Talk:Nikolaos Skalkottas

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Was Skalkottas born in 1901 or in 1904? Quite a few sources give the latter. Schissel : bowl listen 19:47, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Slonimsky has a birth date of 8 March 1904. I certainly believe the year is correct.

But I'm not sure about the day. The Friends of Skalkottas website says his OS birth date was 8 March, which equates to 21 March NS. But the 8 March quoted by Slonimsky is supposedly NS, having been converted from 24 February OS. They can't both be right. It wouldn't be the first time an official website has blundered with its subject's birth date. Maybe they just assumed 8 March was OS and made the conversion. But I have caught Slonimsky out in a small handful of errors, so maybe this is another. I guess only a birth certificate would settle it. JackofOz 01:38, 8 April 2006 (UTC)