2008, from day to day
2008. With other artists, Mikis Theodorakis, Paco de Lucía and James Horner influenced their time (modern & contemporary era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, while others would disappear such as Muslim Magomayev. That year, new works would be composed, published or performed for the first time in public, such as “Los Paisajes del Rio” 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 2008 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 2008.
The year 2008 in classical music and in lyrical art
January
07
Death of Raffaello de Banfield That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian composer (born in 1922)
13
Death of Sergej Larin That year: 2008, Classical music, Russian opera singer (born in 1956)
Death of Giuliano Ciannella That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1943)
18
Death of Pier Miranda Ferraro That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1924)
Death of Frank Lewin That year: 2008, Classical music, American composer (1925-2008) (born in 1925)
20
Death of Klara Barlow That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (1928-2008) (born in 1928)
21
Death of Lutfiyar Imanov That year: 2008, Classical music, Azerbaijani opera singer (born in 1928)
22
Death of Andreas Oldervik That year: 2008, Classical music, Norwegian singer (1981-2008) (born in 1981)
23
Death of René Bianco That year: 2008, Classical music, French opera singer (born in 1908)
25
Death of Choi Chang-gwon That year: 2008, Classical music, South Korean composer (1934-2008) (born in 1934)
31
Death of Giorgio Tadeo That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian singer (1929-2008) (born in 1929)
Also in January
Inauguration: Echo Arena Liverpool That year: 2008, Classical music (Liverpool, United Kingdom) .
February
04
Death of Petr Pokorný That year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer, pianist and educator (born in 1932)
Death of Jocelyne Carissimo That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1952)
08
Death of Hans Joachim Kauffmann That year: 2008, Classical music, German university teacher and conductor (1926-2008) (born in 1926)
10
Death of Inga Nielsen That year: 2008, Classical music, Danish opera soprano (1946-2008) (born in 1946)
13
Death of Roger Voisin That year: 2008, Classical music, American musician (1918-2008) (born in 1918)
14
Death of Ryszarda Racewicz That year: 2008, Classical music, Polish opera singer (1945-2008) (born in 1945)
Death of Ingeborg Fanger That year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer (1921-2008) (born in 1921)
Death of Gunnar Gunn That year: 2008, Classical music, Norwegian opera singer (born in 1926)
16
Death of Elizabeth Mawson That year: 2008, Classical music, Canadian mezzo-soprano singer (born in 1927)
Death of Lesław Wacławik That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1922)
18
Death of Mikel Dean That year: 2008, Classical music, American baritone (1954-2008) (born in 1954)
23
Death of Boris Čechovský That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1909)
26
Death of Arthur Eisen That year: 2008, Classical music, Russian actor and opera singer (1927-2008) (born in 1927)
27
Death of Ivan Rebroff That year: 2008, Classical music, German singer (1931–2008) (born in 1931)
Also in February
Death of Rosa Rimoch That year: 2008, Classical music, Mexican musician (born in 1928) .
