Robert Oboussier

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Born: 1900 — Antwerpen — Belgium
Died: 1957 — Zürich — Switzerland
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Amphitryon (text by Oboussier after Jean Baptiste Molière/Heinrich von Kleist), Opera in 3 acts (1948–1950; premiered on 13 March 1951 in Berlin, Städtische Oper and Dresden)

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Robert Oboussier was a composer and music critic. After music studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, he went to the Zürich conservatory, and later to Berlin. From 1922 till 1930 he worked as a free composer in Paris, Florence and Munich. He was killed on 9 June 1957 by someone with whom he had just had a short homosexual encounter.

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(1870) Léo Delibes: Premiere of Coppélia, in Paris, France.
(1919) George Enescu: Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Bucarest, Romania.
(1930) George Antheil: Premiere of Transatlantic, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
(1938) William Schuman: Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in New York, USA.
(1961) Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco: Premiere of Il Mercante di Venezia, in Milan, Italy.

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