Composer events for 1990
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Dying days
- Agustin Castellon Compos (Sabicus) ()
- Juan Francisco Giacobbe ()
- Pedro do Prado ()
- Vladimir Ussachevsky (2 January)
- Paul Amadeus Pisk (12 January)
- Francine Benoit (27 January)
- Peter Racine Fricker (1 February)
- Erkki Aaltonen (8 March)
- Ernst Bacon (16 March)
- William Levi Dawson (4 May)
- Luigi Nono (8 May)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (25 June)
- Leonard Bernstein (14 October)
- Aaron Copland (2 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Cantata per l'Europa, in Rome, Italy, (4 February) → Ennio Morricone
- Premiere of Visions, in Chicago, USA. (8 March) → Toru Takemitsu
- Premiere of Canto VI, in Stuttgart, Germany. (9 March) → Hans Zender
- Premiere of Machaut à la Manière, in Hamburg, Germany. (10 March) → Harrison Birtwistle
- Premiere of Konturen, in Braunschweig, Germany. (18 March) → Isang Yun
- First live performance of "The Fright of the Unknown", in Lund, Sweden. (1 April) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Beiseit, in Witten, Germany. (26 April) → Heinz Holliger
- Premiere of Das Verratene Meer, in Berlin, Germany. (5 May) → Hans Werner Henze
- Premiere of 63: Dream Palace, in Munich, Germany. (6 May) → Hans-Jürgen von Bose
- Premiere of Opus Sine Nomine, in Vienna, Austria. (8 May) → Ernst Krenek
- Premiere of Klagegesang, in Pittsburgh, USA. (11 May) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- First performance of the 1989 version of "Tre Stämningar", in Esbjerg, Denmark. (16 May) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Konzert, in Vienna, Austria. (16 May) → Jean Françaix
- Premiere of Ungemahltes Bild, in Stockholm, Sweden. (17 May) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of Berliner Messe, in Berlin, Germany. (24 May) → Arvo Pärt
- Premiere of the violin concerto, in Evian, France. (27 May) → Alfred Schnittke
- Premiere of Requiem, Missa di Pace, in Moscow, Russia. (11 June) → Leon Kirchner
- Premiere of My Way of Life, in Leeds, England. (30 June) → Toru Takemitsu
- Premiere of Mein Tod. Requiem in Memoriam Jane S., in Slazburg, Austria. (18 August) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of Freispruch für Medea, in Hamburg, Germany. (26 August) → Rolf Liebermann
- Premiere of piano concerto, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (24 September) → Albert Biales
- Premiere of Kammerkonzert II, in Berlin, Germany. (21 October) → Isang Yun
- Premiere of Ausgerechnet und Verspielt, in Bielefeld, Germany. (27 October) → Ernst Krenek
- Premiere of Liturgien, in Cologne, Germany. (2 November) → Mauricio Kagel
- Premiere of violin concerto (3 parts), in Cologne, Germany. (3 November) → György Sándor Ligeti
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