Notable
Anniversaries for 2009
Compiled by Brendan Sadler
(of the Street and Glastonbury Recorded Music Society)
Composers
This
year there are fewer than usual important composer anniversaries.
The most significant are Handel (d.1759), Haydn (d.1809) and
Mendelssohn (b.1809).
Performers
In terms of performers we are somewhat spoiled for choice:
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80th
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Paavo Berglund (14th April)
Nicklaus Harnoncourt (6th December) André Previn (6th April) |
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70th
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James
Galway (8th December)
Philip Langridge (16th December) Robert Tear (8th March |
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60th
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Jane
Glover (13th May)
Emma Kirkby (27th February) The London Mozart Players |
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50th
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The
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
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2008
also sees the centenary of the birth of Herbert Von Karajan
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2009
the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Gerard Hoffnung
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Composers: (b = born; d = died)
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10.9.1659
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Purcell,
Henry (ng) b
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8.2.1709
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Torelli,
Giuseppe (It) d
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16.2.1709
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Avison,
Charles (Eng) b
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10.4.1709
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Corrette,
Michel (Fr) b
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22.11.1709
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Benda,
Frantisek (Franz) (Boh) b
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1.12.1709
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Richter, Franz Xaver (Mor) b
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18
05 1759
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Paradis,
Maria-Theresia Von (Aust) bap
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14
06 1759
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Handel,
George Frederic (Ger/Eng) d
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31.1.1759
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Devienne,
François (Fr) b
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8.8.1759
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Graun, Carl Heinrich (Ger) d
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27.11.1759
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Krommer, Franz Vincenz (Boh) b
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7.3.1809
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Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg (Aust) d
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31.12.1809
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Beck, Franz Ignaz (Ger) d
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03
02 1809
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Mendelssohn, Felix (Ger) b
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31
05 1809
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Haydn, Josef (Aust) d
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07
11 1859
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Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail (Russ) b
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22.10.1859
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Spohr, Louis (Ger) d
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1.6.1909
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Martucci, Giuseppe (It) d
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22.7.1909
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Bystrom, Oscar Bernadotte (Swed) d
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8
05 1909
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1
Albeniz, Isaac (Spain) d
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20
12 1909
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Holmboe, Vagn (Dan) b
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12
02 1959
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Antheil, George (US) d
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15
07 1959
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Bloch Ernest, (Switz) d
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16
07 1959
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MacMillan, James (Scot) b
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18
07 1959
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Dove, Jonathan, (Eng) b
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28
08 1959
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Martin", Bohuslav (Czech) d
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16
10 1959
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Tüür,
Erik Sven (Est) b
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17
11 1959
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Villa-Lobos, Heitor (Braz) d
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With thanks for contributions from Roger Hughes
Compositions (fp = first performance; p = published)
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1709
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Couperin, F Messe à Usage de Convents Vivaldi Sonata for Violin and Continuo, op2 (p) |
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1759
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Gluck
Opera, L'Arbre Enchanté
Haydn Symphony No.1 in D major Telemann St Mark Passion |
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1809
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Beethoven
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral (p)
Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor String Quartet No. 10, Harp Piano Trios Nos. 4 & 5 (p) Cello Sonata No. 3 (p) Rossini Variations for Clarinet and Orch |
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1859
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Berwald
Cello Sonata (p)
Brahms Marienlieder for four-part choir String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Cui Opera, The Mandarin's Son DvoÍák Mass in B flat Liszt Symphonic Poem, Hamlet Die Ideale for Orchestra Meyerbeer Opera, Dinorah |
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1909
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Debussy
Rondes de Printemps (from Images)
Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra Preludes, Book 1 Elgar Elegy for String Orchestra Hamilton Sinfonia for Two Orchstras Holst First Suite for Military Band Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Liadov Symphonic Poem, The Enchanted Lake Lehár Operetta, The Count of Luxembourg Mahler Symphony No. 9 Reger String Quartet Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra Monodrama, Erwartung Scriabin Poem of Fire - Prometheus Sibelius Tone Poem, Night Ride & Sunrise V. Williams A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) Incidental Music, The Wasps Song Cycle, On Wenlock Edge Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 |
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1959
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Alwyn
Symphony No. 4
Arnold Guitar Concerto Oboe Quartet; Six Songs of Wm. Blake Barber Opera, A Hand of Bridge Berio Tempi Concertati for Instruments Berkeley Sonatina for Two Pianos Boulez Tombeau for Orchestra (fp) Britten Cantata Academica, Carmen Basiliense Diamond Symphony No. 7 Fricker Toccata for Piano and Orchestra Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 Goehr Four Songs from the Japanese Henze Opera, Elegy for Young Lovers Ballet, The Emperor's Nightingale Piano Sonata Hoddinott Piano Sonata No. 1 (fp) Lutoslawski Dance Preludes (third version) Malipiero Six Poems of Dylan Thomas Martin Oratorio, La Mystére de la Nativité Musgrave Tryptich for Tenor and Orchestra Piston Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra Three New England Sketches Poulenc Gloria Rawsthorne Symphony No. 2 Rochberg String Quartet No. 2 Rubbra Violin Concerto Seiber Improvisations for Jazz Band & Orch, Shapey Violin Concerto Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 Stockhausen Carré for 4 Orchestras and 4 Choirs Kontakte, for electronic sounds Stravinsky Movements for Piano and Orchestra Epitaphium for Flute, Clarinet & Harp |