The year 2017 in classical music and in lyrical art
2017. With other artists, Michel Legrand, Gia Kancheli and Jóhann Jóhannsson influenced their time (modern & contemporary era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, while others would disappear such as Dmitry Khvorostovsky. That year, halls or orchestras would be founded or ceased to operate.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 2017 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 140 of these moments for 2017.
2017, from day to day
January
02
Death of Anthony GoldstoneThat year: 2017, Classical music, British pianist (born in 1944)
03
Death of Barbara FeiThat year: 2017, Classical music, Hong Kong opera singer (born in 1931)
04
Death of Georges PrêtreThat year: 2017, Classical music, French orchestral and opera conductor (born in 1924)
05
Death of Géori BouéThat year: 2017, Classical music, French opera singer (born in 1918)
Death of Slava BondarenkoThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet and israeli actor and singer (born in 1932)
07
Death of Ming-Ming HsiaoThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1941)
08
Death of Nicolai GeddaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swedish opera singer (born in 1925)
10
Death of Augustinas ArmonasThat year: 2017, Classical music, Lithuanian flautist and conductor (born in 1922)
Death of Lucienne JourfierThat year: 2017, Classical music, French singer (born in 1923)
11
Inauguration: Elbe Philharmonic HallThat year: 2017, Classical music (Hamburg-Mitte, Germany)
12
Death of Rosemarie LangThat year: 2017, Classical music, German opera singer (mezzosoprano) (born in 1947)
Death of Damián RamírezThat year: 2017, Classical music, Argentine singer (born in 1985)
13
Death of Anton NanutThat year: 2017, Classical music, Slovenian musician (born in 1932)
Death of Fumiko ShiragaThat year: 2017, Classical music, German–Japanese pianist (born in 1967)
14
Death of Eduard TsangaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Russian opera singer (born in 1979)
16
Death of Gerd GrochowskiThat year: 2017, Classical music, German opera singer (bass) (born in 1956)
18
Death of Roberta PetersThat year: 2017, Classical music, American operatic soprano (born in 1930)
21
Death of Veljo TormisThat year: 2017, Classical music, Estonian composer (born in 1930)
Death of Klára TakácsThat year: 2017, Classical music, Hungarian opera singer (born in 1945)
Death of Anatoliy KatzThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet composer and pianist (born in 1936)
27
Death of Pável Aleksándrovitch KoudriávtchenkoThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer, singer (born in 1952)
28
Death of Andrzej NikodemowiczThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish composer, pianist and music educator (born in 1925)
February
02
Death of Květa KoníčkováThat year: 2017, Classical music, music pedagogue, opera singer (born in 1932)
04
Death of Gervase de PeyerThat year: 2017, Classical music, English clarinetist and conductor (born in 1926)
Death of Aleksey MoiseyenkoThat year: 2017, Classical music, Russian opera singer (born in 1947)
17
Death of Fan RuijuanThat year: 2017, Classical music, Chinese opera singer (born in 1924)
21
Death of Stanisław SkrowaczewskiThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish composer and conductor (born in 1923)
23
Death of Sonja KnittelThat year: 2017, Classical music, Austrian singer and opera singer (born in 1923)
24
Death of Leonid YekimovThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer from Russia (born in 1931)
28
Death of Claude PascalThat year: 2017, Classical music, French composer (born in 1921)
Death of Leoncjusz CiuciuraThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish composer (born in 1930)
Death of Nina StanoThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish opera singer (born in 1919)
March
05
Death of Kurt MollThat year: 2017, Classical music, German opera singer (born in 1938)
07
Death of Francis ThorneThat year: 2017, Classical music, American composer (born in 1922)
09
Death of Kaljo JohannsonThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer, singer (born in 1937)
16
Death of Roberta KnieThat year: 2017, Classical music, singer (born in 1938)
17
Death of Taras YachshenkoThat year: 2017, Classical music, Ukrainian composer and pianist (born in 1964)
20
Death of Louis FrémauxThat year: 2017, Classical music, French conductor (born in 1921)
23
Death of Nina OksentyanThat year: 2017, Classical music, Russian organist and professor of music (born in 1916)
24
Death of Miquel Roger CasamadaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Spanish music producer, teaching and composer (born in 1954)
28
Death of Nada Puttar-GoldThat year: 2017, Classical music, Croatian opera singer (born in 1923)
31
Death of Kálmán KunságiThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1936)
April
08
Death of Rita Orlandi-MalaspinaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Operatic tenor (born in 1937)
10
Death of Vuk KulenovicThat year: 2017, Classical music, Bosnia and Herzegovina musician (born in 1946)
12
Death of Kathleen CasselloThat year: 2017, Classical music, American operatic soprano (born in 1958)
14
Death of Manfred JungThat year: 2017, Classical music, German singer and operatic tenor (born in 1940)
15
Death of Dorothy DorowThat year: 2017, Classical music, British opera singer (born in 1930)
21
Death of Kristine JepsonThat year: 2017, Classical music, singer (born in 1962)
Death of Maria Zhorella FedorovaThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1915)
22
Death of Václav KučeraThat year: 2017, Classical music, Czech music educator, composer and musicologist (born in 1929)
24
Death of Agnes GiebelThat year: 2017, Classical music, German singer (born in 1921)
25
Death of Miroslav SmyčkaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Czech Esperantist and opera singer (born in 1926)
26
Death of Endrik WottrichThat year: 2017, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (born in 1964)
27
Death of Eduard BrunnerThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swiss musician (1939-2017) (born in 1939)
28
Death of Theo LoosliThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swiss conductor and choir director (born in 1924)
Also in April
Death of John Bell YoungThat year: 2017, Classical music, American musician (born in 1953) .
