Roll of Honour

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Taggart

Discussion Starter · Jan 1, 2019 (Edited)

The aim of this thread is to collect links to obituaries of people.involved in the classical music world. They can be performers, conductors, composers, teachers, instrument makers - whatever.

One of the problems of posting such links is that sometimes they will be hidden behind paywalls. We subscribe to The Telegraph print edition and get a pass to their main site so don't always notice the problem.

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Rogerx

· #21 · Jul 17, 2019

Irwin Gage

September 4, 1939 - April 12, 2018-, bit late but he deserve a mention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Gage

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Rogerx

· #22 · Jul 26, 2019 (Edited)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anner_Bylsma

Anner Bylsma who died yesterday.

See also:
https://www.talkclassical.com/62512-anner-bylsma-has-died.html#post1676545

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Rogerx

· #23 · Sep 18, 2019

Daniël Wayenberg

(Paris, 11 October 1929 - there, 17 September 2019) was a Dutch pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest Dutch pianists.

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Rogerx

· #24 · Sep 20, 2019

Dina Ugorskaja has paste away, indeed the daughter from Anatol Ugorski

26. August 1973 in Leningrad, Sowjetunion; † 17. September 2019 i

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Ugorskaja

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Art Rock

· #25 · Sep 23, 2019

Christopher Rouse (February 15, 1949 – September 21, 2019), American composer. I picked him as one of my 12 favourite living composer a few months ago. RIP.

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Roger Knox

· #26 · Sep 23, 2019

Art Rock said:
Christopher Rouse (February 15, 1949 - September 21, 2019), American composer. I picked him as one of my 12 favourite living composer a few months ago. RIP.

I remember Christopher Rouse when he came to teach at Eastman School of Music (early 1980's). His orchestral show-stopper The Infernal Machine made a big impression. At Eastman he initiated and taught the first course on rock music.

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RockyIII

· #27 · Sep 23, 2019

János Starker, cellist, born 5 July 1924; died 28 April 2013

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/01/janos-starker

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Rogerx

· #28 · Oct 1, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/obituaries/jessye-norman-dead.html

Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74

See also Jessye Norman has died

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Rogerx

· #29 · Oct 2, 2019

Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli (1935-2019)

The Georgian composer Giya Kancheli has died at the age of 84 in his home city of Tbilisi. One of the most recognised and acclaimed classical voices from his home country, he belonged to a generation of Soviet-born composers who lived through, and were influenced by, the tumultuous dissolution of the USSR and independence of many of its constituent republics.

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Roger Knox

· #30 · Oct 2, 2019

Pulitzer-Prize winning American composer Michael Colgrass died July 2 , 2019. He lived in Toronto from 1974 on. A much-commisioned composer who began as a jazz and classical percussionist. One of his best known orchestral works was "As Quiet As ...", a set of short pieces inspired by a composer-in-the-school visit where he asked the class "Let's be as quiet as ..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/arts/music/michael-colgrass-dead.html

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Rogerx

· #31 · Oct 8, 2019 (Edited)

Marcello Giordani (1963-2019)

The Italian tenor Marcello Giordani, acclaimed in verismo, Verdi and Puccini roles, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 56.

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Rogerx

· #32 · Oct 24, 2019

Rolando Panerai in Memoriam (17.10.1924 - 23.10.2019)

See also:

Roland Panerai RIP

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Rogerx

· #33 · Oct 28, 2019

Raymond Leppard 1927 - 2019

Raymond Leppard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Leppard

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Rogerx

· #34 · Nov 25, 2019

Sir Stephen Cleobury (1948-2019)

The English organist and conductor Stephen Cleobury, who spent nearly four decades as Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, died last night aged 70. A full tribute will follow on Monday.

Born in Bromley in 1948, Cleobury was educated at St John's College Cambridge (where he was organ scholar) and held positions at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral before taking up his role at King's in 1982. Over the next 37 years he made a huge number of recordings with the choir, including Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions, Handel's Coronation Anthems and Messiah, the Fauré, Brahms, Mozart and Duruflé Requiems, and several best-selling recordings based on the choir's iconic Nine Lessons and Carols service.

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Ras

· #35 · Nov 29, 2019

Rogerx said:
The English organist and conductor Stephen Cleobury, who spent nearly four decades as Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, died last night aged 70. A full tribute will follow on Monday.

Born in Bromley in 1948, Cleobury was educated at St John's College Cambridge (where he was organ scholar) and held positions at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral before taking up his role at King's in 1982. Over the next 37 years he made a huge number of recordings with the choir, including Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions, Handel's Coronation Anthems and Messiah, the Fauré, Brahms, Mozart and Duruflé Requiems, and several best-selling recordings based on the choir's iconic Nine Lessons and Carols service.

This appears to be Stephen Cleobury's last recording:

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Rogerx

· #36 · Dec 1, 2019 (Edited)

Mariss Jansons Riga, 14 januari 1943 - Sint-Petersburg, 30 november 2019

Mariss Jansons died last night at his home in St Petersburg.

https://slippedisc.com/2019/12/deep-sadness-mariss-jansons-has-died/

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Rogerx

· #37 · Dec 23, 2019

Abbey Simon (New York, 8 January 1920 - 18 December 2019)

One of my first LP'S ever.

Abbey Simon, an American pianist celebrated for a style that harked back to an earlier, golden age of keyboard prowess, died on Wednesday at his home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Simon

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perempe

· #38 · Dec 23, 2019 (Edited)

Rogerx said:
Marcello Giordani (1963-2019)
The Italian tenor Marcello Giordani, acclaimed in verismo, Verdi and Puccini roles, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 56.

can't believe it. I saw him in Erkel Theatre singing Cavaradossi 3 years ago. his Vittoria was fantastic.

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Rogerx

· #39 · Dec 26, 2019 (Edited)

Dalton Baldwin (December 19, 1931 - December 12, 2019)

Dalton Baldwin (December 19, 1931 - December 12, 2019) was an American collaborative pianist. He made more than 100 recordings and won numerous prizes, working with outstanding singers such as Gérard Souzay, Elly Ameling, Arleen Auger, and Jessye Norman. He visited southern Africa on numerous occasions, accompanying Gérard Souzay three times (in 1958 for the first time) and Elly Ameling twice

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Ras

· #40 · Dec 26, 2019

AP News says that German tenor and conductor Peter Schreier has died. 84 years old.

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