Composer anniversaries
To support your concert program planning, we have listed below composer anniversaries for the next years.
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Anniversaries 2024 |
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Johann Sebastian Bach | 1724/25 | Leipzig cantata cycle II | ||||||
Anton Bruckner | 1824–1894 | 200th anniversary | ||||||
Giacomo Carissimi | 1605–1674 | 350th anniversary of death | ||||||
Peter Cornelius | 1824–1874 | 200th anniversary & 150th anniversary of death | ||||||
Gabriel Fauré | 1845–1924 | 100th anniversary of death | ||||||
Niccolò Jommelli | 1714–1774 | 250th anniversary of death | ||||||
Reinhard Keiser | 1674–1739 | 350th anniversary | ||||||
David Pohle | 1624–1695 | 400th anniversary | ||||||
Giacomo Puccini | 1858–1924 | 100th anniversary of death | ||||||
Arnold Schönberg | 1874–1951 | 150th anniversary | ||||||
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852–1924 | 100th anniversary of death | ||||||
Richard Strauss | 1864–1949 | 75th anniversary of death | ||||||
Heinz Martin Lonquich | 1937–2014 | 10th anniversary of death | ||||||
Knut Nystedt | 1915–2014 | 10th anniversary of death | ||||||
Anniversaries 2025 | ||||||||
Giovanni Palestrina | 1525–1594 | 500th anniversary | ||||||
Andreas Hammerschmidt | 1611–1675 | 350 anniversary of death | ||||||
Johann Philipp Krieger | 1649–1725 | 300th anniversary of death | ||||||
Arnold Melchior Brunckhorst | 1670–1725 | 300th anniversary of death | ||||||
Alessandro Scarlatti | 1660–1725 | 300th anniversary of death | ||||||
Antonio Salieri | 1750–1825 | 200th anniversary of death | ||||||
Georges Bizet | 1838–1875 | 150th anniversary of death | ||||||
Dimitri Stepanowitsch Bortniansky | 1751–1825 | 200th anniversary of death | ||||||
Eduard Mörike | 1804–1875 | 150th anniversary of death | ||||||
John Rutter | born 1945 | 80th anniversary | ||||||
Bob Chilcott | born 1955 | 70th anniversary | ||||||
Maurice Ravel | 1875–1937 | 150th anniversary | ||||||
Anniversaries 2026 | ||||||||
Carl Maria von Weber | 1786–1826 | 20th anniversary of death | ||||||
Zsolt Gárdonyi | born 1946 | 80th anniversary | ||||||
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1723/24: J. S. Bach
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2024: Anton Bruckner