2000, from day to day
2000. With other artists, Mikis Theodorakis, Pierre Boulez and Giya Kancheli influenced their time (modern & contemporary era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, while others would disappear such as Władysław Szpilman. That year, new works would be composed, published or performed for the first time in public, such as “In the Penal Colony” de Philip Glass, for example. That year, halls or orchestras would be founded or ceased to operate.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 2000 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 180 of these moments for 2000.
The year 2000 in classical music and in lyrical art
January
02
Inauguration: Thessaloniki Concert Hall That year: 2000, Classical music (Thessaloniki Municipality, Greece)
08
Death of Rakhilia Miftakhova That year: 2000, Classical music, Russian singer (1940-2000) (born in 1940)
Birth of Ambrose Osadugba That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
12
Death of Yevgeny Glebov That year: 2000, Classical music, Soviet conductor and composer (1929-2000) (born in 1929)
16
Death of Georges Vaillant That year: 2000, Classical music, French singer (born in 1912)
17
Death of Philip Jones That year: 2000, Classical music, British musician (born in 1928)
19
Death of Irra Petina That year: 2000, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1908)
21
Death of Suleĭman Aleskerov That year: 2000, Classical music, Soviet conductor and composer (1924-2000) (born in 1924)
22
Death of Carlo Cossutta That year: 2000, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1932)
25
Death of Simeon Pironkov That year: 2000, Classical music, Bulgarian composer (born in 1927)
27
Death of Friedrich Gulda That year: 2000, Classical music, Austrian pianist and composer (1930-2000) (born in 1930)
29
Death of Beate Asserson That year: 2000, Classical music, Norwegian mezzo-soprano (born in 1913)
Also in January
Inception: New Zealand Opera That year: 2000, Classical music (New Zealand) .
February
02
Death of Ján Hadraba That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1922)
05
Death of Pablo Elvira That year: 2000, Classical music, Puerto Rican opera singer (born in 1937)
13
Death of Rudolf Asmus That year: 2000, Classical music, German actor and opera singer (born in 1921)
Birth of Paul Daniel Ersfeld Mandujano That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
26
Death of Andrzej Hiolski That year: 2000, Classical music, Polish singer (born in 1922)
March
02
Birth of Becky Horner That year: 2000, Classical music, American composer
04
Death of Rózsi Delly That year: 2000, Classical music, (1912-2000) opera singer (born in 1912)
05
Death of Alexander Young That year: 2000, Classical music, English tenor (1920-2000) (born in 1920)
06
Death of Maurizio Frusoni That year: 2000, Classical music, Italian opera singer (1941-2000) (born in 1941)
08
Death of Ursula Brömme That year: 2000, Classical music, German soprano (1931-2000) (born in 1931)
Death of Käthe Brinkmann That year: 2000, Classical music, German opera singer (1908-2000) (born in 1908)
16
Death of Norman Foster That year: 2000, Classical music, American actor (born in 1925)
Death of Roy Henderson That year: 2000, Classical music, British opera singer (born in 1899)
19
Death of Li Huanzhi That year: 2000, Classical music, Hong Kong musician (born in 1919)
20
Death of Ādolfs Skulte That year: 2000, Classical music, composer (born in 1909)
Death of Vivian Fine That year: 2000, Classical music, American composer (1913-2000) (born in 1913)
24
Death of Yury Malinin That year: 2000, Classical music, singer, opera singer (born in 1939)
29
Death of Klió Kemény That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1929)
April
09
Birth of Jackie Evancho That year: 2000, Classical music, American singer
12
Death of Mykola Ohrenych That year: 2000, Classical music, Ukrainian opera singer (1937-2000) (born in 1937)
13
Death of Inglis Gundry That year: 2000, Classical music, British writer and musician (born in 1905)
25
Death of Niels Viggo Bentzon That year: 2000, Classical music, Danish composer (born in 1919)
Death of Ruth Asmus That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer, concert singer (born in 1934)
28
Death of Kim Borg That year: 2000, Classical music, Finnish musician and composer (1919-2000) (born in 1919)
May
01
Death of Vlasta Andrýsková-Tondlová That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1902)
