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– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, 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:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

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Born: ? 1460 — Brabant (Burgundian duchy, later divided between Belgium and The Netherlands)

Died: –14 1512

Johannes Prioris published a fine Requiem mass which skillfully paraphrases the traditional plainsongs, and also composed attractive chansons (such as “Elle l’a pris”, in Burgundian “forme fixe”) and motets. His Marian antiphonal motet “Regina caeli” also demonstrates his art in paraphrasing the Gregorian original, while contemporaries such as his own subordinate Antoine Divitis pioneered the “parody mass” by spinning an elaborate contrapunctal web which almost completely hides the plainchant.

This Flemish Polyphony composer of the third generation (championed by Josquin Desprez) was organist at the papal St Peter’s basilica in Rome in 1490, before he got his last and major appointment in 1503 as maître de chapelle to the French royal chapel — then leading in Europe — under king Louis XII (1498–1515), which included as singers the Flemish polyphonist composers Antoine de Févin and Antonius Divitis.

[This contribution is mainly based on KULeuven’s musicology professor I. Bossuyt’s book “De Vlaamse Polyfonie” and the HOASM-site which links below.]

• HOASM biography

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