2024 is a busy year for composer anniversaries – this list is not exhaustive but aims to capture the ‘big names’ celebrating/commemorating ‘big’ numbers:
02 Jan – Sabine Baring Gould (d.100)
07 Jan – Francis Poulenc (b.125)
01 Feb – Maria Theresia von Paradis (d.200)
24 Feb – Matthias Weckmann (b.350)
02 Mar – Bedřich Smetana (b.200)
07 Mar – John Wilbye (b.450)
10 Mar – Angela Morley/Wally Stott (b.100)
29 March – Charles Villiers Stanford (d.100)
03 Apr – Basil Harwood (d.75)
16 Apr – Henry Mancini (b.100)
11 Jun – Théodore Dubois (d.100) and Richard Strauss (d.75)
22 Jun – Darius Milhaud (d.50)
23 Jun – Carl Reinecke (b.200)
14 Jul – Pelham Humfrey (d.350)
26 Jul – Serge Koussevitzky (b.150)
27 Jul – Ferruccio Busoni (d.100)
09 Aug – Reynaldo Hahn (b.150)
22 Aug – Edward Bairstow (b.150)
04 Sep – Anton Bruckner (b.200)
13 Sep – Arnold Schönberg (b.150)
21 Sep – Gustav Holst (b.150)
17 Oct – Frédéric Chopin (d.175)
20 Oct – Charles Ives (b.150)
c.11 Nov – Robert White (d.450)
11 Nov – Gabriel Fauré (d.100)
21 Nov – Frank Martin (d.50)
27 Nov – Guillaume Dufay (d.550)
29 Nov – Giacomo Puccini (d.100)
08 Dec – Xaver Scharwenka (d.100)
22 Dec – Franz Schmidt (b.150)
24 Dec – Peter Cornelius (b.200)
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