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The Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös has died in Budapest at the age of 80 after a prolonged illness, his family announced on Sunday according to Hungarian media. Eötvös was internationally acclaimed for his contemporary music works inspired by the likes of Zoltan Kodaly, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. His preoccupation with space from an early age is said to have informed his works, and his Opus No. 1, the piano piece "Cosmos", was meant to evoke the first journey into space made by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This was later followed by 10 operas and orchestr...
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Internationally renowned Italian pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini has died at the age of 82, the Teatro alla Scala opera house in his native Milan said on Saturday. The Scala was mourning "one of the great musicians of our time," it said. Pollini, whose repertoire stretched across the major piano works of classical music to contemporary music, had his breakthrough at the age of 18, winning Warsaw's renowned international Chopin Piano Competition in 1960 which is dedicated to the works of the Polish composer. The head of the jury at the time, piano legend Arthur Rubinstein, praised Pollin...
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Internationally renowned Italian pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini has died at the age of 82, the Teatro alla Scala opera house in his native Milan said on Saturday. The Scala was mourning "one of the great musicians of our time," it said. Pollini, whose repertoire stretched across the major piano works of classical music to contemporary music, had his breakthrough at the age of 18, winning Warsaw's renowned international Chopin Piano Competition in 1960 which is dedicated to the works of the Polish composer. The head of the jury at the time, piano legend Arthur Rubinstein, praised Pollin...
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Internationally renowned Italian pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini has died at the age of 82, the Teatro alla Scala opera house in his native Milan said on Saturday. The Scala was mourning "one of the great musicians of our time," it said. Pollini, whose repertoire stretched across the major piano works of classical music to contemporary music, had his breakthrough at the age of 18, winning Warsaw's renowned international Chopin Piano Competition in 1960 which is dedicated to the works of the Polish composer. The head of the jury at the time, piano legend Arthur Rubinstein, praised Pollin...
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Das ehemalige Topmodel Pattie Boyd war mit gleich zwei bekannten Musikern verheiratet - mit dem früheren Beatle George Harrison und dem Gitarristen Eric Clapton. Erinnerungsstücke aus ihrer Vergangenheit sind in London nun für rund 2,8 Millionen Pfund (umgerechnet rund 3,3 Millionen Euro) versteigert worden, wie das Auktionshaus Christie's mitteilte. Versteigert wurde zum Beispiel ein Liebesbrief, den Clapton auf eine Seite des Romans «Von Mäusen und Menschen» schrieb. Darin fragte er Boyd 1971, warum sie noch zögere, ob er ein schlechter Liebhaber sei oder hässlich, zu schwach, zu stark? Boyd...
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Für Rod Stewart ist die US-amerikanische Musikerin Taylor Swift «astronomisch». Das sagte der 79-Jährige der Düsseldorfer «Rheinischen Post». «Sie hat die größte Tournee aller Zeiten. Bisher haben die Stones das immer gehabt», sagte er. Außerdem möge er «die Vorstellung, dass sie sagt: Wir dürfen nicht für Trump stimmen. Sie hätte die Macht dazu.» Schon länger gibt es aufgeregte Debatten darüber, ob der Popstar erneut den Demokraten Joe Biden unterstützen könnte, wie schon 2020. Bisher hat die 34-Jährige das nicht getan - aber ihre Anhänger zum Wählen aufgefordert. Der Brite Stewart, der kürzl...
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Bavarian politician Heike Heubach will become the first deaf member of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, this week. Heubach, a 44-year-old Social Democrat (SPD), is slated to take the seat of current SPD lawmaker Uli Grötsch, who is leaving the Bundestag to serve as the commissioner of Germany's Federal Police. Heubach stood as a candidate in the Augsburg-Land constituency in the 2021 parliamentary elections, but she was narrowly defeated. The president of the German Federation of the Deaf, Helmut Vogel, called Heubach's selection for the Bundestag "a significant step for the sign-language ...
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Star US film director Wes Anderson plans to produce at least part of his next film at Germany's storied Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam, located just outside Berlin. The title of the film has not been revealed, but Medienboard, a film funding agency for Berlin and the surrounding German state of Brandenburg, named Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera and Bill Murray as stars. "After filming had to be postponed last year due to strikes in the US, it is a great pleasure for Berlin-Brandenburg that the exceptional director and newly crowned Oscar winner Wes Anderson is filming in the Babelsberg studios," ...
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The German Catholic Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, who led the Vatican's charitable and disaster-relief work for a number of years, died in Rome on Friday. He was 89 years old. The German Bishops' Conference (DBK) announced his death. The German clergyman moved to the Vatican in 1980 after being appointed vice president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity by then-Pope John Paul II. In 1995, Cordes was named leader of "Cor Unum," the Vatican's charitable and disaster-relief organization, which he continued to lead until 2010. He was made a cardinal in 2007 by then-Pope Benedict XVI, a fellow G...
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Patriarch Neofit, the leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox church, died on Wednesday evening at the age of 78, the main secretary of the church council said. Patriarch Neofit died of multiple organ failure in The Military Medical Academy of Sofia after a long illness, said Bishop Gerasim. The head of the church had been receiving treatment there for a lung disease since the end of November 2023. Neofit had been elected as head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in February 2013 and was also Bishop of the capital Sofia. Neofit was born on October 15, 1945 in the Bulgarian capital and became Metropoli...
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