03
Death of Oto Ferenczy That year: 2000, Classical music, Slovak composer (born in 1921)
05
Death of Vitaliy Hubarenko That year: 2000, Classical music, Ukrainian composer (born in 1934)
06
Death of Leonard Salzedo That year: 2000, Classical music, British musician (born in 1921)
11
Birth of Joseph Fiddes That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
13
Death of Olivier Greif That year: 2000, Classical music, French composer (born in 1950)
Death of Cesare Valletti That year: 2000, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1922)
17
Death of Ellis Kohs That year: 2000, Classical music, American composer & scholar (born in 1916)
18
Birth of Justin Robert Zeitlinger That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
20
Death of Jean-Pierre Rampal That year: 2000, Classical music, French flutist (born in 1922)
27
Death of Johanna Peters That year: 2000, Classical music, Scottish mezzo-soprano (1932-2000) (born in 1932)
June
01
Death of Oskar Czerwenka That year: 2000, Classical music, Austrian singer and opera singer (born in 1924)
Death of Karl-Walter Böhm That year: 2000, Classical music, German opera singe (born in 1938)
02
Death of Lepo Sumera That year: 2000, Classical music, Estonian composer (born in 1950)
03
Death of Joseph R. Wood That year: 2000, Classical music, American composer (1915-2000) (born in 1915)
10
Death of Frank Patterson That year: 2000, Classical music, Irish tenor (born in 1938)
16
Death of Fritz Hübner That year: 2000, Classical music, German opera singer (1933-2000) (born in 1933)
21
Death of Alan Hovhaness That year: 2000, Classical music, Armenian-American composer (1911-2000) (born in 1911)
Death of Maurice Vaute That year: 2000, Classical music, Belgian composer (born in 1913)
July
01
Death of Pierre Petit That year: 2000, Classical music, French composer (1922-2000) (born in 1922)
03
Death of Walter Cassel That year: 2000, Classical music, American opera singer (1910-2000) (born in 1910)
05
Death of Jiří Kosina That year: 2000, Classical music, Czech composer and choirmaster (born in 1926)
06
Death of Władysław Szpilman That year: 2000, Classical music, Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor (born in 1911)
Death of Ľudovít Rajter That year: 2000, Classical music, Slovak conductor and composer (born in 1906)
09
Death of Halina Słonicka That year: 2000, Classical music, Polish opera singer (1931-2000) (born in 1931)
10
Death of Feliks Rudomski That year: 2000, Classical music, Polish singer (1912-2000) (born in 1912)
15
Death of Louis Quilico That year: 2000, Classical music, Canadian opera singer (born in 1925)
18
Death of Lajos Jakab That year: 2000, Classical music, Romanian opera singer (born in 1929)
19
Death of Ervin Kärvet That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer, music teacher (born in 1932)
21
Death of Iain Hamilton That year: 2000, Classical music, Scottish composer (1922-2000) (born in 1922)
24
Death of Oscar Shumsky That year: 2000, Classical music, American violinist and violist (born in 1917)
Death of Walter Fredericks That year: 2000, Classical music, American opera singer (1916-2000) (born in 1916)
August
05
Death of Otto Wiener That year: 2000, Classical music, Austrian baritone (1911-2000) (born in 1911)
Death of Emin Khachaturian That year: 2000, Classical music (born in 1930)
06
Death of Joan Trimble That year: 2000, Classical music, Irish composer (born in 1915)
Death of Arthur Newman That year: 2000, Classical music, American operatic baritone and actor (1908-2000) (born in 1908)
07
Death of Růžena Kustrová-Pichlerová That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1910)
08
Birth of Jason Baruk That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
10
Death of Suzanne Danco That year: 2000, Classical music, Belgian singer (born in 1911)
15
Death of Jean Papineau-Couture That year: 2000, Classical music, composer and academic (born in 1916)
17
Death of Franco Donatoni That year: 2000, Classical music, Italian composer (born in 1927)
20
Death of Nancy Evans That year: 2000, Classical music, English mezzo-soprano (1915-2000) (born in 1915)
21
Death of Lillie Grandval That year: 2000, Classical music, French opera singer (born in 1904)
Death of Neil Wilson That year: 2000, Classical music, American tenor (1956-2000) (born in 1956)
September
06
Birth of Maximian George Soupelin That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
