11-13a: Bruno Maderna : Satyricon / Gorli 1992 - Rossini Stabat Mater : Pavarotti / Kertész 1971 - Medtner Piano Concerto 1 & Piano Quintet / Alexeev 1994

1868 – Gioachino Rossini (Italian composer)
1951 – Nikolai Medtner [Никола́й Ме́тнер] (Russian composer & pianist)
1951 – Hugo Leichtentritt (German musicologist & composer, active in United States)
1967 – Harriet Cohen (English pianist)
1973 – Bruno Maderna (Italian conductor & composer)
1985 – G. Robert Vincent (American sound recording & archiving pioneer)
1986 – Rudolf Schock (German tenor)
1988 – Jaromír Vejvoda (Czech composer, "Beer Barrel Polka")

Well... we have Rossini; but we do not have Rossini opera! However, we do have opera! Dissonant, atonal, horrifying, avant-garde opera... mmmmmm...

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