May
01
Death of Éliane LublinThat year: 2017, Classical music, French opera singer (born in 1938)
02
Death of Norma ProcterThat year: 2017, Classical music, English operatic contralto (born in 1928)
14
Death of David GeppertThat year: 2017, Classical music, composer (born in 1921)
22
Death of Barbara Smith ConradThat year: 2017, Classical music, singer (1937-2017) (born in 1945)
24
Death of Claudia HellmannThat year: 2017, Classical music, German contralto (born in 1931)
25
Death of Hanna LeybrandThat year: 2017, Classical music, German opera singer and writer (born in 1945)
28
Death of Elisabeth ChojnackaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish musician (born in 1939)
30
Death of John BrecknockThat year: 2017, Classical music, English operatic tenor (born in 1937)
31
Death of Jiří BělohlávekThat year: 2017, Classical music, Czech conductor (born in 1946)
June
02
Death of Jeffrey TateThat year: 2017, Classical music, British conductor (born in 1943)
03
Death of Jacques BeaudryThat year: 2017, Classical music, Canadian organist and conductor (born in 1924)
Death of Jadwiga DzikównaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish opera singer (born in 1925)
06
Death of Paul ZukofskyThat year: 2017, Classical music, American violinist (born in 1943)
07
Death of Evan Alva TonsingThat year: 2017, Classical music, composer (born in 1939)
13
Death of Rauf AliyevThat year: 2017, Classical music, composer, musician (born in 1947)
15
Death of Jacques CharpentierThat year: 2017, Classical music, French composer (born in 1933)
Death of Anton WendlerThat year: 2017, Classical music, Austrian opera singer (born in 1934)
18
Death of Cornera DünnwaldThat year: 2017, Classical music, composer (born in 1928)
20
Death of Ludger RémyThat year: 2017, Classical music, German conductor and musicologist (born in 1949)
23
Death of William DehningThat year: 2017, Classical music, American conductor (born in 1942)
July
02
Death of Jorma FalckThat year: 2017, Classical music, Finnish actor (born in 1939)
05
Death of Pierre HenryThat year: 2017, Classical music, French composer (born in 1927)
07
Death of Egil Monn-IversenThat year: 2017, Classical music, Norwegian composer, conductor and producer (born in 1928)
16
Death of Eva DěpoltováThat year: 2017, Classical music, singer (born in 1945)
18
Death of José BragatoThat year: 2017, Classical music, Argentine musician (born in 1915)
22
Death of Ernst OttensamerThat year: 2017, Classical music, Austrian musician (born in 1955)
25
Death of Ivana LoudováThat year: 2017, Classical music, Czech music educator and composer (born in 1941)
Death of Endre ÜtőThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer, theatre manager (born in 1937)
26
Death of Paul AngererThat year: 2017, Classical music, Austrian violist, conductor and composer (born in 1927)
27
Death of Gilles TremblayThat year: 2017, Classical music, Canadian composer (born in 1932)
30
Death of Hugh McLeanThat year: 2017, Classical music, Canadian pianist, organist, musicologist, and music educator (born in 1930)
Also in July
Inauguration: International Music Festival GuarandaThat year: 2017, Classical music (Guaranda, Ecuador) .
