2014 Musical Anniversaries

[Petrushka]

2014 might seem a quiet year after all the Wagner/Verdi/Britten/Lutoslawski birthday bashes left us all bloated. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of centenary first performances either.

What musical anniversaries can we expect in 2014?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

2014 might seem a quiet year after all the Wagner/Verdi/Britten/Lutoslawski birthday bashes left us all bloated. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of centenary first performances either.
What musical anniversaries can we expect in 2014?

Take your pick, Pet (although Panufnik and Magnard are the only names that really stand out for me - Irving Fine, Colin McPhee, Marc Blitzstein, anyone?):

http://www.classical-composers.org/search/year1

Ooh! Just noticed CPE Bach and Robert Fayrfax.

[Alison]

Richard Strauss please

[Petrushka]

Take your pick, Pet (although Panufnik and Magnard are the only names that really stand out for me - Irving Fine, Colin McPhee, Marc Blitzstein, anyone?):

http://www.classical-composers.org/search/year1

Ooh! Just noticed CPE Bach and Robert Fayrfax.

Thanks for that. How could I have forgotten Richard Strauss? Panufnik and Dyson standing out for me. A rendition of the latter's Violin Concerto at the Proms would be most welcome.

Any notable first performances, Ferney? I can only find Sospiri and Give Unto the Lord by Elgar plus the RVW London Symphony.

Just alighted on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914_in_music

[Petrushka]

Richard Strauss please

Shame on me for forgetting this!

[subcontrabass]

Take your pick, Pet (although Panufnik and Magnard are the only names that really stand out for me - Irving Fine, Colin McPhee, Marc Blitzstein, anyone?):

http://www.classical-composers.org/search/year1

Ooh! Just noticed CPE Bach and Robert Fayrfax.

Gluck? Gretchaninov? William Lloyd Webber? Rameau? Charles Burney? Meyerbeer? Stephen Foster?

[Barbirollians]

Splutter - so Gluck 300 years since his birth and Rameau 250 since his death do not stand out ????

I see also Locatelli and Leclair in the 250th death anniversary .

Gluck surely the most notable anniversary this year.

[Petrushka]

Splutter - so Gluck 300 years since his birth and Rameau 250 since his death do not stand out ????

I see also Locatelli and Leclair in the 250th death anniversary .

Gluck surely the most notable anniversary this year.

Sorry, Barbirollians, my ignorance of both Gluck and Rameau is very nearly total. Not usually in the era that makes up the bulk of my listening.

[DublinJimbo]

Richard Strauss is the biggie, of course.

Then, apart from Gluck, C.P.E Bach, Panufnik, Magnard and Blitzstein on the composer front, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kiril Kondrashin, Rafael Kubelik, Paul Tortelier and Boris Christoff all have centenaries in 2014.

[Barbirollians]

As much as I like the music of Richard Strauss I don't in any way regard him as a greater composer than Gluck and Rameau . Certainly Orfeo and Euridice tops any of his operas in my book !

[Petrushka]

Richard Strauss is the biggie, of course.

Then, apart from Gluck, C.P.E Bach, Panufnik, Magnard and Blitzstein on the composer front, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kiril Kondrashin, Rafael Kubelik, Paul Tortelier and Boris Christoff all have centenaries in 2014.

I saw Giulini several times and Kondrashin and Kubelik once each. It's a bit of a shock to see that they would have been 100.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Guy Ropartz, another French composer like Magnard that we hear too little of, some very attractive and beautiful music by him too, and there's also Louis Glass, though I haven't found his music to be particularly interesting. For early music lovers there is Fayrfax and Hassler. A couple of other minor composers Jommelli, Halvorsen & Eugene d'Albert and the Croatian Stjepan Sulek, some people rave about his music, but I've found it weak and very derivative.

[Nick Armstrong]

Britten apart, the various anniversaries of 2014 are a good deal more congenial for me than 2013's...

[teamsaint]

Guy Ropartz, another French composer like Magnard that we hear too little of, some very attractive and beautiful music by him too, and there's also Louis Glass, though I haven't found his music to be particularly interesting. For early music lovers there is Fayrfax and Hassler. A couple of other minor composers Jommelli, Halvorsen & Eugene d'Albert and the Croatian Stjepan Sulek, some people rave about his music, but I've found it weak and very derivative.

Ropartz is very high on my "to do" list. A dedicated thread for the upcoming anniversary year might be in order. His music seems immediately appealing, (although this can be a danger sign of course). A great opportunity for higher exposure for Ropartz and other Bretons.
From what I have heard, much of his music might be suitable for " Breakfast".

Thanks for flagging this anniversary up SC.

[edashtav]

R.Strauss, Rameau & Gluck are my Three Kings for 2014. Think of what they contributed to the history of Opera.