Composer events for 1927

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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

Augusto Rattembach ()
Emma Lou Diemer ()
John Diercks ()
Reinhold Weber ()
Theldon Myers ()
Werner Wagner ()
Donald James Erb (17 January)
Pierre Mercure (1 February)
Walter Hartley (21 February)
Filipe de Sousa (15 March)
John Joubert (20 March)
Rowan Taylor (7 April)
David Barlow (20 May)
Franco Donatoni (9 June)
Simeon Pironkoff (16 June)
Mathieu Dijker (29 June)
Michael Gielen (20 July)
Giuseppe Giorgio Englert (22 July)
Wilfred Josephs (24 July)
Claudio Guidi Drei (17 August)
Piet Kee (30 August)
Graham Whettam (7 September)
Thomas Brendan Wilson (10 October)
Vittorio Fellegara (4 November)
Jacques Bondon (6 December)
Pierre Henry (9 December)

Dying days

Richard Eilenberg ()
Robert Fuchs (19 February)
Gustav Hanns Struempel (6 November)
Ole Olsen (9 November)
Vilhelm Eugene Stenhammar (20 November)

Music events

Premiere of of the Lyrische Suite, in Vienna, Austria. (8 January) → Alban Berg
Premiere of Penthesilea, in Dresden, Germany. (8 January) → Othmar Schoeck
Premiere of the piano concerto, in Boston, USA. (28 January) → Aaron Copland
Premiere of Angélique, in Paris, France. (28 January) → Jacques-François Ibert
Premiere of Jonny Spielt Auf, in Leipzig, Germany. (10 February) → Ernst Křenek
Premiere of Der Zarewitsch, in Budapest, Hungary. (21 February) → Franz Lehár
Premiere of piano concerto no. 4 in g minor op. 40, in Philadelphia, USA, with Rachmaninov at the piano. (18 March) → Sergey Rachmaninoff
Premiere of chamber concert for piano, violin and 12 wind instruments, in Berlin, Germany. (27 March) → Alban Berg
Premiere of Arcana, in Philadelphia, USA. (8 April) → Edgard Varèse
Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in F major, in New York, USA. (10 April) → George Antheil
Premiere of Oedipus Rex, in Paris, France. (30 May) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of The Red Poppy, in Moscow, Russia. (14 June) → Reinhold Moritzovich Glière
Premiere of piano concerto no. 1, in Frankfurt am Main, with Bartók at the piano. (1 July) → Béla Bartók
Premiere of Hin und Zurück, in Baden-Baden, Germany. (17 July) → Paul Hindemith
Premiere of the Glagolitic Mass, in Brno, Czech Republic. (5 December) → Leoš Janáček
Premiere of the Háry János Suite, in New York, USA. (15 December) → Zoltán Kodály
Premiere of Le pauvre Matelot, in Paris, France. (16 December) → Darius Milhaud
Premiere of The Case Macropulos, in Brno, Czech Republic. (18 December) → Leoš Janáček
Premiere of Sly, in Milan, Italy. (29 December) → Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

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