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Kaija Saariaho, prominent Finish contemporary composer, was born on this day in 1952. Unfortunatelly, we've lost her in 2023. Here is one fine example of her music writing, second movement - ''Winter Sky'' - from her orchestral composition called ''Orion''. Judge for yourself.

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On 14th of October 1843 was a premiere performance of incidental music for Shakespeare's play ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' by Felix Mendelssohn. That was a comission of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia for the theater in new palace in Potsdam. Mendelssohn was a music director of the King's Academy of the Arts and of Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra those days. Mendelssohn wrote the overture in 1826 and incorporated it to this, newly composed 14 numbers for play.Here is enchanting, sprightly chattering ''Scherzo'', one of the highlights of this music gem. Enjoy.

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14. October - birthdays: - Franz Anton Dimmler (1753) - Camille Chevilard (1859) - Alexander (von) Zemlinsky (1871) - La Monte Young (1935) - Kaija Saariaho (1952) - Jose Luccioni, tenore (1903)premieres: - F. Mendelssohn - incidental music for ''The Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1848) Berlin, Potsdam - A. Dvorak - Violin Concerto (1888) Prague, František Ondriček - violin, Antonin Dvorak - conductor - W. Lutoslawski - Cello Concerto (1970) Royal Festival Hall, London, Mstislav Rostropovich - cello, Edward Downes - conductor - A. Zandonai - ''Conchita'' (1911) Teatro dal Verme, Milano - A. Schoenberg - ''Der glucklische Hand'' (1924) Volksoper, Vienna - A. Zemlinsky - ''Der Kreidekreis'' (1933) Stadttheater, Zurich

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On 14th of October were born: - Cliff Richard (1940) ''Young ones'', ''Congratulations'', ''Honey we don't talk anymore'', ''Devil woman'', ''Silvery rain'', ''With the eyes of a child'', ''It's over'') - Justin Hayward, vocal & guitar (1946) Moody Blues (''Nights in white satin'', ''Never comes the day'', ''Question'', ''Story in your eyes'', ''In a wildest dream'', ''Forever autumn'') - Dan Mc Cafferty, vocal (1946) Nazareth (''Morning dew'', ''Broken down angel'', ''Bad bad boy'', ''This flight tonight'', ''Love hurts'', ''Out of time'') - Robert Parker, soul vocal & sax (1930) ''Barefootin'' - Al Atkins, vocal (1947) Judas Priest - Tony Duran, slide guitar (1945) Frank Zappa - Billy Harrison, guitar & vocal (1942) Them (''Baby please don't go'') - Denis D'Ell, vocal (1943) Honeycombs (''Have I the right'', ''That's the way'') - Colin Hodgkinson, bass (1945) Whitesnake - Ivory Tilmon (1948) Detroit Emeralds (''Could it be I'm falling in love'', ''Feel the need in me'') -Marcia Barrett (1948) Boney M (''Belfast'', ''Rivers of Babylon'') - Chris Amoo (1952) Real Thing (''You to me are everything'') - Thomas Dolby, keys & synthesizers(1958) ''She blinded me with silence'' - Natalie Maines (1974) DiXie Chics - Spencer Williams, jazz piano & singer (1889) - Jewell ''Babe'' Stovall, blues guitar (1907) - Duško Gojković, jazz trumpet (1931) - Jerry Le Duff, congas (1943) - Kazumi Watanabe, jazz-fusion guitar (1953) - Garrison Fewell, jazz guitar (1953) - Matthew Parrish, jazz double bass (1969)

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On 13th of October 1940 was born great voice of British rock and blues, Chris Farlowe, singer with Colosseum and Atomic Rooster and also successful solo singer with ''Out of time'' from 1966.From his glory days with Colosseum here is Jack Bruce - Peter Brown's song ''Theme from an imaginary western'' issued on their 1970 album ''Daughter of time''. Remember?

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Happy birthday to famous Greek singer Ioanna ''Nana'' Mouskouri, who was born on this day in 1934. She is one of the greatest Europian singers and stars, with more than 300 millions sold records, sang on 12 languages. Here is her lovely home loving song ''The White Rose of Athens'' in lovely live performance.

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On 13th of October 1910 was born one of the greatest (if not the greatest) jazz pianists in history - Art Tatum. With almost no match in technic and invention, he was ''notorious'' among pianists. Here is his famous rendering of a theme ''Tiger rag''. Enjoy.

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Today is a birthday to the one of the greatest musicians and composers in rock era, Paul Simon, who was born on 13th of October 1941. From the glory days with Simon & Garfunkel till today, his opus was always high in standards, innovative and actual. Listen to this awesome live performance of his theme ''Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes'', from The African Concert in 1987. Enjoy.

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Antonio Pasculli, legendary XIX century Italian oboist (Paganini of oboe) and composer, was born on 13th of October 1842. He was a great forerunner of modern oboe technics - in breathing, tonguing and neck-breaking technical playing. Here is excellent example in his ''Concerto for oboe & orchestra on themes from Donizetti's opera La Favorita'' in appalling performance of my dear colleague, maestro Francois Leleux. Enjoy.

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13. October - birthdays: - Johann Heinrich Kittel (1652) - Anselm Huttenbrener (1794) - Antonio Pasculli, oboe & composer (1842) - Andre Navarra, cello (1911) - Josephine Fodor-Mainville, soprano (1789) - Johanna Wagner, soprano (1829) first Elisabeth in ''Tannhauser'' by Richard Wagner and premiere of ''Die Walkure'' in 1876 in Bayreuth - Jelizaveta Lavrovskaya, mezzo-soprano (1849)premieres: - T. Takemitsu - ''Quotation of Dream'' double piano concerto (1991) Barbican Hall, London, Paul Crossley & Peter Serkin - pianos, Michael Tilson-Thomas - conductor - A. Adam - ''Le postillon de Longjumeau'' (1836) Opera-Comique, Paris

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