November 2020: classical music celebrations and anniversaries

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.

November 2020 : essential commemorations

2020 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In November 2020, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Vieri Tosatti (100th anniversary, Birth), Paul Lebrun (100th anniversary, Death), Maria Waldmann (100th anniversary, Death), Michael Langdon (100th anniversary, Birth), Lodovico Graziani (200th anniversary, Birth).

There are many more: 1920, 1820, 1720...

What's next? Every month, dozens of anniversaries are good reasons to discover a work, to rediscover a musician. December 2020? ... In a year? November 2021...

Day by day, all celebrations for November 2020

November 2020

02

Opera

“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Premiere in 1900 (120th anniversary)

Work for orchestra

“The Tale of Tsar Saltan : Three Musical Pictures”, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Premiere in 1900 (120th anniversary)

Dimitri Mitropoulos, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer

60th anniversary (Death)

Vieri Tosatti, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Italian composer

100th anniversary (Birth)

Franz Vincenz Tuček, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Czech conductor, composer and organist

200th anniversary (Death)

03

Work for orchestra

“Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70”, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music

Francis Poulenc

Premiere in 1945 (75th anniversary)

Peter Herresthal, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Norwegian musician

50th anniversary (Birth)

04

Malena Ernman, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Swedish opera singer

50th anniversary (Birth)

Paul Lebrun, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Belgian composer

100th anniversary (Death)

Paul Knüpfer, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, German opera singer

100th anniversary (Death)

05

Walter Gieseking, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, German pianist

125th anniversary (Birth)

Ibrahim Maalouf, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, French-Lebanese trumpeter

40th anniversary (Birth)

06

Jiří Antonín Benda, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Czech composer

225th anniversary (Death)

Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Italian opera singer

100th anniversary (Birth)

Maria Waldmann, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, singer

100th anniversary (Death)

Agustín Lara, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Mexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros

50th anniversary (Death)

07

Work for orchestra

“Roses from the South, Op. 388”, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music

Johann Strauss II

Premiere in 1880 (140th anniversary)

Great Hall of the Musikverein

Ferenc Erkel, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Hungarian composer

210th anniversary (Birth)

08

César Franck, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher

130th anniversary (Death)

10

Opera

“Salammbô”, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Premiere in 1980 (40th anniversary)

11

Jerome Kern, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)

75th anniversary (Death)

Johann Theobald Held, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Czech composer and doctor

250th anniversary (Birth)

12

Henryk Gorecki, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Polish composer (1933–2010)

10th anniversary (Death)

Michael Langdon, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, British bass opera singer

100th anniversary (Birth)

Oscar Strasnoy, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Argentine composer

50th anniversary (Birth)

14

Aaron Copland, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor

120th anniversary (Birth)

Masterpieces Complete works

Lodovico Graziani, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Italian opera singer

200th anniversary (Birth)

16

Paul Hindemith, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, German-born American composer (1895–1963)

125th anniversary (Birth)

Luigi Morleo, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Italian composer

50th anniversary (Birth)

17

Gian Francesco de Majo, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Italian composer

250th anniversary (Death)

18

Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Celebrations (November 2020), Classical music, Polish pianist, composer, supporter of Poland's independence movements, politician, Prime Minister of reborn Poland (1860-1941)