Significant classical music anniversaries in 2019
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This page lists significant anniversaries for the year 2019, taken from Classical Music Daily's database of approximately 6000 entries, with contemporary (living) musicians shown first. Use the links above and below to future years to find out whose major anniversaries could be celebrated in the future, or to plan concerts, festivals and other events.
Ketil Hvoslef (born 1939) (80th birthday in 2019)
Andrew Carter (born 1939) (80th birthday in 2019)
Jean Belmont Ford (born 1939) (80th birthday in 2019)
Christian Blackshaw (born 1949) (70th birthday in 2019)
Javier Busto (born 1949) (70th birthday in 2019)
Ann Murray (born 1949) (70th birthday in 2019)
Kalevi Aho (born 1949) (70th birthday in 2019)
Willem Jeths (born 1959) (60th birthday in 2019)
Thomas Quasthoff (born 1959) (60th birthday in 2019)
Jonathan Dove (born 1959) (60th birthday in 2019)
Christian Thielemann (born 1959) (60th birthday in 2019)
James MacMillan (born 1959) (60th birthday in 2019)
Marina Minkin (born 1959) (60th birthday in 2019)
Enkelejda Shkosa (born 1969) (50th birthday in 2019)
Hélène Grimaud (born 1969) (50th birthday in 2019)
Gintas Kraptavičius (born 1969) (50th birthday in 2019)
James Francis Brown (born 1969) (50th birthday in 2019)
Susanna Mälkki (born 1969) (50th birthday in 2019)
Enno Poppe (born 1969) (50th birthday in 2019)
Emily Howard (born 1979) (40th birthday in 2019)
Kazuki Yamada (born 1979) (40th birthday in 2019)
Bomsori Kim (born 1989) (30th birthday in 2019)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) (200 years since birth in 2019)
Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819-1898) (200 years since birth in 2019)
Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) (200 years since birth in 2019)
Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) (200 years since birth in 2019)
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) (200 years since birth in 2019)
Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958) (150 years since birth in 2019)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) (190 years since birth and 150 years since death in 2019)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) (150 years since birth in 2019)
Henry Wood (1869-1944) (150 years since birth in 2019)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) (150 years since death in 2019)
Lisa Otto (1919-2013) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Gideon Klein (1919-1945) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Irmgard Seefried (1919-1988) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Yitzhak Levy (1919-1977) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Tommy Reilly (1919-2000) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Dino Yannopoulos (1919-2003) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Jonathan Sternberg (1919-2018) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Milan Horvat (1919-2014) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) (100 years since death in 2019)
Jacob Avshalomov (1919-2013) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Lisa Della Casa (1919-2012) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Udo Kasemets (1919-2014) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Sven-Erik Bäck (1919-1994) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) (100 years since birth in 2019)
David Willcocks (1919-2015) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Juan Orrego-Salas (1919-2019) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Joseph de Pasquale (1919-2015) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Israel Baker (1919-2011) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Camilla Williams (1919-2012) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Hans Keller (1919-1985) (100 years since birth in 2019)
Adelina Patti (1843-1919) (100 years since death in 2019)
Basil Ramsey (1929-2018) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Francisco Savín (1929-2018) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Teizo Matsumura (1929-2007) (90 years since birth in 2019)
André Previn (1929-2019) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Josef Anton Riedl (1929-2016) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Beverly Sills (1929-2007) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Waldemar Kmentt (1929-2015) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Sigrid Kehl (1929-2024) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Paavo Berglund (1929-2012) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Wanda Wiłkomirska (1929-2018) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Hans Wallat (1929-2014) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Michio Mamiya (1929-2024) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Sylvan Kalib (1929-2025) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Mervyn Burtch (1929-2015) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Charles Hoffer (1929-2017) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (1929-2004) (90 years since birth in 2019)
James Last (1929-2015) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Alun Hoddinott (1929-2008) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929-2017) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Aleksei Maslennikov (1929-2016) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Petr Eben (1929-2007) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Ingrid Haebler (1929-2023) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Bernard Haitink (1929-2021) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Vera Gornostayeva (1929-2015) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929-2016) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Alcides Lanza (1929-2024) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Gerd Zacher (1929-2014) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Vincent La Selva (1929-2017) (90 years since birth in 2019)
