Upcoming 2025 Composer Anniversaries

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Looks like it's going to be another big year for composer anniversaries: Bartók, Shostakovich, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Boulez, Satie, Varèse...to name a few.

[KevinP]

Rather disproportionately French after the first two.

[Maestro267]

Strauss II is about it otherwise when it comes to major composers. And Bartók's isn't even a major multiple-of-50 anniversary.

[DaveF]

Gibbons, Palestrina.  And Pärt will be 90.

[71 dB]

There should be rules for Composer Anniversaries. Only the years when the composer was born should matter, because do we want to celebrate the composer died? Multiples of 100 years is a no brainer, but how about odd multiples of 50 years? 25 years? In my opinion only multiples of 100 years. That's when it counts! In my opinion, next year should be anniversaries of composers born in 1925, 1825, 1725, 1625, 1525,...

Pierre Boulez
Luciano Berio
Yasushi Akutagawa   
Jurriaan Andriessen           
Louis Barron   
Veniamin Basner           
Robert Beadell   
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt       
Cathy Berberian   
Edith Borroff           
André Boucourechliev           
Tristram Cary           
Charles Chaynes       
Aldo Clementi           
Andrei Eshpai           
Cromwell Everson       
Jindřich Feld   
Eloy Fominaya           
Fernando González Casellas   
Aurelio de la Vega       
Ron Goodwin
Clytus Gottwald       
Manos Hatzidakis           
Svatopluk Havelka           
Bertold Hummel           
Ginette Keller       
Giselher Klebe       
Gerard Kockelmans           
Włodzimierz Kotoński   
Frank Lewin       
Teo Macero   
Kiril Makedonski   
Ivo Malec   
Kirke Mechem       
Miroslav Miletić       
Nguyễn Văn Quỳ   
Julián Orbóns   
Michel Philippot       
Hans-Hubert Schönzeler       
Gunther Schuller   
Vladimir Shainsky       
Hale Smith       
Claudio Spies       
Ernie Stires       
Boris Tchaikovsky       
Mikis Theodorakis
Sulkhan Tsintsadze           
Vladimir Vavilov       
Paul W. Whear   
Johann Straus II
Rafael Antonio Castellanos
Jean-Baptiste Arban
Richard Hol
Johann Rudolf Ahle
Alexandre Gallot
Marco Giuseppe Peranda
Rafael Antonio Castellanos
Domenico Fischietti
Giovanni Battista Gervasio
Antonio Lolli
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Jean de Bonmarché       
Baldassare Donato       
Girolamo Cavazzoni       
Claude Gervaise           
John Blitheman           
Richard Edwardes       
Rodrigo de Ceballos   
Lorenzo da Firenze
Francesco Landini
Heriger of Lobbes

[Maestro267]

It's not about celebrating the composer dying. Like with birth anniversaries, it's about celebrating their work and what they left behind for us to enjoy years, decades, centuries down the line.

And where the hell did you copypaste that list from? You've got Boulez and Berio down twice. Did they born and die the same year or 100 years apart or something?!

[71 dB]

It's not about celebrating the composer dying. Like with birth anniversaries, it's about celebrating their work and what they left behind for us to enjoy years, decades, centuries down the line.

Why not celebrate every day?

And where the hell did you copypaste that list from? You've got Boulez and Berio down twice. Did they born and die the same year or 100 years apart or something?!

Mostly from Wikipedia. It was pain in the as for all the table formatting. Your tone of voice made me feel my contribution wasn't welcome.  I removed the duplications. Thanks for noticing!

[Iota]

Why not celebrate every day?

Haha true, though we sort of do on here I think. But people often like an excuse for a bit of a party too, and anniversaries seem to fit the bill nicely.

[DavidW]

Why not celebrate every day?

Because orchestras program their annual concerts around these anniversaries.

[San Antone]

Bach's 340th birth year will be in 2025.

[DavidW]

Bach's 340th birth year will be in 2025.

I suppose that means in 2035 we will have another round of Bach editions if streaming hasn't ultimately killed the big box by then.

[lordlance]

I suppose that means in 2035 we will have another round of Bach editions if streaming hasn't ultimately killed the big box by then.

Bach 333 was stupid anyway but hey marketing people need to sell stuff. I'm not entirely sure how music production shall sustain itself as people gradually stop buying discs even if vinyl hipsters (younger people that is) cause a resurgence in its sale.

Streaming pays pennies... What's the plan here... 

[DavidW]

Bach 333 was stupid anyway but hey marketing people need to sell stuff. I'm not entirely sure how music production shall sustain itself as people gradually stop buying discs even if vinyl hipsters (younger people that is) cause a resurgence in its sale.

Streaming pays pennies... What's the plan here...

Yeah, I remember at the time I thought book publishers were dinosaurs for fighting so hard against ebooks, keeping the pricing up, and not putting things on Kindle Unlimited (streaming for ebooks). But man, they were brilliant. The music and movie world has been decimated by streaming. And people act like these studios don't want you to own anything... seriously they would KILL to be back in the place where everyone bought DVDs and CDs.

Streaming hurts everyone.