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This month's contest

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:16:00 +0200

Every month the library staff chooses a musical fragment for you to identify.

This is the contest for September: From which song is this a fragment? (name its title and composer(s)).
Cryptic hint: Can one have her for breakfast?
Click here for more information.

We congratulate Bart Diels for being the winner of the July/August contest.
The correct answer: Val's from: Sûita dlâ estradnogo orkestra (Suite for variety stage orchestra) by Dmitry Shostakovich.

Contests 2010

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:06:00 +0200

7/2010

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:02:00 +0200

Hans Ulrich HUMPERT

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:46:00 +0200

On the 29th of August German composer Hans Ulrich Humpert (1940-2010) died. Together with Karlheinz Stockhausen he is considered to be a pioneer in the field of electronic music (at the famous WDR-studio in Cologne).

Overview of editions of Humpert's compositions in our sheet music catalogue.

In memoriam in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German)

FASTLINKS:
† Composers who died in 2010
† Composers who died in 2009

100 years ... Bernhard HEIDEN

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:41:00 +0200

On August 24th American composer Bernhard Heiden (1910-2000) was born exactly 100 years ago.
The music library possesses the autograph of a 1933 piano concerto.