March
03
Death of Giuseppe di Di Stefano That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1921)
11
Death of Alun Hoddinott That year: 2008, Classical music, Welsh composer (born in 1929)
13
Death of Elizabeth Gilels That year: 2008, Classical music, Ukrainian violinist (1919–2008) (born in 1919)
15
Death of Kawken Kenzjetajev That year: 2008, Classical music, Soviet opera singer and actor (1916-2008) (born in 1916)
18
Death of Makizō Nakagawa That year: 2008, Classical music, Japanese singer (1902-2008) (born in 1902)
20
Death of Helmut Pampuch That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1940)
21
Death of John Noble That year: 2008, Classical music, English baritone singer (1931-2008) (born in 1931)
23
Death of Lella Cincu That year: 2008, Classical music, Romanian soprano (1923-2008) (born in 1923)
25
Death of Gerhard Samuel That year: 2008, Classical music, American conductor and composer (born in 1924)
29
Death of Dimitri Nicolau That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian composer (1946-2008) (born in 1946)
April
02
Death of Jacques Bondon That year: 2008, Classical music, French composer (born in 1927)
03
Death of Brenda Miller Cooper That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1916)
06
Death of Aloyzas Domeika That year: 2008, Classical music, Lithuanian singer (born in 1927)
08
Death of Loren Driscoll That year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1928)
10
Death of Ramiz Mustafayev That year: 2008, Classical music, Azerbaijani composer (1926-2008) (born in 1926)
12
Inauguration: Oslo Opera House That year: 2008, Classical music (Oslo Municipality, Norway)
Death of Jozef Konder That year: 2008, Classical music, Slovak opera singer (born in 1926)
14
Inception: Coral de Cámara de Navarra That year: 2008, Classical music (Spain)
15
Death of Enzo Sordello That year: 2008, Classical music, Operatic baritone (born in 1927)
20
Death of Jiří Kalach That year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer (born in 1934)
26
Death of Henry Brant That year: 2008, Classical music, American composer (born in 1913)
27
Death of Štefan Babjak That year: 2008, Classical music, Slovak opera singer (born in 1931)
Death of Frances Yeend That year: 2008, Classical music, American singer (born in 1913)
May
01
Death of Aleksey Levitsky That year: 2008, Classical music, Soviet Russian singer (1931-2008) (born in 1931)
02
Death of Wojciech Dzieduszycki That year: 2008, Classical music, Polish actor, singer and theatre critic (born in 1912)
10
Death of Leyla Gencer That year: 2008, Classical music, Turkish soprano (born in 1928)
Death of Achim Wichert That year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer and music educator (1934-2008) (born in 1934)
17
Death of Uwe Kreyssig That year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer and director (1930-2008) (born in 1930)
18
Death of Joseph Willard Roosevelt That year: 2008, Classical music, American musician (born in 1918)
25
Death of Carla Gavazzi That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (1913-2008) (born in 1913)
June
10
Death of Tuula Tillaeus That year: 2008, Classical music, Finnish stage actor (1945-2008) (born in 1945)
15
Inception: Battle of the Choirs That year: 2008, Classical music (Australia)
20
Death of Antonio Bibalo That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian-Norwegian musician (born in 1922)
Death of Adelaide Bishop That year: 2008, Classical music, singer and actress (1928-2008) (born in 1928)
21
Death of Kaoru Chiba That year: 2008, Classical music, Japanese hornist (born in 1928)
30
Death of Erich Witte That year: 2008, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (born in 1911)
Death of Otte Svendsen That year: 2008, Classical music, Danish opera singer and autobiographer (1918-2008) (born in 1918)
July
06
Death of Olga Brucci That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1923)
11
Death of John van Kesteren That year: 2008, Classical music, Dutch opera singer (born in 1921)
Death of Li Yuru That year: 2008, Classical music, Chinese opera singer (born in 1924)
18
Death of Tauno Marttinen That year: 2008, Classical music, Finnish composer (1912-2008) (born in 1912)
21
Death of Harro Fromme That year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer (1921-2008) (born in 1921)
22
Death of Heinz Kruse That year: 2008, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (1940-2008) (born in 1940)
24
Death of Norman Dello Joio That year: 2008, Classical music, American musician (born in 1913)
Death of Marian Porębski That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1910)
26
Death of Grace Hoffman That year: 2008, Classical music, American singer (born in 1925)
27
