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Gershwin Prize awarded to McCartney 20 Nov 2009

Brazilian composer signs new contract in California 17 Nov 2009

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Walter Carsen Prize for Robert Aitken 21 Oct 2009

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Sat 21 Nov: Elijah Colston Hall, Bristol, UK

Sun 22 Nov: DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE: Complete organ works (6) Orsanmichele church, Florence, Italy

Mon 23 Nov: RAGA I (for percussion and orchestra) deSing

Sat 28 Nov: Contemporary piano music recital, Ljuba Moiz, piano Palazzo del Principe,Sala degli Argenti ,Genoa-Italy

Sun 29 Nov: A Concert by The Chiltern Camerata The Free Church, Woodside Road, Amersham, Bucks., England

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Birthdays:

Josef Triebensee

Francisco Tárrega

Alfred Matthew Hale

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Malcolm Williamson

Dying days:

António Marques Lésbio

Bernardo Pasquini

Leopold Godowsky

Events:

(1827) Gaetano Donizetti: Premiere of Viva la Mamma, in Naples, Italy.

(1831) Giacomo Meyerbeer: Premiere of Robert le Diable, in Paris, France.

(1901) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Feuersnot, in Dresden, Germany.

(1937) Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich: Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in c minor op. 47, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Edward Gonçalves Pinto (17 Nov)

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Birthdays

Dying days

D. Sancho I (1212)
Heinrich Isaac (1517)
Antonio de Cabezón (1566)
(Joncker) Jacob van Eyck (1657)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1827)
François Joseph Fétis (1871)
César Antonowich Cui (1918)
Augusto Machado (1924)
Emiel Hullebroeck (1965)
Madeleine Winefride Isabelle Dring (1977)

Music events

Premiere of piano concerto in B flat major KV 450, in Vienna, Austria, with Mozart at the piano. (1784) → Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart
Premiere of Die Zirkusprinzessin, in Vienna, Austria. (1926) → Emmerich Kálmán
Premiere of Le Vin Herbé, in Zürich, Switzerland. (1942) → Frank Martin
Premiere of The Minotaur, in New York, USA. (1947) → Elliott Carter
Premiere of the piano concerto op. 28, in Göttingen, Germany. (1948) → Boris Blacher
Premiere of L'Atlantide, in Mulhouse, France. (1954) → Henri Tomasi
Premiere of Musique Funèbre, Katowice, Poland. (1958) → Witold Lutosławski

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