August 2018: the main classical music anniversaries to celebrate
Every month, composers and musicians to remember! Classical music and opera have brought out tens of thousands of artists, are performed in thousands of venues and their composers have written scores in great numbers throughout 10 centuries of history. From January 1 to December 31, there are therefore many opportunities to remember a composer or discover an artist, to explore a genre or to expand a work' s knowledge.
August 2018 : essential commemorations
2018 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In August 2018, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Lorne Betts (100th anniversary, Birth), Otte Svendsen (100th anniversary, Birth), Michael Minsky (100th anniversary, Birth), Heinrich Köselitz (100th anniversary, Death), Loyset Compère (500th anniversary, Death).
There are many more: 1918, 1818, 1718...
What's next? Every month, dozens of anniversaries are good reasons to discover a work, to rediscover a musician. September 2018? ... In a year? August 2019...
Day by day, all celebrations for August 2018
Peter Verhoyen , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Flemish flute and piccolo player
50th anniversary (Birth)
Carlos Chávez , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Mexican composer (1899-1978)
40th anniversary (Death)
Lorne Betts , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Canadian composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Martin Krause , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, German musician (1853-1918)
100th anniversary (Death)
Alfred Schnittke , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, German Soviet composer
20th anniversary (Death)
Olga Neuwirth , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Austrian composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Eugen Suchoň , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Slovak composer (1908–1993)
25th anniversary (Death)
Oskar Merikanto , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Finnish musician and composer (1868–1924)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Granville Bantock , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, British composer and conductor (1868-1946)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Alfredo Catalani , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian operatic composer (1854-1893)
125th anniversary (Death)
Mauro Maur , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian musician
60th anniversary (Birth)
Fritz Stiedry , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Austrian conductor
50th anniversary (Death)
Otte Svendsen , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Danish opera singer and autobiographer (1918-2008)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Salvatore Licitra , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian operatic tenor
50th anniversary (Birth)
Johann Michael Vogl , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Austrian singer
250th anniversary (Birth)
Leoš Janáček , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Czech composer (1854–1928)
90th anniversary (Death)
Michael Minsky , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Russian and Ukrainian singer (1918-1988)
100th anniversary (Birth)
José Mardones , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Spanish bass singer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Leone Sinigaglia , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian composer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Emma Calvé , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, French operatic soprano (1858-1942)
160th anniversary (Birth)
Marin Marais , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, French composer and viol player
290th anniversary (Death)
Heinrich Köselitz , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, German composer (1854-1918)
100th anniversary (Death)
Raymond Gallois-Montbrun , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, French composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Loyset Compère , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer
500th anniversary (Death)
Andrea Ferrante , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Charles Sanford Skilton , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, American composer, teacher and musicologist (1868-1941)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Lorenzo da Da Ponte , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)
180th anniversary (Death)
Florent Schmitt , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, French composer (1870-1958)
60th anniversary (Death)
Carl Zeller , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Austrian composer
120th anniversary (Death)
Desider Arányi , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Hungarian singer and opera singer (1868-1923)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Christina Nilsson , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Swedish operatic soprano (1843-1921)
175th anniversary (Birth)
Lili Boulanger , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, French composer (1893–1918)
125th anniversary (Birth)
Miriam Pirazzini , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Operatic mezzo-soprano
100th anniversary (Birth)
Karlheinz Stockhausen , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, German composer
90th anniversary (Birth)
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, German prince (1818-1893)
125th anniversary (Death)
Laura Claycomb , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, American soprano
50th anniversary (Birth)
Hans Krotthammer , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Austrian opera singer (1918-1977)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Sérgio Azevedo , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Portuguese composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Leonard Bernstein , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Elizabeth Billington , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, British opera singer (1765-1818)
200th anniversary (Death)
Remo Giazotto , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian musicologist, composer and biographer
20th anniversary (Death)
Ralph Vaughan Williams , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, English composer (1872–1958)
60th anniversary (Death)
Erik Schmedes , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Danish opera singer (1868-1931)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Maria Curcio , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, pianist
100th anniversary (Birth)
Vera Firsova , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Russian opera singer (1918-1993)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Armida Parsi-Pettinella , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music, Italian mezzo-soprano died 1949
150th anniversary (Birth)
Work for orchestra
“Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228” , Celebrations (August 2018), Classical music
Premiere in 1848 (170th anniversary)