15
Death of David Shallon That year: 2000, Classical music, Israeli conductor (born in 1950)
17
Premiere of In the Penal Colony That year: 2000, Classical music (Opera), Philip Glass
25
Death of Jerzy Erdman That year: 2000, Classical music, organist (born in 1942)
27
Death of Nadya Afeyan That year: 2000, Classical music, Bulgarian opera singer (born in 1917)
28
Death of Irma Eszenyi That year: 2000, Classical music, (1921-2000) opera singer (born in 1921)
October
03
Death of Valeri Popova That year: 2000, Classical music, Bulgarian opera singer (1945-2000) (born in 1945)
04
Death of Tofig Guliyev That year: 2000, Classical music, Azerbaijani musician (born in 1917)
08
Death of Francesco Pennisi That year: 2000, Classical music, Italian composer (born in 1934)
10
Death of Ferenc Farkas That year: 2000, Classical music, Hungarian musician (1905-2000) (born in 1905)
12
Death of Olivér Nagy That year: 2000, Classical music, Hungarian composer and conductor (1912–2000) (born in 1912)
Death of Gino Lo Russo Toma That year: 2000, Classical music, Italian opera singer (1928-2000) (born in 1928)
22
Death of Saburō Takata That year: 2000, Classical music, composer (born in 1913)
Death of Iosefa Enari That year: 2000, Classical music, New Zealand singer (born in 1954)
24
Death of Rudy Hirigoyen That year: 2000, Classical music, French singer (born in 1919)
26
Death of Lucia Evangelista That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1917)
27
Death of Walter Berry That year: 2000, Classical music, Austrian opera singer (1929–2000) (born in 1929)
29
Death of Carlos Guastavino That year: 2000, Classical music, Argentine composer (born in 1912)
Death of Jacqueline Brumaire That year: 2000, Classical music, singer (born in 1921)
30
Death of Bernard Kruysen That year: 2000, Classical music, Dutch singer (1933-2000) (born in 1933)
November
02
Death of Louis-Jacques Rondeleux That year: 2000, Classical music, French singer (born in 1923)
06
Death of Herbert Brün That year: 2000, Classical music, German composer (born in 1918)
08
Death of Per-Olof Johnson That year: 2000, Classical music, Swedish guitarist (1928-2000) (born in 1928)
09
Death of Jaromír Podešva That year: 2000, Classical music, Czech music educator and composer (born in 1927)
25
Death of Nicolae Florei That year: 2000, Classical music, Romanian opera singer (born in 1927)
27
Death of Elena Cernei That year: 2000, Classical music, singer (born in 1924)
Death of Miloš Konvalinka That year: 2000, Classical music, Czech conductor and composer (1919-2000) (born in 1919)
30
Death of Jānis Kalniņš That year: 2000, Classical music, Latvian Canadian composer and conductor (born in 1904)
December
06
Death of Werner Klemperer That year: 2000, Classical music, German-American actor and musician (born in 1920)
12
Birth of Sean Franklin Brown That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
19
Death of Michel Dens That year: 2000, Classical music, French opera singer (born in 1911)
23
Death of Victor Borge That year: 2000, Classical music, Danish comedian and pianist (1909–2000) (born in 1909)
Death of Aage Haugland That year: 2000, Classical music, Danish opera singer (1944-2000) (born in 1944)
27
Death of Kazys Mikalauskas That year: 2000, Classical music, Lithuanian singer (born in 1908)
30
Birth of Tayla Alexander That year: 2000, Classical music, New Zealand singer
Birth of Olivier de Brunville That year: 2000, Classical music, composer
This was also in 2000
Inception: Trio Hochelaga That year: 2000, Classical music (Canada). Birth of Erin Gras That year: 2000, Classical music, composer . Inception: Asasello Quartett That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Opera Company of Brooklyn That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Birth of Maria Weiss That year: 2000, Classical music, Austrian opera singer . Inception: Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inauguration: Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española That year: 2000, Classical music (Almería, Spain). Closing: Bach-Tage Berlin That year: 2000, Classical music (Berlin, Germany). Death of Ashir Kuliev That year: 2000, Classical music, Soviet composer and music educator (1918-2000) (born in 1918) . Inception: dell'Arte Opera Ensemble That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Psallentes That year: 2000, Classical music. Death of Mario Borriello That