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Composer Birthdays & Anniversaries

Jan. 12, 2011

As programming for next season begins to take shape, we’d like to take this opportunity to offer a handy list of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries of composers in the Schott/EAM family.

2011 Birthdays
Thomas Adès-40
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett-75
Francis Burt-85
Friedrich Cerha-85
Henri Dutilleux-95
Barbara Heller-75
Hans Werner Henze-85
Wilfried Hiller-70
Lee Hoiby-85
Karel Husa-90
György Kurtág-85
John Lord-70
Steve Reich-75
Aribert Reimann-75
David Sawer-50
Daniel Schnyder-50
Howard Shore-65
Maurico Sotelo-50
Peteris Vasks-65

2011 Anniversaries
Cornelius Cardew-75th Anniversary of Birth
Paul Burkhard-100th Anniversary of Birth
Alexander Glazunov-75th Anniversary of Death
Percy Aldridge Grainger-50th Anniversary of Death
Franz Liszt-200th Anniversary of Birth
Gustav Mahler-100th Anniversary of Death
Mauricio Kagel-80th Anniversary of Birth
Ottorino Respighi-75th Anniversary of Death
Nino Rota-100th Anniversary of Birth
Othmar Schoeck-125 Anniversary of Birth
Toru Takemitsu-15th Anniversary of Death
Alexandre Tansman-25th Anniversary of Death

2012 Birthdays
Gerald Barry-60
David Bedford-75
Alexander Goehr-80
Wilhelm Killmayer-85
Volker David Kirchner-70
Oliver Knussen-60
Wolfgang Rihm-60
Valentin Silvestrov-75
Rodion Shchedrin-80

2012 Anniversaries

Kurt Atterberg-125th Anniversary of Birth
Alexander Borodin-125th Anniversary of Death
Hanns Eisler-50th Anniversary of Death
Morton Feldman-25th Anniversary of Death
Jean Françaix-100th Anniversary of Birth
Wolfgang Fortner-25th Anniversary of Death
Hans Gál-25th Anniversary of Death
George Gershwin-75th Anniversary of Death
Fritz Kreisler-50th Anniversary of Death
Richard Meale-80th Anniversary of Birth
Conlon Nancarrow-100th Anniversary of Birth
Caspar Neher-50th Anniversary of Death
Carl Orff-30th Anniversary of Death
Ernst Toch-125th Anniversary of Birth
Alexander Zemlinsky-70th Anniversary of Death

Anniversaries in the Baerenreiter Critical Edition

2011
Johannes Eccard-400th Anniversary of Death
Andreas Hammerschmidt-400th Anniversary of Birth
Franz Liszt-200th Anniversary of Birth
Gustav Mahler-100th Anniversary of Death

2012
Claude Debussy-150th Anniversary of Birth
Hans Leo Hassler-450th Anniversary of Birth
Hermann Stern-100th Anniversary of Birth

Learn more on all of the composers by visiting www.schott-music.com, www.universaledition.com, www.fabermusic.com and www.baerenreiter.com.

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