Clergy. Poets and novelists.

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Poets and novelists

These composers all had an official religious function, like a priest, nun, minister, or rabbi.

Composers who have also written poetry or novels. These may, for example, have been used as texts for their own songs, or as libretto for their own opera.

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Dutilleux dead at 97 posted 23 May 2013
Britten trail opened posted 3 Apr 2013
Tan Dun is Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO posted 29 Mar 2013
Michael Berkeley to be member of House of Lords posted 29 Mar 2013
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Upcoming concerts →

Sat 1 Jun: Action Painting: The Edges of Sound Baruch Performing Arts Center
Sat 8 Jun: Symphony No 5 St Johns, Smith Sq, London, SW1P 3HA
Fri 14 Jun: Day of Wrath "The Revelation"- concert in Bucharest Cinema Patria, Bulevardul Magheru 12-14, Bucuresti, Romania
Sat 15 Jun: A North East Choral Garland The Ave, Washington, Tyne and Wear NE38 7LE
Sat 15 Jun: Viva Vivaldi! Bristol Cathedral College Green Bristol
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Today → (25 May) rss

Birthdays:
Aleksey Fedorovich Lvov
Anatoly Alexandrov
Gilardo Gilardi
Sverre Jordan
Aldo Clementi
Dying days:
Dominique Charles Joseph Barizel
Johann Rufinatscha
Gustav Theodore Holst
Robert Muczynski
Events:
(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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Henri Dutilleux (23 May)
Anders Eliasson (22 May)
John La Montaine (22 May)
Gordon Sherwood (22 May)
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (22 May)
Manuel de Elías (17 May)
Sabrina Peña Young (16 May)
Stanislas Verroust (16 May)
Karl Davydov (16 May)
Massimiliano Viel (16 May)

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