These we have lost in 2018

These we have lost in 2018

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norman lebrecht

December 19, 2018

It has been a year of sad and sudden departures, many of them far too young:

Composers:

Noam Sheriff

 

Oliver Knussen

Dieter Schnebel

Glen Roven

Martin Dalby

Milko Kelemen

Bo Nilsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson, 48

Matt Marks, 38

Daniel Barkley, 28

 

Conductors:

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Enoch zu Guttenberg

Jesús López Cobos

Jean-Claude Malgoire

Harold Farberman

Edward Simons, 101

 

Violinists, violists:

Wanda Wilkomirska

 

Levine Andrade

Anshel Brusilow

Herman Krebbers

Michael Tree

Didier Lockwood

Nina Beilina

 

cellists:

Philip De Groote

Jean Grout

Nelson Cooke

 

pianists:

Ivan Davis

Lívia Rév, 101

 

 

Singers:

Montserrate Caballe

Claudio Desderi

Maxim Mikhailov

Sylvia Geszty

Carlo Cava

Teo Maiste

 

 

Music biz:

Charles Hamlen

Lee Lamont

Robert Rattray

Olimpia Gineri

 

 

Comments

  • John Nelson says:

    Also the Russian soprano Valentina Levko!

  • A P Hogbin says:

    Didn’t see Caballe mentioned among the singers!

  • John McMurray says:

    Robert Rattray

  • Tom Seligman says:

    Amongst composers, also the wonderful Alan Charlton, as you reported a few months back.

  • YB Schragadove says:

    Let’s not forget pianist Igor Zhukov.

  • anon says:

    Richard Hundley among composers

  • V.Lind says:

    And yet the musical death that will resonate the most this year is probably that of Aretha Franklin.

  • We value your privacy says:

    Still a few days to go, though. On my calendar, 2018 ends on 31 December, at midnight.

  • Abbado'14 says:

    Caballé is the first one mentioned…

  • Herbert von Solti says:

    Maestro Claudio Scimone???

  • Kevin Scott says:

    No mention of George Walker.

  • ANTONY C WALKER says:

    Ave atque vale Richard Gill OA, Australian conductor and music educator…

  • Byrwec Ellison says:

    Also the wonderful French tenor and character role actor Michel Sénéchal on April 1, age 91

  • Joel says:

    Other important names in the classical and opera world that left us in this 2018: José Antonio Abreu, Huguette Tourangeau, Sergio Segalini, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Hubert Delamboye, Tito Capobianco, Audrey Stottler… to name only a few.

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