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Sat 7 Nov: EL NUEVO MUNDO. 17th & 18th-Century Spain and the Colonial Latin Americas. Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, USA

Sat 7 Nov: Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble Concert Trinity Chapel, Berkeley, CA, USA

Sat 7 Nov: Concerto per la beata Vergine SATB choir, oboe New York City Church of the Hole Trinity, New York, USA

Sun 8 Nov: EL NUEVO MUNDO. 17th & 18th-Century Spain and the Colonial Latin Americas. Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, USA

Sun 8 Nov: An Audience With Hackney Singers St. Johns At Hackney, Hackney, England

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Birthdays:

Johann George Tromlitz

Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner

Lazare Saminsky

Dying days:

César Auguste Franck

Sergei Liapunov

Events:

(1962) Humphrey Searle: Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Birmingham, England.

(1966) Wladimir Vogel: Premiere of Die Flucht, in Zürich, Switzerland.

(1979) Wolfgang Rihm: Premiere of Erste Abgesangsszene für Orchester, in Kassel, Germany.

(1991) Hans-Jürgen von Bose: Premiere of Ein Brudermord, in Stuttgart, Germany.

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William Albright (28 Oct)

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Leonidas Sakellarides (27 Oct)

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Jacob Obrecht (26 Oct)

Oskar [Oscar] Rieding (26 Oct)

José Marín (23 Oct)

Bonifazio Asioli (22 Oct)

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Birthdays

Dying days

Georg Böhm (1733)
João José Baldi (1816)
Maddalena Laura Lombardini-Sirmen (1818)
Bonifazio Asioli (1832)
Isaac Albéniz (1909)
Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1910)
Gustav Mahler (1911)
Toivo Kuula (1918)
João Arroyo (1930)
Leroy Anderson (1975)
David van de Woestijne (1979)
Jorge Oscar Pickenhayn (2002)

Music events

Premiere of Iphigénie en Tauride, in Paris, France. (1779) → Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Premiere of Le Roi Malgré Lui, in Paris, France. (1887) → Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier
Premiere of L'Apprenti Sorcier, in Paris, France. (1897) → Paul Dukas
Premiere of Parade, in Paris, France. (1917) → Erik Satie
Premiere of Volo di Notte, in Florence, Italy. (1940) → Luigi Dallapiccola
Premiere of Jesu Hochzeit, in Munich, Germany. (1980) → Gottfried von Einem

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