The year 2008 in classical music and in lyrical art

2008. With other artists, Gia Kancheli, Pierre Boulez and Krzysztof Penderecki 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.

2008, from day to day

2008

modern & contemporary era

January

February

04

Death of Petr PokornýThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer, pianist and educator (born in 1932)

08

Death of Hans Joachim KauffmannThat year: 2008, Classical music, German university teacher and conductor (1926-2008) (born in 1926)

10

Death of Inga NielsenThat year: 2008, Classical music, Danish opera soprano (born in 1946)

13

Death of Roger VoisinThat year: 2008, Classical music, American musician (born in 1918)

14

Death of Ryszarda RacewiczThat year: 2008, Classical music, Polish opera singer (born in 1945)

Death of Ingeborg FangerThat year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer (born in 1921)

Death of Gunnar GunnThat year: 2008, Classical music, Norwegian opera singer (born in 1926)

16

Death of Elizabeth MawsonThat year: 2008, Classical music, Canadian mezzo-soprano singer (born in 1927)

Death of Lesław WacławikThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer, singer (born in 1922)

18

Death of Mikel DeanThat year: 2008, Classical music, American baritone (born in 1954)

23

Death of Boris ČechovskýThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1909)

26

Death of Arthur EisenThat year: 2008, Classical music, Russian actor and opera singer (born in 1927)

27

Death of Ivan RebroffThat year: 2008, Classical music, German singer (born in 1931)

Also in February

Death of Rosa RimochThat year: 2008, Classical music, Mexican musician (born in 1928) .

March

03

Death of Giuseppe di Di StefanoThat year: 2008, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1921)

11

Death of Alun HoddinottThat year: 2008, Classical music, Welsh composer (born in 1929)

13

Death of Elizabeth GilelsThat year: 2008, Classical music, Ukrainian violinist (1919–2008) (born in 1919)

15

Death of Kawken KenzjetajevThat year: 2008, Classical music, Soviet opera singer and actor (1916-2008) (born in 1916)

18

Death of Makizō NakagawaThat year: 2008, Classical music, Japanese singer (born in 1902)

20

Death of Helmut PampuchThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1940)

21

Death of John NobleThat year: 2008, Classical music, English baritone singer (born in 1931)

23

Death of Lella CincuThat year: 2008, Classical music, Romanian soprano (born in 1923)

25

Death of Gerhard SamuelThat year: 2008, Classical music, American conductor and composer (born in 1924)

29

Death of Dimitri NicolauThat year: 2008, Classical music, Italian composer (1946-2008) (born in 1946)

April

02

Death of Jacques BondonThat year: 2008, Classical music, French composer (born in 1927)

03

Death of Brenda Miller CooperThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1916)

06

Death of Aloyzas DomeikaThat year: 2008, Classical music, Lithuanian singer (born in 1927)

08

Death of Loren DriscollThat year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1928)

10

Death of Ramiz MustafayevThat year: 2008, Classical music, musical artist (born in 1926)

12

Inauguration: Oslo Opera HouseThat year: 2008, Classical music (Oslo municipality, Norway)

Death of Jozef KonderThat year: 2008, Classical music, Slovak opera singer (born in 1926)

14

Inception: Coral de Cámara de NavarraThat year: 2008, Classical music (Spain)

15

Death of Enzo SordelloThat year: 2008, Classical music, Operatic baritone (born in 1927)

20

Death of Jiří KalachThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer (born in 1934)

26

Death of Henry BrantThat year: 2008, Classical music, American composer (born in 1913)

27

Death of Štefan BabjakThat year: 2008, Classical music, Slovak opera singer (born in 1931)

Death of Frances YeendThat year: 2008, Classical music, American singer (born in 1913)

May

01

Death of Aleksey LevitskiyThat year: 2008, Classical music, Soviet Russian singer (born in 1931)