Miroslav Švejda (1939-2024) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Henrik Otto Donner (1939-2013) (80 years since birth in 2019)
David Stock (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Lyndsie Holland (1939-2014) (80 years since birth in 2019)
José Antonio Abreu (1939-2018) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Teodor Zgureanu (1939-2024) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Duncan Druce (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Howard Smith (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Rohan de Saram (1939-2024) (80 years since birth in 2019)
María Luisa Ozaita (1939-2017) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Yuli Turovsky (1939-2013) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Wolfgang Ostberg (1939-2011) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Ma Shui-long (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Ruy Mingas (1939-2024) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Kari Løvaas (1939-2025) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Geoffrey Hanson (1939-2020) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Walter Weller (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Eri Klas (1939-2016) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Robert Tear (1939-2011) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Elena Obraztsova (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Trevor Hold (1939-2004) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Louis Andriessen (1939-2021) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Steuart Bedford (1939-2021) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Elisabeth Chojnacka (1939-2017) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Janis Martin (1939-2014) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Marlos Nobre (1939-2024) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Richard Marlow (1939-2013) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Yannis Markopoulos (1939-2023) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Hamish Milne (1939-2020) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Patric Standford (1939-2014) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Vyacheslav Nagovitsin (1939-2023) (80 years since birth in 2019)
John McCabe (1939-2015) (80 years since birth in 2019)
Christopher Rouse (1949-2019) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (1949-2024) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Manuel De Sica (1949-2014) (70 years since birth in 2019)
John York Skinner (1949-2023) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Bruno Ducol (1949-2024) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Daniel Catán (1949-2011) (70 years since birth in 2019)
John Aler (1949-2022) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Ludger Rémy (1949-2017) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Bram Beekman (1949-2016) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Steven Stucky (1949-2016) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Joseph Alfidi (1949-2015) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Malcolm Goldring (1949-2021) (70 years since birth in 2019)
Brian Kellow (1959-2018) (60 years since birth in 2019)
Steve Martland (1959-2013) (60 years since birth in 2019)
Bohumil Kulínský (1959-2018) (60 years since birth in 2019)
Peter Ablinger (1959-2025) (60 years since birth in 2019)
Jerome Hynes (1959-2005) (60 years since birth in 2019)
Kumiko Ida (1969-2007) (50 years since birth in 2019)
Wilhelm Backhaus (1884-1969) (50 years since death in 2019)
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) (110 years since birth and 50 years since death in 2019)
Niklas Eklund (1969-2025) (50 years since birth in 2019)
Joel Hastings (1969-2016) (50 years since birth in 2019)
Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023) (50 years since birth in 2019)
Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969) (50 years since death in 2019)
Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979) (40 years since death in 2019)
Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979) (40 years since death in 2019)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) (40 years since death in 2019)
Nino Rota (1911-1979) (40 years since death in 2019)
Paul Dessau (1894-1979) (40 years since death in 2019)
Alfred Deller (1912-1979) (40 years since death in 2019)
John Ogdon (1937-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Alexandru Ţitruş (1922-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Hibari Misora (1937-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Cláudio Santoro (1919-1989) (100 years since birth and 30 years since death in 2019)
Yasushi Akutagawa (1925-1989) (30 years since death in 2019)
Alfredo Kraus (1927-1999) (20 years since death in 2019)
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) (20 years since death in 2019)
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) (20 years since death in 2019)
Juan Carlos Zorzi (1936-1999) (20 years since death in 2019)
Georg Tintner (1917-1999) (20 years since death in 2019)
Edward Downes (1924-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Charles Camilleri (1931-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Yuri Falik (1936-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Maurice Jarre (1924-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
H C Robbins Landon (1926-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Roy Budden (1913-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Aubrey Bowman (1918-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
George Perle (1915-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
Lukas Foss (1922-2009) (10 years since death in 2019)
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