Death of Horst Stein That year: 2008, Classical music, German conductor (born in 1928)
Death of Sava Popsavov That year: 2008, Classical music, Bulgarian spring (born in 1923)
29
Death of Eula Beal That year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1919)
August
02
Death of Tadashi Hattori That year: 2008, Classical music, Japanese composer (born in 1908)
03
Death of Włodzimierz Gołobów That year: 2008, Classical music, Polish singer (born in 1927)
11
Death of Karel Risinger That year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer and musicologist (born in 1920)
15
Death of Mark Lundberg That year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (1958-2008) (born in 1958)
16
Death of Lucrecia Kasilag That year: 2008, Classical music, Filipino composer, music educator, and National Artist for Music. (born in 1917)
20
Death of Ryszard Arning That year: 2008, Classical music, Polish singer (born in 1940)
25
Death of Josef Tal That year: 2008, Classical music, Israeli composer (1910–2008) (born in 1910)
September
01
Death of Carl Kaufmann That year: 2008, Classical music, German sprinter (1936-2008) (born in 1936)
02
Death of Paula Padrik That year: 2008, Classical music, Estonian opera singer (born in 1926)
07
Death of Peter Glossop That year: 2008, Classical music, Operatic baritone (born in 1928)
08
Death of Hjördis Schymberg That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (1909-2008) (born in 1909)
Death of Marianne Fischer-Kupfer That year: 2008, Classical music, German singer, opera singer and music educator (1922-2008) (born in 1922)
09
Death of Gohar Galachyan That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1923)
Death of Maria Edenhofer That year: 2008, Classical music, Swedish actress (born in 1911)
10
Death of Vernon Handley That year: 2008, Classical music, British conductor (1930–2008) (born in 1930)
Death of Lubomír Koželuha That year: 2008, Classical music, Czech music educator, composer and choirmaster (born in 1918)
12
Death of Marjorie Thomas That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (1923-2008) (born in 1923)
18
Death of Mauricio Kagel That year: 2008, Classical music, Argentine-German composer (1931-2008) (born in 1931)
25
Death of Horațiu Rădulescu That year: 2008, Classical music, Romanian composer (1942-2008) (born in 1942)
26
Death of Bernadette Greevy That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1940)
27
Death of Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar That year: 2008, Classical music, Polish pianist and composer (born in 1924)
Death of Bengt Rundgren That year: 2008, Classical music, Swedish actor (born in 1931)
29
Death of Alois Piňos That year: 2008, Classical music, Czech music educator, composer and university educator (born in 1925)
October
08
Death of Vladas Česas That year: 2008, Classical music, Lithuanian singer (born in 1917)
09
Death of Milan Kymlicka That year: 2008, Classical music, Czechoslovakian and Canadian arranger, composer and conductor (born in 1936)
12
Death of Detlef Gojowy That year: 2008, Classical music, German musicologist and philologist (1934-2008) (born in 1934)
Death of Vessa Hanssen That year: 2008, Classical music, Female opera singer from Norway (born in 1937)
19
Death of Gianni Raimondi That year: 2008, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1923)
Death of Pierre Sancan That year: 2008, Classical music, French musician (born in 1916)
Death of Gail Robinson That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (1946-2008) (born in 1946)
24
Death of Judit Sándor That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1923)
25
Death of Muslim Magomayev That year: 2008, Classical music, soviet-azerbaijani singer (born in 1942)
26
Death of Hélène Fortin That year: 2008, Classical music, Canadian singer (born in 1959)
Death of John Jenkins That year: 2008, Classical music, English classical tuba player
Also in October
Inception: Beijing Queer Chorus That year: 2008, Classical music (People's Republic of China) .
November
03
Death of Jean Fournet That year: 2008, Classical music, French flutist and conductor (1913–2008) (born in 1913)
07
Death of Robert Nagy That year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1929)
12
Death of Serge Nigg That year: 2008, Classical music, French composer (born in 1924)
14
Death of Christel Goltz That year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1912)
16
Death of Hella Ruttkowski That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1920)
23
Death of Richard Hickox That year: 2008, Classical music, English conductor (1948-2008) (born in 1948)
24
Death of Goran Simić That year: 2008, Classical music, Serbian opera singer (born in 1953)
Also in November
Dissolution: CBC Radio Orchestra That year: 2008, Classical music (Canada) .