02

Death of Wojciech DzieduszyckiThat year: 2008, Classical music, Polish actor, singer and theatre critic (born in 1912)

10

Death of Leyla GencerThat year: 2008, Classical music, Turkish soprano (born in 1928)

Death of Achim WichertThat year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer and music educator (born in 1934)

17

Death of Uwe KreyssigThat year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer and director (born in 1930)

18

Death of Joseph Willard RooseveltThat year: 2008, Classical music, American musician (born in 1918)

25

Death of Carla GavazziThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1913)

June

10

Death of Tuula TillaeusThat year: 2008, Classical music, Finnish stage actor (1945-2008) (born in 1945)

15

Inception: Battle of the ChoirsThat year: 2008, Classical music (Australia)

20

Death of Antonio BibaloThat year: 2008, Classical music, Italian-Norwegian musician (born in 1922)

Death of Adelaide BishopThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer and actress (1928-2008) (born in 1928)

21

Death of Kaoru ChibaThat year: 2008, Classical music, Japanese hornist (born in 1928)

30

Death of Erich WitteThat year: 2008, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (born in 1911)

Death of Otte SvendsenThat year: 2008, Classical music, Danish opera singer and autobiographer (born in 1918)

July

06

Death of Olga BrucciThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1923)

11

Death of John van KesterenThat year: 2008, Classical music, Dutch opera singer (born in 1921)

Death of Li YuruThat year: 2008, Classical music, Chinese opera singer (born in 1924)

18

Death of Tauno MarttinenThat year: 2008, Classical music, Finnish composer (born in 1912)

21

Death of Harro FrommeThat year: 2008, Classical music, German opera singer (1921-2008) (born in 1921)

22

Death of Heinz KruseThat year: 2008, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (born in 1940)

24

Death of Norman Dello JoioThat year: 2008, Classical music, American musician (born in 1913)

Death of Marian PorębskiThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer, singer (born in 1910)

26

Death of Grace HoffmanThat year: 2008, Classical music, American singer (born in 1925)

27

Death of Horst SteinThat year: 2008, Classical music, German conductor (born in 1928)

Death of Sava PopsavovThat year: 2008, Classical music, Bulgarian spring (born in 1923)

29

Death of Eula BealThat year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1919)

August

02

Death of Tadashi HattoriThat year: 2008, Classical music, Japanese composer (born in 1908)

03

Death of Włodzimierz GołobówThat year: 2008, Classical music, Polish singer (born in 1927)

11

Death of Karel RisingerThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer and musicologist (born in 1920)

15

Death of Mark LundbergThat year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1958)

16

Death of Lucrecia KasilagThat year: 2008, Classical music, Filipino composer, music educator, and National Artist for Music. (born in 1917)

20

Death of Ryszard ArningThat year: 2008, Classical music, Polish singer (born in 1940)

25

Death of Josef TalThat year: 2008, Classical music, Israeli composer (born in 1910)

September

01

Death of Carl KaufmannThat year: 2008, Classical music, German sprinter (born in 1936)

02

Death of Paula PadrikThat year: 2008, Classical music, Estonian opera singer (born in 1926)

07

Death of Peter GlossopThat year: 2008, Classical music, Operatic baritone (born in 1928)

08

Death of Hjördis SchymbergThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1909)

Death of Marianne Fischer-KupferThat year: 2008, Classical music, German singer, opera singer and music educator (born in 1922)

09

Death of Gohar GalachyanThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1923)

Death of Maria EdenhoferThat year: 2008, Classical music, Swedish actress (born in 1911)

10

Death of Vernon HandleyThat year: 2008, Classical music, British conductor (1930–2008) (born in 1930)

Death of Lubomír KoželuhaThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czech music educator, composer and choirmaster (born in 1918)

12

Death of Marjorie ThomasThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1923)

18

Death of Mauricio KagelThat year: 2008, Classical music, Argentine-German composer (born in 1931)

