Composer events for 5 November

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– Philip Glass gets commission from NYC Opera 30 Sep 2008
– Mauricio Kagel dies in Cologne at 76 19 Sep 2008
– New Mozart tune found in France 18 Sep 2008
– Nathan Currier wins International Sackler Award 18 Sep 2008

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– Sun 12 Oct: Stern Showcase Recital Palace Theater 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford CT 06901
– Sun 12 Oct: Birthday Tribute to Luciano Pavarotti Ventura College Theater,Ventura, California, USA
– Wed 15 Oct: Iron Rain Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland
– Wed 15 Oct: Opera For Piano Mannes College of Music, Manhattan, New York City, USA
– Thu 16 Oct: thingNY does Berio Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY (USA)

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Today → (12 Oct)

Birthdays:
– Bernardo Pisano
– Sylvius Leopold Weiss
– D. Pedro IV
– Ralph Vaughan Williams
– Healey Willan
Dying days:
– Giovanni Battista Vitali
Events:
– (1910) Ralph Vaughan Williams: Premiere of Symphony no. 1 “A Sea Symphony”, in Leeds, England.
– (1913) Max Reger: Premiere of Vier Tondichtungen nach Arnold Böcklin, in Essen, Germany.
– (1950) Irving Berlin: Premiere of Call Me Madam, in New York, USA.
– (1971) Andrew Lloyd Webber: Premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar, in New York, USA.

Tomorrow →

Latest changes →

– Sergio Fidemraizer (10 Oct)
– Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (9 Oct)
– Jan Adams (Johann Adam) Reinken (8 Oct)
– Richard Englefield (8 Oct)
– John Arrigo-Nelson (8 Oct)
– Arthur Butterworth (8 Oct)
– George Butterworth (8 Oct)
– Luís Carvalho (8 Oct)
– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Birthdays

Dying days

Pierre de Manchicourt (1564)
Vladimir Horowitz (1989)

Music events

Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in C major op. 61, in Leipzig, Germany, with Mendelssohn conducting. (1846) → Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in C major op. 61, in Leipzig, Germany, with Mendelssohn conducting. (1846) → Robert Schumann
Premiere of Má Vlast, in Prague, Czech Republic. (1882) → Bedřich Smetana
Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in e minor op. 64, in St. Petersburg, with Tchaikovsky conducting. (1888) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Premiere of Till Eulenspieges Lustige Streiche op. 28, in Cologne, Germany. (1895) → Richard Strauss
Premiere of violin concerto “L'Arbre des Songes”, in Paris, France. (1985) → Henri Dutilleux
Premiere of «Plus près de toi que tu ne l’es toi-même», for mixed choir a cappella, in New York City, USA. (2006) → Laurent Mettraux
First performance of "The Punch" (Version 3) in Holsted, Denmark (2006) → Peter Wallin

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