December
01
Death of Enid Hartle That year: 2008, Classical music, British opera singer (1935-2008) (born in 1935)
02
Death of Ellen Faull That year: 2008, Classical music, American operatic soprano singer (born in 1918)
04
Death of Richard Van Allan That year: 2008, Classical music, versatile British operatic bass singer (born in 1935)
Death of Irma González That year: 2008, Classical music, Mexican opera soprano (born in 1916)
Death of Miroslav Hlaváč That year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer (1923-2008) (born in 1923)
15
Death of Valentin Berlinsky That year: 2008, Classical music, Russian musician (1925-2008) (born in 1925)
16
Death of Cornelis Opthof That year: 2008, Classical music, Canadian opera singer (born in 1930)
17
Death of Turgun Alimatov That year: 2008, Classical music, Uzbek classic music and shashmaqam virtuoso and composer (born in 1922)
20
Death of Dorothy Sarnoff That year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1914)
21
Death of Robert Wagner That year: 2008, Classical music, Austrian conductor (born in 1915)
26
Death of Israel Horowitz That year: 2008, Classical music, Record producer and classical music columnist (born in 1916)
Death of Ingjerd Oda Mantor That year: 2008, Classical music, Norwegian opera singer (1958-2008) (born in 1958)
27
Death of Roque Cordero That year: 2008, Classical music, Panamanian composer (born in 1917)
Inauguration: Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center That year: 2008, Classical music (Konak, Turkey)
This was also in 2008
Inception: Video Game Orchestra That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Closing: Festival de Valloires That year: 2008, Classical music (Argoules, France). Inception: Red Note Ensemble That year: 2008, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inauguration: Atlantic Music Festival That year: 2008, Classical music (Maine, United States of America). Inception: Il Gusto Barocco That year: 2008, Classical music. Inception: Voices of Gotham That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Death of Aleksander Kovač That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1920) . Inception: Dover Quartet That year: 2008, Classical music. Inception: Harmony Express Men's Chorus That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Ensemble neoN That year: 2008, Classical music (Norway). Inception: Ensemble Leones That year: 2008, Classical music (Germany). Inception: Le Balcon That year: 2008, Classical music (France). Inception: Boston Metro Opera That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Dissolution: Beaux Arts Trio That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Männerstimmen Basel That year: 2008, Classical music. Inception: yMusic That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Tyburn String Quartet That year: 2008, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inauguration: Festival de Música Antigua 'Villa de Calasparra' That year: 2008, Classical music (Calasparra, Spain). Inception: Orchestra Kingston That year: 2008, Classical music (Canada). Inauguration: Lyceum Music Festival That year: 2008, Classical music (Utah, United States of America). Death of Siegfried Pokern That year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer (born in 1976) . Inception: Персимфанс That year: 2008, Classical music. Inception: Marcsmen That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Gringolts Quartet That year: 2008, Classical music. Inception: Philharmonie Festiva That year: 2008, Classical music. Death of Marie Ovčačíková That year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1927) . Inception: Russian Conservatoria Chamber Capella That year: 2008, Classical music (Russia). Inception: Cavaleri String Quartet That year: 2008, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inception: London Contemporary Orchestra That year: 2008, Classical music (United Kingdom). Inception: La Compagnia del Madrigale That year: 2008, Classical music. Inauguration: Festival Les Amateurs ! That year: 2008, Classical music (Paris, France). Inception: Discovery Ensemble That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Orchestra of the Music Makers That year: 2008, Classical music (Singapore). Inauguration: Eastwind That year: 2008, Classical music (New Delhi, India). Closing: Muziekcentrum Vredenburg That year: 2008, Classical music (Utrecht, Netherlands). Inception: Chamber Choir Head Ööd, Vend That year: 2008, Classical music (Estonia). Inception: Musicians of the King's Road That year: 2008, Classical music. Inception: Hillhouse Opera Company That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Closing: ARTSaha! That year: 2008, Classical music (Omaha, United States of America). Dissolution: Alban Berg Quartet That year: 2008, Classical music. Inauguration: New building of the Slovak National Theatre That year: 2008, Classical music (Old Town of Bratislava, Slovakia). Inception: The Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle That year: 2008, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: New European Ensemble That year: 2008, Classical music (Netherlands). Inception: Monte Piano Trio That year: 2008, Classical music.
Works (composition or publishing)
- Philip Glass (1937-0000)
- Los Paisajes del Rio (Work for chamber orchestra)
- 4 Movements (Work for chamber orchestra)
- Sonata (Work for chamber orchestra)
- The Bacchae (Theatrical music)