ANNIVERSARIES
Historical moments for celebrating: 100, etc, years after births and deaths, and other important events
(For each year, the older is listed first.)
2026
Ella Adeyevskaya: 100 years after death 1926: Opera.
Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva: 100 years after birth 1926: Russian folk songs.
Narcisa Freixas: 100 years after death 1926: Children's songs.
Guy d'Hardelot: 90 years after death 1936: Songs.
Betsy Jolas: 100 years after birth 1926: Stage, orchestral, choral.
Melinda Kistétényi: 100 years after death 1926: Stage, instrumental, vocal.
Luísa Leonardo: 100 years after death 1926: Incidental theatre music.
Zara Levina: 50 years after death 1976: Orchestral, children's songs.
Hélène de Montgeroult: 110 years after death 1836: Keyboard.
Carmen Petra-Basacopol: 100 years after birth 1926: Theatre, symphonic, chamber, instrumental.
Claire Polin: 100 years after birth 1926: Orchestral, instrumental.
Priaulx Rainier: 40 years after death 1986: Orchestral, chamber, vocal.
Louise Reichardt: 200 years after death 1826: Songs.
Elsa Respighi: 30 years after death 1996: Opera, vocal.
Marga Richter: 100 years after birth 1926: Orchestral, chamber.
Esther Scliar: 100 years after birth: Instrumental, choral, vocal.
Patti Stair: 100 years after birth 1926: Orchestral, chamber, instrumental, choral.
2027
Liana Alexandra: 80 years after birth (1947-2011); stage.
Laurie Anderson: 80 years after birth (1947); multimedia.
Anna Amalia: Abbess of Quedlinburg, von Sachsen Weimar (1723-1787), 230 years after death; singspiel: Erwin und Elmire, Goethe; Furore Verlag. Divertimento, in B flat; pf/cl/va/vc: Amadeus Music BP769.
Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia; (1739-1807); 220 years after death 1807; Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar.
Vera Baeva, (1930-2017); 10 years after death: 2017; orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal; Bulgarian Union of Composers.
Amy Beach, (1867-1944) 160 years after birth, 1867; works list.
Janet Beat, 90 years after birth, 1937; British Music Collection.
Luise Adolpha le Beau (1850-1927): 100 years after death; opera, choral, chamber, piano.
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837) 290 years after death; 144 Roamnces on IMSLP.
Louise Bertin (1805-1877): 150 years after death 1877; opera La Esmeralda, with Victor Hugo.
Leopoldine Blahetka (1810-1877): 150 years after death; opera, chamber, vocal.
Francesca Caccini (1587-1641): 540 years after birth; highest paid musician at the Medici court; first woman composer of opera.
Laura Sedgwick Collins (1859-1927): 100 years after death; vocal, incidental music.
Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1877-1971): 150 years after birth; stage, choral instrumental.
Emma Lou Diemer (1927-2024): 100 years after birth; vocal, choral, church. Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Hildegard.com.
Madeleine Dring (1923-1977): 50 years after death; stage, songs, piano. Weinberger.
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805-1847): 280 years after death; lieder, choral, instrumental. Furore Verlag.
Elaine Hugh-Jones (1927-2021): 100 years after birth; songs, chamber music, piano. Caradoc Press.
Alma Mahler-Werfel (1897-1964): 230 years after birth; fin-de-siècle songs. Furore Verlag.
Camille van Lunen (b1957): A Shakespearian Cycle of Scenic Songs from the Tempest; Furore Verlag.
Florence Price (1887-1953): 240 years after birth; first prize Wanamaker Foundation Awards for Symphony in E minor; African-American. Rae Linda Brown The Heart of an American; 2020; University of Illinois Press; Amazon.
Cesarine Ricci de Tingoli (1573-1597): 630 years after death; 20 madrigals. Info from Dr Christine Fischer christine.fischer@univie.ac.at.
Sulpitia Sessi Cesis (1577-1619): Nun; Motets; A Cappella Artemisia; Hildegard.com.
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677): Venice; singer; published madrigals 1644 and 1644; musicologist Beth Glixon, University of Kentucky; Carl Fischer.
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