25

Death of Horațiu RădulescuThat year: 2008, Classical music, Romanian composer (born in 1942)

26

Death of Bernadette GreevyThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1940)

27

Death of Krystyna Moszumańska-NazarThat year: 2008, Classical music, Polish pianist and composer (born in 1924)

Death of Bengt RundgrenThat year: 2008, Classical music, Swedish actor (born in 1931)

29

Death of Alois PiňosThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czech music educator, composer and university educator (born in 1925)

October

08

Death of Vladas ČesasThat year: 2008, Classical music, Lithuanian singer (born in 1917)

09

Death of Milan KymlickaThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czechoslovakian and Canadian arranger, composer and conductor (born in 1936)

12

Death of Detlef GojowyThat year: 2008, Classical music, German musicologist and philologist (born in 1934)

Death of Vessa HanssenThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer, singer (born in 1937)

19

Death of Pierre SancanThat year: 2008, Classical music, French musician (born in 1916)

Death of Gianni RaimondiThat year: 2008, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1923)

Death of Gail RobinsonThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1946)

23

Death of Judit SándorThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1923)

25

Death of Muslim MagomayevThat year: 2008, Classical music, Soviet-Azerbajiani singer (born in 1942)

26

Death of Hélène FortinThat year: 2008, Classical music, Canadian singer (born in 1959)

Death of John JenkinsThat year: 2008, Classical music, English classical tuba player

Also in October

Inception: Beijing Queer ChorusThat year: 2008, Classical music (People's Republic of China) .

November

03

Death of Jean FournetThat year: 2008, Classical music, French conductor (born in 1913)

07

Death of Robert NagyThat year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1929)

12

Death of Serge NiggThat year: 2008, Classical music, French composer (born in 1924)

14

Death of Christel GoltzThat year: 2008, Classical music, singer (born in 1912)

16

Death of Hella RuttkowskiThat year: 2008, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1920)

23

Death of Richard HickoxThat year: 2008, Classical music, English conductor (born in 1948)

24

Death of Goran SimićThat year: 2008, Classical music, Serbian opera singer (born in 1953)

Also in November

Dissolution: CBC Radio OrchestraThat year: 2008, Classical music .

December

01

Death of Enid HartleThat year: 2008, Classical music, British opera singer (born in 1935)

02

Death of Ellen FaullThat year: 2008, Classical music, American operatic soprano singer (born in 1918)

04

Death of Richard Van AllanThat year: 2008, Classical music, versatile British operatic bass singer (born in 1935)

Death of Miroslav HlaváčThat year: 2008, Classical music, Czech composer (born in 1923)

Death of Irma GonzálezThat year: 2008, Classical music, Mexican opera soprano (born in 1916)

15

Death of Valentin BerlinskyThat year: 2008, Classical music, Russian musician (born in 1925)

16

Death of Cornelis OpthofThat year: 2008, Classical music, Canadian opera singer (born in 1930)

17

Death of Turgun AlimatovThat year: 2008, Classical music, Uzbek classic music and shashmaqam virtuoso and composer (born in 1922)

20

Death of Dorothy SarnoffThat year: 2008, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1914)

21

Death of Robert WagnerThat year: 2008, Classical music, Austrian conductor (born in 1915)

26

Death of Israel HorowitzThat year: 2008, Classical music, Record producer and classical music columnist (born in 1916)

Death of Ingjerd Oda MantorThat year: 2008, Classical music, Norwegian opera singer (born in 1958)

27

Death of Roque CorderoThat year: 2008, Classical music, Panamanian composer (born in 1917)

Inauguration: Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts CenterThat year: 2008, Classical music (Konak, Turkey)

This was also in 2008

Works (composition or publishing)

Philip Glass (1937-0000)

Los Paisajes del Rio (Work for chamber orchestra)
The Bacchae (Theatrical music)
4 Movements (Work for chamber orchestra)
Sonata (Work for chamber orchestra)