1979 in classical music

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Events

Establishments
24 February: Lulu, opera by Alban Berg (direction Patrice Chéreau, musical direction Pierre Boulez), created at the Opéra Garnier in the version completed by Friedrich Cerha.
March 15: The End of the Day, ballet by Kenneth MacMillan, created by the Royal Ballet of London.
March 25: Maddalena, opera by Prokofiev (written in 1913, orchestrated by Edward Downes), created by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra led by Edward Downes.
May 5th: Malcolm Arnold's Symphony, created by Julius Hegyi's wand in Troy (New York State).
June 14th: Music for a Large Ensemble by Steve Reich, created in Utrecht, Netherlands at the Holland Festival.
21 June: Octet by Steve Reich, created in Frankfurt, Germany.
19 October: Philip Glass dance on Lucinda Childs' choreography and a film by Sol LeWitt, created in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Concerto for piano and strings by Alfred Schnittke, created in St Petersburg by his dedication Vladimir Krainev as soloist and Alexander Dimitriev as conductor.

Other

January: New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Musikverein, directed by Willi Boskovsky.

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Foundation of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra by Ton Koopman.
Singapore Symphony Orchestra Foundation.
Foundation of the Endellion Quartet.
Petersen Quartet Foundation.
Foundation of Clementi-Trio.
Release on the screens of Don Giovanni, opera filmed by Joseph Losey.
First Maurice-André Trumpet Competition.
Creation of the Fritz-Kreisler International Violin Competition in Vienna.
Creation of the Conservatorio municipal de música José Iturbi in Valencia.

Prices
Pierre Boulez receives the Ernst von Siemens Prize.
Janet Baker receives the Léonie Sonning Music Award.
Olivier Messiaen receives the Bach Prize from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Births

26 January:
Vital Julian Frey, Swiss harpsichordist.
Kazuki Yamada, Japanese conductor.
February 16: Elizabeth Watts, British lyric soprano singer.
March 5: Lisa Batiashvili, Georgian violinist.
March 27: Daishin Kashimoto, Japanese violinist.
Mikko Franck, Finnish conductor.
7 April: Amanda Favier, French violinist.
April 11: Danielle de Niese, soprano singer and actress.
24 April: Francesca Verunelli, Italian composer.
May 18: Blagoj Nacoski, tenor lyric singer.
May 20: Stefan Prins, Belgian composer and musician.
31 May: Nicolas Baldeyrou, French clarinetist.
June 16: Guillaume Coppola, French pianist.
June 20: Jessica Pratt, Australian soprano.
28 June: Nélida Béjar, Spanish composer.
July 3: Maxime Zecchini, French pianist.
11 July: Antoine Tamestit, French altist.
July 17: Gianluca Cascioli, pianist, conductor and Italian composer.
19 July: Sanae Ishida, Japanese composer.
July 28: Sébastien Guèze, French opera singer.
August 18: Delphine Lizé,