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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:
– William Billings
– Max Keller
– Wilhelm Bernhard Molique
– Felix Draeseke
– Marcello Abbado
Dying days:
– Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
– Wouter Paap
– Hermann Schröder (1)
– Harold Truscott
– Arthur Victor Berger
Events:
– (1909) Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Premiere of The Golden Cockerel, in Moscow, Russia.
– (1964) Humphrey Searle: Premiere of Symphony no. 5, in Manchester, England.
– (1981) Aribert Reimann: Premiere of Die Vogelscheuchen, in Berlin, Germany.
– (2001) Peter Wallin: First performances of "Symphony No. 4" & "After the punch", in Esbjerg, Denmark.

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– 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 September 1695 — Bergamo — Italy

Died: 30 March 1764 — Amsterdam — The Netherlands

Virtuose violin music.

Compositions

• Dodici Concerti Grossi Op.I (1721)
• Dodici Sonate per Flauto traverso e Basso Op.II (1732)
• L’Arte del Violino: Dodici Concerti per Violino con 24 Capricci per Violino solo Op.III (1733)
• Sei Introduzioni teatrali e Sei Concerti Op.IV (1735)
• Sei Sonate a Tre per Due Violini o Due Flauti e Basso Op.V
• Dodici Sonate per Violino e Basso Op.VI
• Sei Concerti a Quattro per due Violini, Viola e Basso solo Op.VII (1744)
• Sei Sonate a Violino solo e Basso e quattro Sonate a Tre Op.VIII
• Various other compositions without opus numbers.

(Contribution by <DCilBuranellojuno.com>)

Played the violin; Went to Rome in 1711 to study with Corelli, and later with Valentini; After 1723 he travelled as a violin virtuoso; Settled in Amsterdam in 1729; Was called the Paganini of the 18th century.

• http://www.fondazionelocatelli.org

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