March 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.
March 2018 : essential commemorations
2018 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In March 2018, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Emil Sjögren (100th anniversary, Death), Giulio Briccialdi (200th anniversary, Birth), Václav Kliment (100th anniversary, Death), Leokadiya Maslennikova (100th anniversary, Birth), Leonore Robinson (100th 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. April 2018? ... In a year? March 2019...
Day by day, all celebrations for March 2018
Girolamo Frescobaldi , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian composer (1583–1643)
375th anniversary (Death)
Emil Sjögren , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Swedish composer
100th anniversary (Death)
Julius Günther , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Swedish singer (1818-1904)
200th anniversary (Birth)
Giulio Briccialdi , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian musician
200th anniversary (Birth)
Nicola Porpora , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian composer
250th anniversary (Death)
Giuseppe di Di Stefano , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian opera singer
10th anniversary (Death)
Henryk Szeryng , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Polish-Mexican violinist
30th anniversary (Death)
Olha Pasichnyk , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Ukrainian singer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Antonio Vivaldi , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)
340th anniversary (Birth)
Opera
“Moses in Egypt” , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music
Premiere in 1818 (200th anniversary)
Naples
Opera
“Moses in Egypt” , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music
Premiere in 1818 (200th anniversary)
Naples
Thomas Arne , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, British composer
240th anniversary (Death)
Iša Krejčí , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Czech musician
50th anniversary (Death)
Václav Kliment , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Czech opera singer
100th anniversary (Death)
José María Sánchez-Verdú , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Spanish composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Leokadiya Maslennikova , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Soviet opera singer and music educator (1918-1995)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Antonio Bazzini , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian violinist, composer and teacher
200th anniversary (Birth)
Work for chamber orchestra
“Fanfare for the Common Man” , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music
Premiere in 1943 (75th anniversary)
Hans Knappertsbusch , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, German musician (1888-1965)
130th anniversary (Birth)
César Cui , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Russian composer and army officer
100th anniversary (Death)
Karel Stecker , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, musicologist, composer, organist, music teacher, teacher, music theorist
100th anniversary (Death)
Lili Boulanger , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, French composer (1893–1918)
100th anniversary (Death)
Zara Dolukhanova , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Soviet Armenian mezzo-soprano singer (1918-2007)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian composer
50th anniversary (Death)
Christa Ludwig , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, German mezzo-soprano (1928-2021)
90th anniversary (Birth)
Francesco Gasparini , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian composer and teacher (1668-1727)
350th anniversary (Birth)
Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, russian opera singer (1868-1913)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, German composer (1918–1970)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Johann Nikolaus Forkel , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, German musician, musicologist and music theorist (1749-1818)
200th anniversary (Death)
John Cameron , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Australian baritone singer, born 1918
100th anniversary (Birth)
Broadus Erle , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, American musician
100th anniversary (Birth)
Andrew Lloyd Webber , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, British theatre composer (born 1948)
70th anniversary (Birth)
Hamish MacCunn , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Scottish romantic composer, conductor and teacher
150th anniversary (Birth)
Nicolas Isouard , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Maltese composer (1773–1818)
200th anniversary (Death)
Franz Schreker , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Austrian composer
140th anniversary (Birth)
Matilde Salvador i Segarra , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Spanish-Valencian composer and painter
100th anniversary (Birth)
Work for orchestra with soloist
“Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33” , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music
Premiere in 1878 (140th anniversary)
Maria Malibran , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Spanish opera singer (1808–1836)
210th anniversary (Birth)
Théo Ysaÿe , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Belgian composer, pianist
100th anniversary (Death)
Leonore Robinson , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, opera singer (1845-1918)
100th anniversary (Death)
Claude Debussy , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, French classical composer (1862–1918)
100th anniversary (Death)
Turlough O'Carolan , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Irish harpist and composer
280th anniversary (Death)
Erminia Frezzolini , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, singer (1818-1884)
200th anniversary (Birth)
Boris Mokrousov , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Soviet composer (1909-1968)
50th anniversary (Death)
Maria Titarenko , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Azerbaijani Soviet opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Anselmo Colzani , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian opera singer (1918-2006)
100th anniversary (Birth)
W. C. Handy , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, American blues composer and musician (1873–1958)
60th anniversary (Death)
Sergei Rachmaninoff , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
75th anniversary (Death)
Antonio Capuzzi , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Italian violinist and composer
200th anniversary (Death)
Henry Schradieck , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, German musician (1846-1918)
100th anniversary (Death)
Wojciech Gawroński , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, pianist, composer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Charles-Valentin Alkan , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, French-Jewish composer and pianist
130th anniversary (Death)
Scott Joplin , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, American composer, musician, and pianist
150th anniversary (Birth)
Clemens Krauss , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Austrian conductor and opera impresario (1893 - 1954)
125th anniversary (Birth)
Heinrich Neuhaus , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Soviet pianist (1888–1964)
130th anniversary (Birth)
Richard Mandl , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, Austrian composer
100th anniversary (Death)
Elly Ney , Celebrations (March 2018), Classical music, German pianist
50th anniversary (Death)