The project has taken care of articles about people who recently died, consistently so since 2019. Some appeared in the related section (RD) on the Main page. Some appeared in the Did you know ...? (DYK) section, before or after.
Deaths, with thanks for what they did in life
[edit]In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, the third the date of the person's birth, the fourth the date of death, the fifth the day the article expansion began, the sixth when it appeared on the Main page among the recent deaths (RD), the eighths interlanguage links (de stands for German, a + notes that there's another language, and ++ that there are even more other languages), and the last column contains notes, such as that the article was new, and a DYK entry with a preceding date.
Recently
[edit]Name | Date of birth | Date of death | Article | RD | {{ill}} | Notes | |
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Christof Nel | 7 Apr 1944 | 6 Aug 2024 | 16 Aug | 19–20 Aug | de++ | 10 Nov 2019 ... that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's opera Kullervo? | |
Celestina Casapietra | 23 Aug 1938 | 10 Aug 2024 | 14 Aug | 14–18 Aug | de++ | 24 May 2019 ... that Celestina Casapietra, an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera, and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s? | |
Kasper König | ![]() |
21 Nov 1943 | 9 Aug 2024 | 15 Aug | 16–19 Aug | de++ | |
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez | ![]() |
17 Sep 1949 | 4 Aug 2024 | 7 Aug | 12–15 Aug | de++ | |
Antônio Meneses | ![]() |
23 Aug 1957 | 3 Aug 2024 | 6 Aug | 6–10 Aug | de++ | |
Jürgen Ahrend | ![]() |
28 Apr 1930 | 1 Aug 2024 | 5 Aug | 6–10 Aug | de++ | |
Wolfgang Rihm | ![]() |
13 Mar 1952 | 27 Jul 2024 | 29 Jul | 30 Jul - 5 Aug | de++ | 29 Jul 2013 ... that the opera Die Hamletmaschine by Wolfgang Rihm has been described as "a total theatre of sound and nonnarrative, ritualistic drama"? 2 Oct 2017 ... that Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos, with a libretto by Rihm using only words by Nietzsche, was first performed at the Salzburg Festival and called premiere of the year? |
Jerzy Artysz | 18 Nov 1928 | 22 Jul 2024 | 25 Jul | 28 Jul - 2 Aug | de+ | plan (new) | |
Eugene Sârbu | ![]() |
6 Sep 1950 | 21 Jul 2024 | 27 Jul | 29 Jul - 2 Aug | ru++ | |
Elena Mauti Nunziata | ![]() |
28 Aug 1946 | 22 Jul 2024 | 23 Jul | 25-27 Jul | it+ | |
April Cantelo | 2 Apr 1928 | 16 Jul 2024 | 22 Jul | 22-26 Jul | |||
Sarah Gibson | ![]() |
21 May 1986 | 14 Jul 2024 | 20 Jul | 22-25 Jul | 8 Aug 2024 ... that Sarah Gibson, who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff, composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro, to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms? | |
Ruth Hesse | 18 Sep 1936 | 13 Jul 2024 | 15 Jul | 18-20 Jul | de++ | 2 Jun 2019 ... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"? | |
Thomas Hoepker | ![]() |
10 Jun 1936 | 10 Jul 2024 | 18 Jul | 18-20 Jul | de++ | |
Marina Kondratyeva | ![]() |
1 Feb 1934 | 8 Jul 2024 | 10 Jul | 15-18 Jul | fr++ | plan |
Liana Isakadze | ![]() |
2 Aug 1946 | 5 Jul 2024 | 8 Jul | 11-15 Jul | de++ | |
Gerhard Klingenberg | ![]() |
11 May 1929 | 18 Jun 2024 | 20 Jun | 23–26 Jun | de++ | 23 Jul 2024... that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe? |
Péter Eötvös | 2 Jan 1944 | 24 Mar 2024 | 24 Mar | 30 Mar – 1 Apr | de++ | 28 Oct 2018 ... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors? |
2006 – 2023
[edit]In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, the third the date of the person's birth, the fourth the date of death, and the last column contains notes, such as that the article was new, and a DYK entry with date. The former more detailed table was archived in 2023 because Wikipedia's style changed.
The table goes initially generally by date of death, 2006 · 2009 · 2011 · 2012 · 2014 · 2015 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023.
