Composer events for 1958

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Birthdays

Premiere of La Terra e la Compagna, in Hamburg, Germany. (13 January) → Luigi Nono
Premiere of Vanessa, in New York, USA. (15 January) → Samuel Barber
Premiere of Estampes, in Louisville, USA. (4 February) → Bohuslav Martinů
Premiere of Musique Funèbre, Katowice, Poland. (26 March) → Witold Lutosławski
Premiere of Symphony no. 12, in Washington D.C., USA. (20 April) → Heitor Villa-Lobos
Premiere of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, in New York, USA. (15 May) → John Cage
Premiere of Zeitmaße, in Strasbourg, France. (12 June) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
Premiere of Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae, in Venice, Italy, with Stravinsky conducting. (23 September) → Igor Stravinsky
Premiere of Music Walk, in Düsseldorf, Germany. (14 October) → John Cage
Premiere of Undine, in London, England. (27 October) → Hans Werner Henze

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– Sat 17 May: 2nd Symphony Lobgesang Alcobaça, Portugal
– Sat 17 May: Second Symphony: Lobgesang Alcobaça, Portugal
– Sun 18 May: El Nino Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington DC, USA
– Sun 18 May: 2nd Symphony Lobgesang Aual Magna, Lisbon, Portugal
– Sun 18 May: Second Symphony: Lobgesang Aual Magna, Lisbon, Portugal
– Sun 18 May: "Kurt Weill, Thomas Bagwell & Diane McNaron" Artburst at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Homewood, Alabama, USA
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Birthdays:
– Lennox Berkeley
– Ludovic Lamothe
– Gabriel Fauré
– Jules Massenet
– Giovanni Battista Viotti
Dying days:
– Humphrey Searle
– Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
– Eugène Ysaÿe
– Ferdinand Hiller
– Bedrich Smetana
Events:
– (2005) Peter Wallin: First performance of "The end of Brian´s Brain" (Music Manifesto 2002, Part 23), in Billund, Denmark.
– (1938) Arthur Honegger: Premiere of Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, in Basel, Switzerland.
– (1917) Béla Bartók: Premiere of The Wooden Prince op. 13, in Budapest, Hungary.
– (1832) Gaetano Donizetti: Premiere of L'Elisir d'Amore, in Milan, Italy.

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