Died today

[San Antone]

Thomas (Tom) Linley the younger (May 7, 1756 – August 5, 1778) was the eldest son of the composer Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson. He was one of the most precocious composers and performers that have been known in England, and became known as the "English Mozart"

https://www.youtube.com/v/AOqHO1jaW2E

[Wakefield]

Thanks for sharing these video and info.

Maybe a general thread on anniversaries in music would be a good idea.

I think we don't have a thread like "Today in Music," "This day" or something like that.

[Florestan]

Good God, am I relieved! I thought you posted from the afterlife!... OMG, brrrrr....

[San Antone]

Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist, died at 29 on August 6th.

With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation.

https://www.youtube.com/v/oW7YYt0F-K4

https://www.youtube.com/v/J2_Ai8dgBko

[jochanaan]

Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist, died at 29 on August 6th.

With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation.

https://www.youtube.com/v/oW7YYt0F-K4

https://www.youtube.com/v/J2_Ai8dgBko

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[Mirror Image]

One of my favorite composers, Peter Sculthorpe, died a year ago today.

[San Antone]

One of my favorite composers, Peter Sculthorpe, died a year ago today.

I don't know his music.  What pieces would you suggest for someone who's heard nothing?

[Ken B]

I don't know his music.  What pieces would you suggest for someone who's heard nothing?

Earth Cry.

There's a great Naxos disc.

[Mirror Image]

I don't know his music.  What pieces would you suggest for someone who's heard nothing?

Well, let's see...

Piano Concerto, Earth Cry, Memento Mori, Cello Dreaming, Sun Music I-IV, Mangrove, and Kakadu.

[San Antone]

Thanks, guys - will check out his music.

TD

Shostakovich died on August 9th, 1975. 

https://www.youtube.com/v/4gGZJWjbgBI

[San Antone]

Josquin des Prez : Passed away in the year 1521, the 27th of August



In an era when music was generally performed a few times before being replaced by something newer, Josquin des Prez was a rarity: a composer who was remembered and honored long after his death. Throughout the sixteenth century, his works were cited in theoretical treatises and extensively quoted in the music of other composers. In 1538, seventeen years after Josquin died, Martin Luther extolled him as "the master of the notes, which must do as he wishes, while other composers must follow what the notes dictate." Even in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Josquin's music was not entirely forgotten, while the nineteenth century saw him acclaimed (alongside Palestrina) as one of the two greatest composers of the Renaissance.

https://www.youtube.com/v/nfVnqU8hyxU

[San Antone]

Morton Feldman : 1987

Morton Feldman was a big, brusque Jewish guy from Woodside, Queens—the son of a manufacturer of children's coats. He worked in the family business until he was forty-four years old, and he later became a professor of music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987, at the age of sixty-one. To almost everyone's surprise but his own, he turned out to be one of the major composers of the twentieth century, a sovereign artist who opened up vast, quiet, agonizingly beautiful worlds of sound.

[jochanaan]

Morton Feldman : 1987

Morton Feldman was a big, brusque Jewish guy from Woodside, Queens—the son of a manufacturer of children's coats. He worked in the family business until he was forty-four years old, and he later became a professor of music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987, at the age of sixty-one. To almost everyone's surprise but his own, he turned out to be one of the major composers of the twentieth century, a sovereign artist who opened up vast, quiet, agonizingly beautiful worlds of sound.

I feel that our world needs more musicians like Feldman, who understand just how much the world needs healing by music.

[San Antone]

Warren Zevon

https://www.youtube.com/v/BwdaZfLatmM

Warren Zevon, who died a fourteen years ago today at the far-too-premature age of 56, was a singer, a songwriter and one of the great under-appreciated talents in modern America. But he could also be, as his friends, family and lovers will quickly tell you, a pain in the ass. He was at times intimidating, self-destructive, aloof. "He had tons of charisma, but when he didn't want people coming up to him, he had charisma in reverse," his ex-wife Crystal Zevon remembers.

[Mandryka]

On this day in 1733 François Couperin, nicknamed Le Grand, died. He's probably the most popular member of an important Parisian dynasty of musicians and organists at St Gervais in the Marais.

[San Antone]

Antoine Busnois : Worthy of the immortal gods, died #OnThisDay 1492



On this day in 1492, Antoine Busnois died.  He was a Netherlandish composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of motets and other sacred music, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay.

[(poco) Sforzando]

There have been some rumors that the great Robert Craft, Stravinsky's assistant for his last years in California, died a few days ago. Does anybody know?

[Brahmsian]

There have been some rumors that the great Robert Craft, Stravinsky's assistant for his last years in California, died a few days ago. Does anybody know?

Wow, I've seen this too (on Wikipedia), that he died on November 10th. 

[jochanaan]

I was wondering about him just the other day--maybe the same day he died.  A great loss, but a rich and full life.  I still remember him leading an exciting performance of some Stravinsky pieces at the Colorado Music Festival in the 1980s or '90s.

[North Star]

Wow, I've seen this too (on Wikipedia), that he died on November 10th. 

It would be good (well, not good exactly) to see it on some actual source as well, though.