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Udalscalcus

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Udalschalk, Abbot of St Ulrich’s and St Afra’s Abbey, also known in sources as Uodalscalc, Uodalschalus, Uodalscalcus, Odalschalchus and Udalscalcus was a German Benedictine historian, writer, composer and copyist, active in Augsburg, Konstanz and Rome. He was a minor literary opponent of the Imperial party during the Investiture Controversy. Life Monk Born in Augsburg, he debated the Imperial-invested Hermann II of Augsburg alongside Egino, who was then abbot and Udalschalk’s superior. This engagement is only recorded in the Uodalscalcus de Eginone et Herimanno (MG. SS. XII, 429), with Udalschalk accusing Hermann of making his brother, Patriarch Ulric of Aquleia, commit simony by bribing Henry IV so that Hermann could be invested as bishop by Henry. After Egino fled Augsberg in 1120, Udalschalk went to Konstanz, where he compiled the life of Bishop Conrad of Konstanz for the purpose of canonisation. At around the same time as the biography of Conrad’s completion in 1123, Udalschalk also wrote a biography of Adalbero of Augsberg. Abbot In 1125, he was unanimously elected as the Abbot of St Ulrich’s and St Afra’s Abbey, succeeding Wollemar. He compiled his registrum tonorum, a set o

Udo Kasemets

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Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was an Estonian Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lecturer, pianist, organist, teacher and writer. Kasemets was born in Tallinn, Estonia, and trained at the Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie der Musik in Stuttgart. In 1950, he attended the Kranichstein Institut für neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he became familiar with the music and philosophies of Ernst Krenek, Hermann Scherchen and Edgard Varèse. He emigrated to Canada in 1951, and became a Canadian citizen in 1957. From the 1950s, Kasemets was active in Hamilton and Toronto in Canada. He taught at the Royal Hamilton College of Music and served as conductor of the Hamilton Conservatory Chorus until 1957. He was music critic for the Toronto Daily Star 1959–63 and taught at the Brodie School of Music and Modern Dance 1963–67. In 1968, he directed the first Toronto Festival of Arts and Technology entitled SightSoundSystems and founded and edited a new music publication series, Canavangard. In 1971, Kasemets joined the Faculty of the Depa

Udo Zimmermann

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Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 Further reading * * Fritz Hennenberg: Udo Zimmermann. Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 1992, . * * External links * Udo Zimmermann, Breitkopf & Härtel * * Udo Zimmermann, Academy of Arts, Berlin * Udo Zimmermann , Sächsische Akademie der Künste * Udo Zimmermann , Archiv für Zeitgenössische Komponisten, Saxon State and University Library Dresden * Oper im 20. Jahrhundert, Springer, *