netherlands

Died: 14 February 1972 — Roden — The Netherlands

Major works

Music for Orchestra

• First Symphony (1928)
• Second Symphony (1930, revised 1945)
• Third Symphony (1939)
• Catharsis, a symphonic ballet (1945)
• Concert (1950)
• Symphonia (1954)
• Divertimento facile (1957)
• Intrada reale e sinfonia festiva (1964)
• Suite (1966)

Selected other Compositions

• Sonate pour une poupée (1925)
• Deux poésies de Ronsard Cependant que ce beau mois dure, Ephitaphe (1931)
• Small Suite (1935)
• The Dike, choir music on a text by Van Engelman (1937)
• A tfile fun a ghettojid (Yiddish: Prayer of a ghetto Jew), text by Kwiattkowska (1948)
• Ik sla de trom... (Dutch: I Hit the Drum...), text by J. Greshoff (1948)
• Theater music for "Aias and Antigone" by Sofokles, translated by Van Lier (1952)
• Cantata for Christmis, text by J. Thomson (1955)
• 5 May: She, text by K de Josselin de Jong (1962)

Born 1906 in Utrecht, Bertus van Lier studied cello with Ferrée and Orobio de Castro and composition with Willem Pijper at the Amsterdam Academy of Music. He continued his studies with the German composer Hermann Scherchen in Strassbourg.

Van Lier taught at the Music Academies of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam and reviewed concerts for the Dutch daily "Het Parool" (selected reviews were later published in a book). After completing his doctorate with the highest honors in 1964 at the Groningen University, he was appointed as lecturer at this university 1966. He died in 1972, at the age of 65, in Roden near Groningen.

(contribution by Gidon J. Berman <gjbermanusa.net>)

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