Composer events for 1905

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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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Michael Tippett (2 January)
Giacinto Scelsi (8 January)
Ernesto Halffter Escriche (16 January)
Luis Meneses Sandi (22 February)
Guillaume Landré (24 February)
Marc Blitzstein (2 March)
Eugène Bozza (4 April)
Jef Maes (5 April)
Alan Rawsthorne (2 May)
Inglis Gundry (5 May)
Eric(h) Zeisl (18 May)
Eduard Tubin (18 June)
Walter Leigh (22 June)
Johann Sebastian Brandts Buys (28 June)
Erich Itor Kahn (23 July)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August)
André Jolivet (8 August)
Constant Lambert (23 August)
Léon Orthel (4 October)
Dag Ivar Wirén (15 October)
William Alwyn (7 November)
Heikki Johannes Aaltoila (12 November)
Piet Ketting (29 November)

Dying days

Guiseppe Gariboldi (12 April)
Karl Komzak (23 April)
Ignacio Cervantes (29 April)
Andrey Schulz-Evler (15 May)
Albert Ellmenreich (30 May)
Franz Strauss (31 May)

Music events

Premiere of Sinfonie Singulière, in Stockholm, Sweden. (10 January) → Franz Berwald
Premiere of Tiefland (final version), in Magdeburg, Germany. (16 January) → Eugen d’Albert
Premiere of Pelleas und Melisande op. 5, in Vienna, Austria, with Schönberg conducting. (26 January) → Arnold Schoenberg
Premiere of Kindertotenlieder, in Vienna, Austria, with Mahler conducting. (29 January) → Gustav Mahler
Premiere of the violin concerto in a minor op. 82, in St. Petersburg, with Glazunov conducting. (4 March) → Alexander Glazunov
Premiere of Introduction and Allegro for strings, in London, England. (8 March) → Edward Elgar
Premiere of Alborada del Gracioso, in Paris, France. (17 May) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of La Mer, in Paris, France. (15 October) → Claude Debussy
Premiere of Salome, in Dresden, Germany. (9 December) → Richard Strauss
Premiere of Die Lustige Witwe, in Vienna, Austria. (28 December) → Franz Lehár

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