Composer events for 1980
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Birthdays
- Asha Srinivasan ()
- David Coll ()
- Mat Martin ()
- Graham John Wilson (22 April)
- Roni Alec Liebenson (22 April)
- Brad Stark (27 April)
- Alexandra Barkovskaya (25 May)
- Keith Goodman (27 June)
- Matthew Logan (6 August)
- Thomas Dempster (20 August)
- Kerry Cobuccio (26 September)
- Brett Branning (7 October)
- Man-Ching "Donald" Yu (16 November)
Dying days
- Franco Evangelisti ()
- Pascual De Rogatis ()
- Sverre Bergh ()
- Frederico de Freitas (12 January)
- Rudolf Escher (17 March)
- Gustaf Allan Pettersson (20 June)
- Leopold Spinner (12 August)
- Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen (12 November)
- Alec Wilder (24 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Die Erschöpfung der Welt, in Stuttgart, Germany. (9 February) → Mauricio Kagel
- Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in New York, USA. (1 May) → Krzysztof Penderecki
- Premiere of Jesu Hochzeit, in Munich, Germany. (18 May) → Gottfried von Einem
- Premiere of Fragmente — Stille, An Diotima, in Bonn, Germany. (2 June) → Luigi Nono
- Premiere of Pollicino, in Monte Pulciano, Italy. (2 August) → Hans Werner Henze
- Premiere of The Lighthouse, in Edinburgh, Scotland. (2 September) → Peter Maxwell Davies
- Premiere of Zweite Abgesangsszene für Orchester, in Karlsruhe, Germany. (5 October) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of Im Tal der Zeit, in Graz, Austria. (26 October) → Ernst Krenek
- Premiere of Requiem, in Moscow, Russia. (30 October) → Edison Denisov
- Premiere of concerto for piano and orchestra, in Cologne, Germany. (14 November) → György Sándor Ligeti
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