Composers of 2017
mainNot a bumper year for composers, with two outstanding exceptions
500 – Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517?)
450 – Monteverdi, Thomas Campion (both born 1567)
350 – Froberger, Pepusch
300 – Matthias Georg Monn (1717–1750), Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)
250 – Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Bernhard Romberg (1767–1841)
200 – Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817–1890), Étienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763–1817)
150 – Amy Beach (1867–1944), Umberto Giordano (1867–1948), Enrique Granados (1867–1916), Charles Koechlin (1867–1950), Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867–1942), Simon Sechter (1788–1867)
100 – Scott Joplin (1868-1917), Richard Arnell (1917-2009), Teresa Carreño (1853–1917), Lou Harrison (1917–2003), Ulysses Kay (1917–1995), Rudolf Maros (1917–1982), Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917), Robert Ward (1917–1994), Isang Yun (1917–1995)
50 – Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967), Marc Lavry (1903–1967), Matthijs Vermeulen (1888–1967), Franz Waxman (1906–1967), Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967).
Care to tell us which two you consider to be “outstanding?”
Knowing him it’s got to be the two ladies… 🙂
I suspect they’re Monteverdi and Kodály. But Telemann must be somewhere close with Joplin not far behind.
Isaac, too.
If Josquin was the revered Handel or Bach of his day, Isaac was the Telemann: highly esteemed if not quite revered, music less
brainypainstakingly wrought but more accessible, much easier to work with, very prolific.In March, it will be the 120th anniversary that Mahler became director of the Vienna Opera.
It’s also the 60th anniversary of the death of Korngold, and Nikon’s 100th anniversary!
There are a number of significant living composers celebrating ’round number’ birthdays this year, to name a few highlights:
80 – Philip Glass, Edwin Roxburgh
70 – John Adams, Salvatore Sciarrino, Nicola LeFanu, Jo Kondo, Tristan Murail, Howard Skempton
60 – David Lang, Bernhard Lang, Tan Dun
50 – Rebecca Saunders, Julian Anderson, Mark Applebaum
40 – Mason Bates, Dai Fujikura
60 years from the death of Sibelius !!
Dizzy Gillespie 100
Please don’t suppress the jewish composer Alexandre Tansman (12.06.1897–15.11.1986)
Thelonious Monk, 100 years