Composer events for 19 May

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Hildegard now officially a saint posted 14 May 2012

Poland's highest honour for Wojciech Kilar posted 4 May 2012

Kevin Puts wins 2012 Pullitzer Prize posted 20 Apr 2012

Korean prize for Unsuk Chin posted 16 Apr 2012

Upcoming concerts →

Tue 29 May: Composers Voice Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York

Sat 2 Jun: Music for a Royal Occasion Middleton Parish Church, New Lane, Middleton Manchester M24

Fri 8 Jun: Vienna Here and Now St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E, Toronto

Fri 8 Jun: Shakuhachi Concert Raixa, Bunyola, Spain

Sat 9 Jun: The Waters of Tyne & Ruhr St James's United Reform Church, Northumberland Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8JF

Today → (27 May)

Birthdays:

Jacques-François Halévy

Joseph Joachim Raff

Claude Champagne

Dying days:

Giovanni Legrenzi

Giacomo Rampini

Nicoló Paganini

Events:

(1906) Gustav Mahler: Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in a minor, in Essen, Germany, with Mahler conducting.

(1990) Alfred Schnittke: Premiere of the violin concerto, in Evian, France.

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Latest changes →

Steve Cohen (16 May)

Anna Cramer (16 May)

Thomas Koppel (16 May)

Iet Stants (16 May)

Marc Hyland (16 May)

Hildegard von Bingen (14 May)

Claude Lefebvre (7 May)

Wim Franken (26 Apr)

Johann August Just (26 Apr)

Francesco Zappa (25 Apr)

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Antonio Vivaldi [956]

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Ludwig van Beethoven [480]

Johann Sebastian Bach [467]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel [452]

Johannes Brahms [440]

Antonio Salieri [440]

Gustav Mahler [438]

Georges Bizet [426]

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Birthdays

Dying days

René Drouard [Drouart] de Bousset (1760)
John Stanley (1786)
Alphonse Hasselmans (1912)
Charles Martin Loeffler (1935)
Charles Ives (1954)
Hans Vogt (1992)
Nicholas Maw (2009)

MusicAtlas events

(1884) De Kleyne Moriaen → Aarschot → Arthur Meulemans

Music events

Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in c minor op. 78 “Organ symphony”, in London, England, with Saint-Saëns conducting. (1886) → Camille Saint-Saëns
Premiere of L'Heure Espagnol, in Paris, France. (1911) → Maurice Ravel
Premiere of What Where, Frankfurt, Germany. (1989) → Heinz Holliger

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