August 2019: 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 2019 : essential commemorations
2019 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In August 2019, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Oscar Hammerstein I (100th anniversary, Death), Barbara Strozzi (400th anniversary, Birth), Kim Borg (100th anniversary, Birth), Ruggero Leoncavallo (100th anniversary, Death), Ginette Neveu (100th anniversary, Birth)... and many more.
What's next? Every month, dozens of anniversaries are good reasons to discover a work, to rediscover a musician. Next month? September 2019... In a year? August 2020...
Strozzi
Leoncavallo
Neveu
Day by day, all celebrations for August 2019
Oscar Hammerstein I, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German-born businessman, theater and opera impresario, and composer in New York City
100th anniversary (Death)
Boris Gmyrya, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Ukrainian singer
50th anniversary (Death)
Hagigat Rzayeva, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Azerbaijani singer and actor
50th anniversary (Death)
Leonardo Leo, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Italian composer
325th anniversary (Birth)
Theodor W. Adorno, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
50th anniversary (Death)
Barbara Strozzi, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Italian baroque singer and composer
400th anniversary (Birth)
Kim Borg, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Finnish musician and composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Alexei Sultanov, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Uzbekistani musician
50th anniversary (Birth)
Carl Heinrich Graun, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German composer and tenor singer
260th anniversary (Death)
Maria Guleghina, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Ukrainian singer
60th anniversary (Birth)
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Italian composer
100th anniversary (Death)
Edmund Hockridge, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Canadian actor and singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Ginette Neveu, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, French musician
100th anniversary (Birth)
Jan Buchwald, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German singer and opera singer
Death
Jiang Ying, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Chinese singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Heinrich Biber, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist
375th anniversary (Birth)
John Ireland, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, British composer and teacher of music (1879-1962)
140th anniversary (Birth)
Armas Järnefelt, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Finnish composer and conductor
150th anniversary (Birth)
Ivo Malec, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Croatian French composer
Death
Victor Merzhanov, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Russian musician
100th anniversary (Birth)
Wanda Landowska, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Polish-French classical harpsichordist
60th anniversary (Death)
Lourdes Vallier, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Brazilian organist
100th anniversary (Birth)
Rosemary Kuhlmann, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, singer and actress (1922-2019)
Death
Oldřich Spisar, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Anna Deinet, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, singer
100th anniversary (Death)
Luca Marenzio, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Italian composer
420th anniversary (Death)
Mario Davidovsky, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Argentine-American composer
Death
Jolanda Gardino, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Italian singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Yuri Arutyunyan, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Armenian composer
Death
Lutz-Michael Harder, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German lyric tenor
Death
Johann Rosenmüller, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German Baroque composer
400th anniversary (Birth)
Niels Viggo Bentzon, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Danish composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Jonathan Goldstein, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, British composer and conductor
Death
Richard Conrad, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, American singer
Death
Pēteris Grāvelis, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Latvian opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Karl Böhm, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Austrian conductor
125th anniversary (Birth)
Bohuslav Martinů, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Czech composer
60th anniversary (Death)
Jiří Šust, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Czech composer, author of film music
100th anniversary (Birth)
Rudy Hirigoyen, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, French singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Miklós Kocsár, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Hungarian composer
Death
Bonifacio Asioli, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Italian composer
250th anniversary (Birth)
Jadwiga Pietraszkiewicz, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Polish opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Alma Mahler, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, Austrian American composer, author, editor and socialite (1879-1964)
140th anniversary (Birth)
Ottmar Gerster, Celebrations (August 2019), Classical music, German composer and conductor
50th anniversary (Death)