Composer events for 1986
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Birthdays
- Jordan Charles Witherspoon (7 February)
- Bruno Vlahek (11 February)
- Tom Staples (10 June)
- Robert Bethea (22 July)
- Jason Rudolf (10 September)
- Edward Southall (24 December)
Dying days
- Horacio López de la Rosa ()
- Serge Garant ()
- Stjepan Šulek (16 January)
- Edmund Rubbra (14 February)
- Francisco Paolo Mignone (18 February)
- Antonio Lauro (18 April)
- Dag Ivar Wirén (19 April)
- Ruy Coelho (5 May)
- Maurice Duruflé (16 June)
- Flor Peeters (4 July)
- Alexandre Tansman (15 November)
- Lajos Bárdos (18 November)
- Lars Erik Larsson (27 December)
Music events
- Premiere of The Desert Music, in Richmond (Va.), USA. (10 January) → Steve Reich
- Premiere of Belshazar, in Munich, Germany. (25 January) → Leon Kirchner
- Premiere of L'Écume des Jours, in Paris, France. (15 March) → Edison Denisov
- Premiere of Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (30 April) → Hans-Jürgen von Bose
- Premiere of The Mask of Orpheus, in London, England. (21 May) → Harrison Birtwistle
- Premiere of Coptic Light, in New York, USA. (30 May) → Morton Feldman
- Premiere of Chimäre, in Aachen, Germany. (11 June) → Hans-Jürgen von Bose
- Premiere of Stephen Climax, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (15 June) → Hans Zender
- Premiere of Orpheus, in Vienna, Austria. (20 June) → Hans Werner Henze
- Premiere of Troades, in Munich, Germany. (6 July) → Aribert Reimann
- Premiere of Die Schwarze Maske, in Salzburg, Austria. (15 August) → Krzysztof Penderecki
- Premiere of Evas Lied (Szene aus Evas Zweigeburt), in Berlin, Germany. (3 September) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Premiere of “Stimmen... Verstummen”, in Berlin, Germany. (4 September) → Sofia Gubaidulina
- Premiere of The Phantom of the Opera, in London, England. (9 October) → Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Premiere of piano concerto (parts 1 and 3), in Graz, Austria. (23 October) → György Sándor Ligeti
- Premiere of violin concerto “Offertorium” (third version), in London, England. (2 November) → Sofia Gubaidulina
- First performance of "Visions", in Lund, Sweden. (9 November) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Chain III, in San Fransisco, USA. (10 December) → Witold Lutosławski
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