January 2025: 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.
January 2025 : essential commemorations
2025 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In January 2025, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Veniamin Basner (100th anniversary, Birth), Irina Arkhipova (100th anniversary, Birth), Caroline Girard (100th anniversary, Death), Ferdinand Löwe (100th anniversary, Death), Carmen Barros (100th anniversary, Birth).
There are many more: 1925, 1825, 1725...
What's next? Every month, dozens of anniversaries are good reasons to discover a work, to rediscover a musician. February 2025? ... In a year? January 2026...
Day by day, all celebrations for January 2025
Veniamin Basner , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Soviet and Russian composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Irina Arkhipova , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Russian opera singer (1925-2010)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Karl Goldmark , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Hungarian-born Viennese composer (1830–1915)
110th anniversary (Death)
Michael Tippett , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, English composer (1905-1996)
120th anniversary (Birth)
Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Spanish composer (1875-1918)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Nguyen Van Quy , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, composer and musician from Vietnam
100th anniversary (Birth)
Andrzej Nikodemowicz , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Polish composer, pianist and music educator
100th anniversary (Birth)
Baldassare Galuppi , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Italian composer (1706-1785)
240th anniversary (Death)
Borys Liatoshynsky , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher
130th anniversary (Birth)
Lovro von Matačić , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Croatian conductor and composer
40th anniversary (Death)
Theodore Thomas , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American violinist and conductor (1835-1905)
120th anniversary (Death)
Domenico Monleone , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Italian composer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Caroline Girard , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French singer
100th anniversary (Death)
Work for choir
“Hercules” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1745 (280th anniversary)
Ferdinand Löwe , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Austrian musician (1865-1925)
100th anniversary (Death)
Vincent Niclo , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French tenor singer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Gabriel Prokofiev , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, English composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Clara Haskil , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Romanian-Swiss classical pianist (1895-1960)
130th anniversary (Birth)
Friedrich Plaschke , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Czech singer
150th anniversary (Birth)
Carmen Barros , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Chilean singer and actor
100th anniversary (Birth)
Opera
“Ariodante” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1735 (290th anniversary)
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Opera
“Almira” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1705 (320th anniversary)
Oper am Gänsemarkt
Norman Foster , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American actor
100th anniversary (Birth)
Richard Tucker , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American opera singer (1913-1975)
50th anniversary (Death)
Sara Cahier , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American-born Swedish actor, opera singer and music educator
150th anniversary (Birth)
Work for orchestra
“Symphony for organ and orchestra” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1925 (100th anniversary)
New York City
Max Lorenz , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German operatic tenor
50th anniversary (Death)
Sébastien Surel , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French violinist
50th anniversary (Birth)
Elena Obraztsova , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Soviet and Russian opera singer
10th anniversary (Death)
Opera
“La finta giardiniera” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1775 (250th anniversary)
National Theatre Munich
Tuva Semmingsen , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Norwegian opera singer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Odd Wolstad , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, singer, actor, opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Work for choir
“Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (I)” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1725 (300th anniversary)
Opera
“Tosca” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1900 (125th anniversary)
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Austrian musicologist (1800-1877)
225th anniversary (Birth)
Louis Quilico , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Canadian opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Jeanette MacDonald , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American singer and actress (1903-1965)
60th anniversary (Death)
Evie Greene , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, British actor and singer (1875-1917)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Grace Hoffman , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Koh Gabriel Kameda , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German musician
50th anniversary (Birth)
Louise Bertin , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French composer (1805-1877)
220th anniversary (Birth)
Victoria de los Ángeles , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Catalan/Spanish opera singer
20th anniversary (Death)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Italian composer
250th anniversary (Death)
Maria Forescu , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German actress and singer (1875-1943)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Vocal music
“Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1800 (225th anniversary)
Théâtre Feydeau
Charles Rousselière , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French opera singer (1875-1950)
150th anniversary (Birth)
Léon Carvalho , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French opera singer, impresario and stage director
200th anniversary (Birth)
César Cui , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Russian composer and army officer
190th anniversary (Birth)
Azat Ğabbasof , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Tatar opera singer (1925-2006)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Kiril Makedonski , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Macedonian composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Simon Rattle , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, British conductor
70th anniversary (Birth)
Valentin Berlinsky , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Russian musician (1925-2008)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Ernest Chausson , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French composer (1855–1899)
170th anniversary (Birth)
Anne-Catherine Gillet , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Belgian singer and opera singer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Haxhi Tafaj , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Manuel del García , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Spanish opera singer, composer and impresario
250th anniversary (Birth)
Jiří Ignác Linek , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Czech composer and educator
300th anniversary (Birth)
Work for orchestra
“Danse macabre, Op. 40” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1875 (150th anniversary)
Farinelli , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Italian opera singer
320th anniversary (Birth)
Isobel Cooper , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, English Operatic pop soprano singer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Leopold Jansa , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Czech violinist, music educator and composer
150th anniversary (Death)
José María Valle Riestra , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Peruviaan composera (1858-1925)
100th anniversary (Death)
Work for orchestra
“Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1905 (120th anniversary)
Musikverein
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German musician and composer
230th anniversary (Death)
Daniel Chabrun , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, French conductor
100th anniversary (Birth)
Jacqueline du Pré , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, British cellist
80th anniversary (Birth)
Toti Dal dal Monte , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Italian singer and actress
50th anniversary (Death)
Helmut Koch , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German musician and conductor (1908-1975)
50th anniversary (Death)
Friedrich Gulda , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Austrian pianist and composer (1930-2000)
25th anniversary (Death)
Jerome Kern , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)
140th anniversary (Birth)
Eduard Künneke , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German composer (b. 1885)
140th anniversary (Birth)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Russian and Soviet composer, conductor , musicologist and music teacher
90th anniversary (Death)
Julián Carrillo , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Mexican musician
150th anniversary (Birth)
Song, lied
“Rückert Lieder” , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music
Premiere in 1905 (120th anniversary)
Orestis Makris , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Greek actor
50th anniversary (Death)
Miloslav Kořínek , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, Czech composer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Thomas Tallis , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, English composer
520th anniversary (Birth)
Boris Blacher , Celebrations (January 2025), Classical music, German composer
50th anniversary (Death)