December

Marius Felix Lange's Opera “Snow White” in France
Marius Felix Lange`s well-known opera for children and adults “Snow White” is being presented in France by the Opéra national du Rhin under the title ...

The Hague: Dutch Premiere of Alfred Schnittke’s “Nagasaki”
Alfred Schnittke`s oratorio “Nagasaki”, composed in 1958 as a diploma thesis, stands at the beginning of the composer`s oeuvre. The work is based on poems by Russian and Japanese ...

“The King of the Modern Orchestra” - Rodion Shchedrin’s 80th Birthday
Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most important and worldwide best-known Russian composers in succession to Dmitri Shostakovich. When Shostakovich died in 1975, Shchedrin was ...

20 Years of Ensemble SurPlus: World Premiere of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf’s “Hommage à Daniel Libeskind Volume II”
The Freiburg composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was commissioned by the Freiburg Ensemble SurPlus (with the support of the ...

Nuremberg: World Premiere of Moritz Eggert’s “Reformation“
On 8 December 2012 Moritz Eggert’s new work “Reformation“ for brass ensemble receives it’s world premiere in the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg. The 1997 founded ...

Premieres of Works by Sofia Gubaidulina in Belgium, Poland, Russia and the USA
At the end of the year, in December 2012, there will be four local premieres of works by the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Gubaidulina`s work “Labyrinth” for 12 violoncelli will ...