February 2022: 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.
February 2022 : essential commemorations
2022 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In February 2022, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Renata Tebaldi (100th anniversary, Birth), Jean-Baptiste Davaux (200th anniversary, Death), Georg Fritz Weiß (200th anniversary, Birth), Joaquín Gaztambide (200th anniversary, Birth), Thorvald Lammers (100th anniversary, Death)... and many more.
What's next? Every month, dozens of anniversaries are good reasons to discover a work, to rediscover a musician. March 2022? ... In a year? February 2023...
Tebaldi
Day by day, all celebrations for February 2022
Clara Butt, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, British singer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Renata Tebaldi, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Huguette Rivière, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Zoë Keating, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Canadian avant-garde cellist and composer based in San Francisco
50th anniversary (Birth)
Jean-Baptiste Davaux, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French composer
200th anniversary (Death)
André David, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Jacques Ibert, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French composer
60th anniversary (Death)
Georg Fritz Weiß, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German singer and opera singer
200th anniversary (Birth)
Mina Kubota, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Japanese composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Jeanine Rueff, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Johannes Ockeghem, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Franco-Flemish composer
525th anniversary (Death)
Opera
“Hercule amoureux”, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music
Premiere in 1662 (360th anniversary)
Akiko Suwanai, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Japanese violinist
50th anniversary (Birth)
Joaquín Gaztambide, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, composer of zarzuelas from Navarre, Spain
200th anniversary (Birth)
John Williams, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, American composer, conductor, pianist and trombonist (born 1932)
90th anniversary (Birth)
Thorvald Lammers, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Operatic and concert singer
100th anniversary (Death)
Kathryn Grayson, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, actress from the United States
100th anniversary (Birth)
Antonio Bazzini, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian violinist, composer and teacher
125th anniversary (Death)
Elisabeth Carron, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, American operatic soprano
100th anniversary (Birth)
Francesco Cavalli, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian Baroque composer
420th anniversary (Birth)
John Coolidge Adams, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, American composer
75th anniversary (Birth)
Geraint Evans, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Welsh opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Theodor Tomášek, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Czech conductor, violinist, composer and choirmaster
100th anniversary (Death)
Gregorio Allegri, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian composer
370th anniversary (Death)
Bruno Walter, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German-born conductor, pianist, and composer
60th anniversary (Death)
Gavriil Popov, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Russian composer
50th anniversary (Death)
Fernand Halphen, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French Jewish composer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Jerónimo Francisco de Lima, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, composer
200th anniversary (Death)
Josef Matěj, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Czech composer, trombonist and choirmaster
100th anniversary (Birth)
Charles Auguste de Bériot, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Belgian composer and violinist
220th anniversary (Birth)
Miroslav Pelikán, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Czech music educator and composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Wojciech Żywny, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Polish pianist, composer of Czech origin; Frédéric Chopin's piano teacher
180th anniversary (Death)
John McCollum, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, American opera tenor
100th anniversary (Birth)
Rolando Valdès-Blain, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Cuban classical guitarist
100th anniversary (Birth)
Rolando Villazón, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Mexican tenor
50th anniversary (Birth)
Johann Ignaz Walter, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German singer and composer
200th anniversary (Death)
Pierre Certon, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French composer
450th anniversary (Death)
Johann Crüger, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German hymnwriter
360th anniversary (Death)
Georg Anthes, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German violinist, director, singer and opera singer
100th anniversary (Death)
Ilse Hollweg, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German singer and opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Arrigo Boito, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian opera composer and librettist of Verdi's opera ''Otello'' (1842-1918)
180th anniversary (Birth)
Michel Legrand, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, French film score composer (1932-2019)
90th anniversary (Birth)
Arcadi Volodos, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Russian pianist
50th anniversary (Birth)
Theodoros Currentzis, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Greek musician, conductor
50th anniversary (Birth)
Felix Werder, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Australian composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Karl Fredrik Hanson, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Swedish composer
100th anniversary (Death)
Sergio Tiempo, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Venezuelan-Argentine musician
50th anniversary (Birth)
Kazuko Yasukawa, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Japanese pianist
100th anniversary (Birth)
Alessandro Stradella, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian composer
340th anniversary (Death)
Franz Beyer, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, musicologist, viola player
100th anniversary (Birth)
Franz Strauss, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, German composer and virtuoso horn player. Father of Richard Strauss
200th anniversary (Birth)
Nadezhda Simonyan, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Soviet composer (1922-1997)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Marian Anderson, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, African-American contralto
125th anniversary (Birth)
Gidon Kremer, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Latvian violinist and conductor
75th anniversary (Birth)
Opera
“La reine de Saba”, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music
Premiere in 1862 (160th anniversary)
Salle Le Peletier
Geraldine Farrar, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, American soprano opera singer and film actress (1882-1967)
140th anniversary (Birth)
Gioachino Rossini, Celebrations (February 2022), Classical music, Italian opera composer
230th anniversary (Birth)