Performers who died too young

[mercia]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Farrell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_runnett

[salymap]

Re #14 HS I didn't remember Cantelli beingon that flight. How sad that day was.

[Nick Armstrong]

Re #14 HS I didn't remember Cantelli beingon that flight. How sad that day was.

You're correct in both respects saly

[BBMmk2]

Franz Schubert and the tenor Fritz Wunderrlich

[Barbirollians]

Eda Kersey and Anja Thauer.

[Hornspieler]

Originally Posted by salymap
Re #14 HS I didn't remember Cantelli being on that flight. How sad that day was.

Gosh, you're right! GC died in 1956. I've been telling people porkies all these years.

Thanks Sali and Cali.

HS


Ginette Neveu gave her last concert on 20 October 1949. On 28 October, she was on board an Air France flight from Paris en route to another series of concert engagements when it flew into a mountain after two failed attempts to make a landing at the São Miguel Island airport in the Azores. All 48 people on board the flight died, including Ginette and Jean-Paul Neveu and the French boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. It has been said that Ginette Neveu's body was found still clutching her Stradivarius in her arms.[4] During the return of the bodies to France, Neveu's coffin was confused with that of another victim, Amélie Ringler. The funeral for Ringler had taken place before the error was discovered. On 28 November, Neveu's brother-in-law identified her remains in the coffin disinterred from the graveyard in Bantzenheim.[5]

Édith Piaf, Marcel Cerdan's lover at the time, wrote of Neveu in her autobiography, The Wheel of Fortune: "I would have traveled thousands of miles to hear the great Ginette Neveu

[umslopogaas]

Juan Arriaga (1806-1826) who, according to those who know about these things, showed enormous promise with his early string quartets, published at age seventeen. I would never have heard of him save for the fact I found an old mono Nixa LP of the quartets, in a secondhand shop. Very enjoyable they are too.

[verismissimo]

I suppose of the the performers lost to the world too early, the one whose work I have appreciated most is Dino Ciani (killed in a road accident in Rome, aged 32). His Debussy and Schumann recordings in particular are second to none.

Yes. And this is a wonderful 3 CD set by Ciani: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genius-Dino-...iani+brilliant

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes. And this is a wonderful 3 CD set by Ciani: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genius-Dino-...iani+brilliant

Oft played in these parts

[Lordgeous]

The brilliant David Munrow, sadly by his own hand. 1942 - 1976

[aeolium]

Juan Arriaga (1806-1826) who, according to those who know about these things, showed enormous promise with his early string quartets, published at age seventeen. I would never have heard of him save for the fact I found an old mono Nixa LP of the quartets, in a secondhand shop. Very enjoyable they are too.

Yes, indeed - very accomplished for one so young, and they compare well with the equivalent youthful quartet works of Mozart and Schubert imo. They are conservative in style, harking back to the classical period, but perhaps that isn't surprising for one making his first essays in the genre (and perhaps Arriaga had not come across the middle or later quartets of Beethoven). 1826 was a bad year for composers cut off too young - Weber also died that year not having reached 40.

Returning to performers rather than composers, I thought István Kertész's death in a swimming accident in 1973 was a sad loss as he had much still to give.

Edit: the Guarneri Quartet's recording of the 3 Arriaga quartets is very good, originally on Philips and I think re-issued by Newton Classics.

[salymap]

The brilliant David Munrow, sadly by his own hand. 1942 - 1976

Yes, I had a friend who knew David Munrow and friend was deeply shocked. Apparently he was depressed by family deaths rather close together.

I remember his broadcasts with pleasure. RIP DM

[Ferretfancy]

Dino Ciani 1941 - 1974 A fine pianist with a wide repertoire. Unfortunately he was killed in a motor bike accident.

His DG recording of the Debussy Preludes is quite wonderful, I have the original LPS, I'm not sure if there is a CD issue

[EdgeleyRob]

So many.

Janis Joplin.
Jimi Hendrix.
Bob Marley.
Otis Redding.
George Gershwin.
Frederic Chopin.

[Richard Tarleton]

Janis Joplin.
Jimi Hendrix.

Two out of many members of the 27 Club