These we have lost, 2019
mainMariss Jansons
Andre Previn
Jessye Norman
Composers: Giya Kancheli, Christopher Rouse, Michel Legrand, Hans Zender, Dominick Argento , Jacques Loussier, Joao Gilberto, Theo Verbey, Ivo Malec, Mario Davidovsky, Barrington Pheloung, Ben Johnston, Michael Colgrass, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Sven-David Sandström, Ami Maayani, John Joubert, Chou Wen-chung, Ib Norholm, René Samson, Jerry Herman
Conductors: Stephen Cleobury, Michael Gielen, Simon Streatfeild, Elio Boncompagni, Werner Andreas Albert, Ján Valach, John Curro, Colin Mawby, Raymond Leppard
Pianists: Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda. Dina Ugorskaja, Daniel Wayenberg, Alexander Tamir, Karen Shaw, Paola Bruni, Márta Kurtág, Dalton Baldwin, Abbey Simon
Violinists: Aaron Rosand, Elliott Golub, Marya Columbia
Violist Jerry Horner
Cellists: Uzi Wiesel, Vladimir Orloff, Vagram Saradjian, Anner Bylsma
Singers: Hilde Zadek, Heather Harper, Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, Marcello Giordani, Felice Schiavi, Joseph Rouleau, Mira Zakai, Deborah Cook, Sanford Sylvan, Wilma Lipp, Ann Crumb, Rolando Panerai, Carol Channing, Peter Schreier
Directors: Johannes Schaaf, Hal Prince, Franco Zeffirelli, Jonathan Miller
Horns: Gerd Seiffert, Norman Schweikert
Percussionist Richard Weiner
Guitarist Alberto Ponce
Impresarios: Victor Hochhauser, Walter Homburger, Naomi Graffman
Critics: Paul J Pelkonen, Claude Gingras, Robert Henderson, Roger Covell, Martin Bernheimer
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Franco Zeffirelli (June).
Good to see Roger Covell, who was also a musicologist, author & occasional conductor, recognised in this list.
Franco Zeffirelli
Baritone Theo Adam
Thank you for the remembrances. Might we add Martin Bernheimer to the list of critics?
So Elliott Carter is still alive at 111?
Sorry: comment above attached to the wrong list. Mea culpa
In 50 years we will continue to hear the music of Andre and Mariss from LA, London, Munich and Amsterdam
Jonathan Miller?
Richard Weiner was a legendary George Szell-era Cleveland Orchestra Principal Percussionist, listed above under horn. Might you have intended to write Michael (Mike) Bloom, Szell’s legendary Principal Horn player here? He is missing.
Myron Bloom…
As further proof of the prominence of Mr. Bloom’s role in the greatness of Szell era is the fact that, the only George Szell endowed chair in the Cleveland Orchestra is that of Principal Horn!
My apology:
Myron Bloom was Szell‘s Principal Horn who passed away this year (as was reported here)
WIth such lists, it seems that more musicians are dying than are born. We need also lists of great musicians who were born this year, to compensate for the gloom.
Thank you for your light remark!
Raymond Leppard, pionneer for Monteverdi and Cavalli during the 20th century. His interpretation is now outdated and questionable but nobody was speaking about Cavalli in the 60’s and 70’s.
Outdated but deeply musical.
Richard Weiner was a percussionist. He was the Principal Percussionist of The Cleveland Orchestra for many years.
Tubist-Sam Pilafian
Anner Bylsma
Sorry to see that Martin Bernheimer didn’t make the cut.
Also, Michael Grebanier, for over 40 years a member of the San Francisco Symphony and principal cellist at the end of his career. Died shortly before Christmas.
Marie Fredriksson (December).
Ahem! ‘A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic’ (Jean Sibelius)
You seem to have forgotten to add to this list the wonderful and under appreciated conductor Jerzy Semkow https://slippedisc.com/2014/12/sad-news-death-of-an-international-maestro/
Italian Tenor Umberto Grilli.
Organists Jean Guillou and Peter Hurford
Sopranos Erika Sziklay (her Pierrot Lunaire remains unsurpassed) and Margit Laszlo
Musicologists Alejandro Planchart and Ferenc Bonis
Cellist Anner Bylsma
Composers Miklos Kocsar and Zoltan Jeney
Ballerina Alicia Alonzo
Critics Clive James and John Simon
Lutenist-guitarist Daniel Benko
Could you include Flummerfelt and Hurford in your list? I see you might have missed them out.
Michael Gielen an amazing Conductor in 20th century music as well as Bruckner and Mahler deserves to be named in the same breath as Jansons.
Why did you leave out Ekkehard Wlaschiha? (28 May 1938 – 20 February 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libGLa-U-H8&t=1h11m17s
James Christiansen, baritone
Jerry Epstein, viola; Martin Bernheimer, Pulitzer Prize winning critic.