Composer events for 1968

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Birthdays

Dying days

Luis Gianneo ()
Louis Aubert (10 January)
Iet Stants (3 February)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (13 February)
Healey Willan (16 February)
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco (16 March)
Borys Nikolayevich Lyatoshyns’ky (15 April)
Eda Rapoport (9 May)
André Mathieu (2 June)
Anna Cramer (4 June)
Fidelio Friedrich Finke (12 June)
Karl-Birger Blomdahl (14 June)
Hanns Wolf (2 July)
Leo Sowerby (7 July)
Jón Leifs (30 July)
Juan José Castro (5 September)
Karl Rankl (6 September)
Franz Reizenstein (15 October)
Guillaume Landré (6 November)
Jeanne Demessieux (11 November)
Marcel Labey (25 November)
Siegfried Reda (12 December)

Music events

Premiere of Musique pour les Soupers du Roi Ubu (scenic), in Düsseldorf, Germany. (25 April) → Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Premiere of Concerto per Violine Grande ed Orchestra, in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. (4 August) → Krzysztof Penderecki
Premiere of piano concerto no. 2, in Bielefeld, Germany. (29 September) → Hans Werner Henze
Premiere of Sinfonia, in New York, USA, with Berio conducting. (10 October) → Luciano Berio
Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Stockholm, Sweden. (13 October) → Gustaf Allan Pettersson
Premiere of Das Floß der Medusa, on NDR, a German broadcasting station. (9 December) → Hans Werner Henze

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Dutilleux dead at 97 posted 23 May 2013

Britten trail opened posted 3 Apr 2013

Tan Dun is Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO posted 29 Mar 2013

Michael Berkeley to be member of House of Lords posted 29 Mar 2013

Upcoming concerts →

Sat 1 Jun: Action Painting: The Edges of Sound Baruch Performing Arts Center

Sat 8 Jun: Symphony No 5 St Johns, Smith Sq, London, SW1P 3HA

Fri 14 Jun: Day of Wrath "The Revelation"- concert in Bucharest Cinema Patria, Bulevardul Magheru 12-14, Bucuresti, Romania

Sat 15 Jun: A North East Choral Garland The Ave, Washington, Tyne and Wear NE38 7LE

Sat 15 Jun: Viva Vivaldi! Bristol Cathedral College Green Bristol

Today → (25 May)

Birthdays:

Aleksey Fedorovich Lvov

Anatoly Alexandrov

Gilardo Gilardi

Dying days:

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Johann Rufinatscha

Gustav Theodore Holst

Robert Muczynski

Events:

(1870) Léo Delibes: Premiere of Coppélia, in Paris, France.

(1919) George Enescu: Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Bucarest, Romania.

(1930) George Antheil: Premiere of Transatlantic, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

(1938) William Schuman: Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in New York, USA.

(1961) Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco: Premiere of Il Mercante di Venezia, in Milan, Italy.

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Sabrina Peña Young (16 May)

Stanislas Verroust (16 May)

Karl Davydov (16 May)

Massimiliano Viel (16 May)

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