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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

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– 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)

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Today → (11 Oct)

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.

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– 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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Birthdays

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Louis Aubert (19 February)
Russell Alexander (26 February)
Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz (28 February)
Alexander Gedike (4 March)
Thorvald Aagaard (8 June)
Marion Scott (16 July)
Ernö von Dohnányi (27 July)
Jan Zwart (20 August)
Jesús Castillo (9 October)
Elisabeth Kuyper (13 October)
Roger Quilter (1 November)
Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (21 November)

Dying days

Julius Rietz (12 September)

Music events

Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in b minor, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (10 March) → Alexander Porfir’yevich Borodin
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in B flat major D 125, in London, England. (20 October) → Franz Schubert
Premiere of the Rococo variations op. 33, in Mosow, Russia, with Tchaikovsky conducting. (30 November) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere of Samson et Dalila, in Weimar, Germany. (2 December) → Camille Saint-Saëns
Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in d minor, in Vienna, Austria, with Bruckner conducting. (12 December) → Anton Bruckner
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in D major op. 73, in Vienna, Austria. (30 December) → Johannes Brahms

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