August
03
Death of Claudia Pinza BozzollaThat year: 2017, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1925)
06
Death of Jerzy KuleszaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish opera singer (born in 1923)
10
Death of Xavier BenguerelThat year: 2017, Classical music, Spanish composer (born in 1931)
15
Death of Pavel EgorovThat year: 2017, Classical music, Russian pianist (born in 1948)
20
Death of Wilhelm KillmayerThat year: 2017, Classical music, German composer and academic (born in 1927)
25
Death of Enzo DaraThat year: 2017, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1938)
Death of Majoie HajaryThat year: 2017, Classical music, French pianist (born in 1921)
September
05
Death of Holger CzukayThat year: 2017, Classical music, German bass-guitarist and co-founder of "Can" (born in 1938)
06
Death of Derek BourgeoisThat year: 2017, Classical music, English composer (b. 1941) (born in 1941)
12
Death of Nicoletta PanniThat year: 2017, Classical music, Italian soprano singer (born in 1933)
16
Death of Brenda LewisThat year: 2017, Classical music, American operatic soprano (born in 1921)
18
Death of Zurab SotkilavaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Georgian opera singer (1937-2017) (born in 1937)
19
Death of Leonid KharitonovThat year: 2017, Classical music, Russian singer (born in 1933)
23
Death of Tsisana TatishviliThat year: 2017, Classical music, Georgian opera singer and music educator (born in 1937)
26
Death of Ruth LomonThat year: 2017, Classical music, Canadian composer (born in 1930)
October
01
Death of Gino TaddeiThat year: 2017, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1933)
02
Death of Klaus HuberThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swiss composer (1924-2017) (born in 1924)
03
Death of Janos SolyomThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swedish pianist (born in 1938)
07
Death of Daniel PezzottiThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swiss cellist (1962-2017) (born in 1962)
15
Death of Romuald TesarowiczThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1952)
16
Death of Nikolaj OhotnikovThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet singer and opera singer (born in 1937)
17
Death of Ingvar LidholmThat year: 2017, Classical music, Swedish composer (born in 1921)
31
Death of Júlia KukelyThat year: 2017, Classical music, Hungarian opera singer (born in 1953)
November
03
Death of Gaetano BardiniThat year: 2017, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1929)
05
Death of Louis RoneyThat year: 2017, Classical music, American singer and opera singer (born in 1921)
07
Death of Robert De CormierThat year: 2017, Classical music, American conductor and composer (born in 1922)
08
Death of Georgy PortnovThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet conductor and composer (born in 1928)
12
Death of Michel ChapuisThat year: 2017, Classical music, French organist (born in 1930)
Death of Eric SalzmanThat year: 2017, Classical music, American musicologist and composer (born in 1933)
15
Death of Luis BacalovThat year: 2017, Classical music, Argentine composer, musician; nationalized Italian; Oscar winning film score composer (born in 1933)
20
Death of Izabella ZielińskaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish pianist and pedagogue (born in 1910)
22
Death of Dmitry KhvorostovskyThat year: 2017, Classical music, Russian operatic baritone (born in 1962)
23
Death of Carol NeblettThat year: 2017, Classical music, American soprano (born in 1946)
29
Death of Edgardo ZayasThat year: 2017, Classical music, Puerto Rican opera singer, concert singer and vocal pedagogue (born in 1964)
30
Death of Werner StückmannThat year: 2017, Classical music, German opera singer (born in 1936)
December
02
Death of William BlankenshipThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1928)
04
Death of Carles Santos VenturaThat year: 2017, Classical music, Spanish artist (born in 1940)
05
Death of Claudine ArnaudThat year: 2017, Classical music, Belgian opera singer (born in 1940)
07
Death of Žermēna Heine-VāgnereThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet opera singer and music educator (born in 1923)
08
Death of Liisa Linko-MalmioThat year: 2017, Classical music, opera singer, university teacher (born in 1917)
11
Death of Bruce RankinThat year: 2017, Classical music, British opera singer (born in 1952)
15
Death of Pavol MauréryThat year: 2017, Classical music, Slovak operatic baritone (born in 1935)
21
Death of Marilyn TylerThat year: 2017, Classical music, American soprano (born in 1926)
22
Death of Valentin Nikolaevitsj BadjarovThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet musician and singer (born in 1947)
25
Death of Vladimir ShainskyThat year: 2017, Classical music, Soviet and Russian composer (born in 1925)
26
Death of Paweł LeoniecThat year: 2017, Classical music, Polish opera singer (born in 1921)
This was also in 2017
Death of Gisela LitzThat year: 2017, Classical music, German operatic contralto (born in 1922). Inauguration: The Grange FestivalThat year: 2017, Classical music (Itchen Stoke and Ovington, United Kingdom). Inauguration: Zhuhai Grand TheatreThat year: 2017, Classical music (Zhuhai, People's Republic of China). Inauguration: Ganja State Philharmonic HallThat year: 2017, Classical music (Ganja, Azerbaijan). Inauguration: Teatro Victor Raúl Lozaño IbañezThat year: 2017, Classical music (Trujillo, Peru).