Composer Anniversaries for 2026

Benjamin Britten (d. 4 December 1976) 

Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 29 March 1936)

Patrick Gowers (b. 5 May 1936) 

Toshiaki Tsushima (b. 22 May 1936) 

Anthony Payne (b. 2 August 1936) 

Steve Reich (b. 3 October 1936) 

Emile Paladilhe (d. 6 January 1926) 

James Erb (b. 25 January 1926) 

Pierre Villette (b. 7 February 1926) 

Friedrich Cerha (b. 17 February 1926) 

Lee Hoiby (b. 17 February 1926) 

György Kurtág (b.19 February 1926) 

Jacques Castérède (b. 10 April 1926) 

Ronald Senator (b. 17 April 1926) 

Joseph Horovitz (b. 26 May 1926) 

Miles Davis (b. 26 May 1926) 

Carlisle Floyd (b. 11 June 1926) 

Lars Johan Werle (b. 23 June 1926) 

Hans Werner Henze (b. 1 July 1926) 

Charles Wood (d. 12 July 1926) 

Betsy Jolas (b. 5 August 1926) 

Edwin Carr (b. 10 August 1926) 

Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhin (b. 15 August 1926) 

Carmen Petra-Basacopol (b. 5 September 1926) 

Arthur Wills (b. 19 September 1926) 

Esther Scliar (b. 28 September 1926) 

Marcello Abbado (7 October 1926) 

Mario Abramovich (b. 31 October 1926) 

Raymond Daveluy (b. 23 December 1926) 

Giuseppe Verdi (d. 27 January 1901) 

Edmund Rubbra (d. 23 May 1901) 

Gerald Finzi (b. 14 July 1901) 

Simon Laks (b. 1 November 1901) 

Josef Rheinberger (d. 25 November 1901) 

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (b. 12 January 1876) 

John Bacchus Dykes (d. 22 January 1876) 

Havergal Brian (b. 29 January 1876) 

Carl Ruggles (b. 11 March 1876)) 

Samuel Sebastian Wesley (d. 19 April 1876) 

Vittorio Gnecchi (b. 17 July 1876) 

Félicien-César David (29 August 1876) 

Manuel de Falla (b. 23 November 1876) 

Pablo Casals (b. 29 December 1876) 

Lionel Tertis (b. 29 December 1876) 

Charles Steggall (b. 3 June 1826) 

Carl Maria von Weber (d. 5 June 1826) 

Julius Stockhausen (b. 22 July 1826) 

Louise Reichardt (d 17 November 1826) 

Domenico Zipoli (d. 2 January 1726) 

Charles Burney (b. 7 April 1726) 

Antonio Maria Bononcini (d. 8 July 1726) 

Francesco Cavalli (d. 15 January 1676) 

Sebastian Knüpfer (d. 10 October 1676) 

Louis-Nicolas Clérembault (b. 19 December 1676) 

Christopher Gibbons (20 October 1676) 

John Dowland (d. 20 February 1626)

Giovanni Legrenzi (b. 12 August 1626) 

Richard Ayleward (year of birth) 

Louis Couperin (year of birth) 

Thomas Weelkes (b. c. 15 October 1576)