year: 2000, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1914) . Inception: Edinburgh Youth Choir That year: 2000, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inception: Le Concert d'Astrée That year: 2000, Classical music (France). Inception: BOND That year: 2000, Classical music (Australia). Inauguration: Ostrava Days That year: 2000, Classical music (Ostrava, Czech Republic). Dissolution: Big Children's Choir That year: 2000, Classical music (Soviet Union). Inception: Soulful Symphony That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Closing: Filharmonia Łódzka That year: 2000, Classical music (Łódź, Poland). Death of Liane Croon That year: 2000, Classical music, German actress and opera singer (born in 1927) . Inauguration: Klassik an der Donau That year: 2000, Classical music (Vilshofen an der Donau, Germany). Death of Musa Silver That year: 2000, Classical music, Finnish opera singer (born in 1907) . Closing: Städtischer Saalbau Recklinghausen That year: 2000, Classical music (Recklinghausen, Germany). Inception: Mapua Cardinal Singers That year: 2000, Classical music. Death of Janet Coster That year: 2000, Classical music, English operatic mezzo-soprano (20th century) (born in 1901) . Inauguration: CasinoKoksijde That year: 2000, Classical music (Koksijde, Belgium). Inauguration: Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik That year: 2000, Classical music (Weimar, Germany). Inception: Adolf Fredrik's Youth Choir That year: 2000, Classical music. Birth of Anthony Anderson That year: 2000, Classical music, American opera singer born 1999 . Inception: Gardiner Street Gospel Choir That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Storm Weather Shanty Choir That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: China Philharmonic Orchestra That year: 2000, Classical music (People's Republic of China). Inception: Mozart Piano Quartet That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: San Francisco Academy Orchestra That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Cappella Augustana That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Sunderland Symphony Orchestra That year: 2000, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inauguration: LyricaFest That year: 2000, Classical music (Lincoln, United States of America). Inauguration: Young Euro Classic That year: 2000, Classical music (Berlin, Germany). Inception: Only Men Aloud! That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: PS22 Chorus That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: The Jono El Grande Orchestra That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Musica Nova That year: 2000, Classical music (France). Inception: Korea National Opera That year: 2000, Classical music (South Korea). Inception: Bachchor Stuttgart That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Ensemble Arianna That year: 2000, Classical music. Death of Lillie Claus That year: 2000, Classical music, (1905-2000) operette and opera singer (born in 1905) . Inauguration: Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival That year: 2000, Classical music (Bayreuth, Germany). Inception: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra That year: 2000, Classical music (South Africa). Inception: Chapter 6 That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Birth of Thomas Jesty That year: 2000, Classical music, British singer . Inception: Gotham Chamber Opera That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Steven Kronauer That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: Quartetto di Cremona That year: 2000, Classical music. Inauguration: Sibelius Hall That year: 2000, Classical music (Lahti, Finland). Inception: Southern Gospel Choir That year: 2000, Classical music. Inception: London Bulgarian Choir That year: 2000, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inception: Salt Marsh Opera That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Joyful Noise That year: 2000, Classical music (United States of America). Inauguration: Cabardièses That year: 2000, Classical music (Pennautier, France).
Works (composition or publishing)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (age 72)
- 3 x Refrain 2000, Op. 11 1/2 (Work for chamber orchestra)
- Philip Glass (1937-0000)
- Piano Concerto No. 1, “Tirol” (Work for orchestra with soloist)
- Concerto Fantasy (Work for orchestra with soloist)