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1786 Birth of German-Danish pianist and composer Friedrich Daniel Rudolph KUHLAU nr. Hannover. d-Copenhagen, 12 MAR 1832.
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1786 Birth of German-Danish pianist and composer Friedrich Daniel Rudolph KUHLAU nr. Hannover. d-Copenhagen, 12 MAR 1832.
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1941 Birth of English conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher HOGWOOD in Nottingham.
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"Unfortunately I have to resign from my commitments in the near future with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and with the Orchestra Mozart due to health reasons, on my doctor's advice," he said in a statement issued by the Swiss festival.
"I will return to conducting in Bologna in the beginning of November."
Abbado, who had just completed several appearances at the Lucerne Festival in August and September, was due to open the concert season at Carnegie Hall with the festival's orchestra from October 3 to 7.
The 74-year-old former musical director of the Scala of Milan and the Vienna State Opera was treated for cancer in 2000......MORE...
French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard signs to Deutsche Grammophon...
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