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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

– 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
– Wed 15 Oct: Opera For Piano Mannes College of Music, Manhattan, New York City, USA
– Thu 16 Oct: thingNY does Berio Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY (USA)

Birthdays:
– Angelo Mariani
– Robert Nathaniel Dett
– Jan van Vlijmen
Dying days:
– Franz Christoph Neubauer
– Samuel Wesley
– Anton Bruckner
– Léon Boëllmann
Events:
– (1830) Frédéric François Chopin: Premiere of piano concerto no. 1 in e minor op. 11, in Warsaw, Poland, with Chopin at the piano.
– (1897) Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin: Premiere of piano concerto in f sharp minor op. 20, in Odessa, Ukraine.
– (1952) Sergey Prokofiev: Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Moscow, Russia.
– (1953) Olivier Messiaen: Premiere of Réveil des Oseaux, in Donaueschingen, Germany.

– Sergio Fidemraizer (10 Oct)
– Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (9 Oct)
– Jan Adams (Johann Adam) Reinken (8 Oct)
– Richard Englefield (8 Oct)
– John Arrigo-Nelson (8 Oct)
– Arthur Butterworth (8 Oct)
– George Butterworth (8 Oct)
– Luís Carvalho (8 Oct)
– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Born: 1 February 1907 — Kolozsvar — Hungary

Died: 4 March 1992 — Bern — Switzerland

Works

• Piano Sonata 1929
• String Quartet no. 1 1931
• String Quartet no. 2 1936/37
• Violin Concerto 1939
• Transsylvanian Dances 1943
• Threons (in memoriam B. Bártok) 1945
• Hommage to Paul Klee (2 pianos, str. orch.)1951
• Concerto f. piano, strings and percussion, 1952
• Sonata per orchestra 1952/53
• Piano Trio 1963
• Musica concertante f. 12 strings 1965/66
• Clarinet Concerto 1981/82
• Tromboniade f. 2 tromp. and orch. 1991
• Many piano works, vocal works and chamber music

Born 1907 in Kolozsvar (Hungaria, now Romania). Sándor Veress studies at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with Bártok (piano) and Kodály (cocmposition).

1943–49: Professor of composition at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest where his pupils include György Ligeti and György Kurtág.

In 1949 Veress emigrates to the West. From 1950 he teaches composition and theory at the Bern Conservatory.

From 1965–1972 he holds guest professorsships in the US (Baltimore) and Australia.

From 1968–1977 Sándor Veress is appointed professor of ethnomusicology and 20th century music at Bern University (Switzerland).

Veress died in Bern, Switzerland, on March 4, 1992.

• http://www.veress.net/

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