Name | born | died | DYK | |
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Michael Robinson | 13 Dec 1924 | 20 Jul 2006 | 20 Dec 2018 ... that Rabbi Michael Robinson and 15 other Reform rabbis were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida? | |
Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg | ![]() |
1 Jan 1915 | 27 Jul 2006 | 26 Jul 2011 ... that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg (pictured) into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival? |
Hans Otto Jung | 17 Sep 1920 | 22 Apr 2009 | 29 Dec 2017 ... that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg, and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival? | |
Bernhard Blume | 8 Sep 1937 | 1 Sep 2011 | 8 Sep 2011 ... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason? (new) | |
Guido Dessauer | 7 Nov 1915 | 13 Jan 2012 | 23 Jan 2012 ... that Guido Dessauer (pictured), a German executive and art collector, registered more than 30 patents in paper technology and started the career of Horst Janssen as a lithographer? (new) | |
Erhard Egidi | 23 Apr 1929 | 8 Sep 2014 | 23 Apr 2013 ... that Erhard Egidi conducted at the Neustädter Kirche both the first performance after more than 300 years of a funeral music by the church's first organist and Bach's Mass in B minor? | |
Maria Radner | 7 May 1981 | 24 Mar 2015 | 11 Apr 2015 ... that the contralto Maria Radner, who died in the Germanwings plane crash, performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder at his villa, Wahnfried? (new) | |
Frank Stähle | 12 Jul 1942 | 10 Dec 2015 | 15 Jan 2016 ... that director Frank Stähle revived the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem for the centenary of the Lutherkirche? (new) | |
Walter Fink | 16 Aug 1930 | 13 Apr 2018 | 16 Aug 2010 ... that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa? | |
Inge Borkh | ![]() |
26 May 1921 | 26 Aug 2018 | |
Fylbecatulous | 29 Oct 2018 | her edit notice: "I contribute here for happiness; as an enchantment against sorrow." | ||
Raymond Arritt | ![]() |
19 Sep 1957 | 14 Nov 2018 | 12 Jan 2019 ... that after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author Raymond Arritt said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now"? |
Sylvia Geszty | ![]() |
28 Feb 1934 | 13 Dec 2018 | 28 Jun 2019 ... that the Hungarian coloratura soprano Sylvia Geszty (pictured) was a member of the Berlin State Opera in East Germany before joining the Stuttgart State Opera in the West? |
Johann Georg Reißmüller | 20 Feb 1932 | 10 Dec 2018 | 17 Jan 2019 ... that the journalist Johann Georg Reißmüller, a co-publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is credited with playing an important part in Germany's recognition of Croatia and Slovenia? (new) | |
F. W. Bernstein | ![]() |
4 Mar 1938 | 20 Dec 2018 | 25 Jan 2019 ... that the poet, cartoonist, and satirist F. W. Bernstein (pictured) was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time? |
Carlos Feller | 30 Jul 1923 | 21 Dec 2018 | 3 Feb 2019 ... that bass singer Carlos Feller made his debut at the Teatro Colón in 1946, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1988 in his signature role of Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte? | |
Amos Oz | ![]() |
4 May 1939 | 28 Dec 2018 | |
Theo Adam | 1 Aug 1926 | 10 Jan 2019 | ||
Wilma Lipp | 26 Apr 1925 | 26 Jan 2019 | ||
Jean Guillou | 18 Apr 1930 | 26 Jan 2019 | ||
Leonie Ossowski | 15 Aug 1925 | 4 Feb 2019 | ||
Tomi Ungerer | 28 Nov 1931 | 8 Feb 2019 | ||
Hans Stadlmair | 3 May 1929 | 13 Feb 2019 | 12 Jul 2011 ... that Hans Stadlmair, conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer's Fin al punto, of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"? | |
Bruno Ganz | ![]() |
22 Mar 1941 | 16 Feb 2019 | |
Jörg Streli | 26 Mar 1940 | 13 Feb 2019 | 23 Feb 2019 ... that architect Jörg Streli and his two colleagues designed the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle (pictured) in Tyrol, which rises like a tower on a circular floor? (new) | |
Ekkehard Wlaschiha | 28 May 1938 | 20 Feb 2019 | ||
Hilde Zadek | ![]() |
15 Dec 1917 | 21 Feb 2019 | |
Margaret Scott | 26 Apr 1922 | 24 Feb 2019 | ||
Lothar Zenetti | 6 Feb 1926 | 24 Feb 2019 | 15 Jul 2016 ... that songs by Lothar Zenetti appear in current Protestant and Catholic hymnals, and are performed by singer-songwriters such as Konstantin Wecker? new: Das Weizenkorn muss sterben | |
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde | 19 Sep 1930 | 25 Feb 2019 | ||
Werner Schneyder | ![]() |
25 Jan 1937 | 2 Mar 2019 | 8 Jun 2019 .. that Werner Schneyder performed political kabarett programs with Dieter Hildebrandt and provided television commentary on boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics? |
Klaus Kinkel | 17 Dec 1936 | 4 Mar 2019 | ||
Jacques Loussier | ![]() |
26 Oct 1934 | 5 Mar 2019 | |
Michael Gielen | ![]() |
20 Jul 1927 | 8 Mar 2019 | new: Ein Traumspiel |
Wolfgang Meyer | 13 Aug 1954 | 17 Mar 2019 | 13 May 2019 ... that Wolfgang Meyer, who recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a historical basset clarinet, played his last concert with jazz saxophonist Peter Lehel? | |
Friedrich Achleitner | ![]() |
23 May 1930 | 27 Mar 2019 | 26 Apr 2019 ... that Friedrich Achleitner, a concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described? |
Heinz Winbeck | 11 Feb 1946 | 26 Mar 2019 | 11 Sep 2011 ... that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the premiere of the Fifth Symphony Now and in the hour of death by Heinz Winbeck, which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony? | |
Hans Günter Nöcker | 22 Jan 1927 | 20 Mar 2019 | 4 May 2019 ... that the bass-baritone Hans Günter Nöcker appeared in several world premieres of operas in Berlin, Schwetzingen, and Munich, where he created a stirring portrayal of Gloucester in Reimann's Lear? (new) | |
Ruth-Margret Pütz | 26 Feb 1930 | 1 Apr 2019 | 11 Jun 2019 ... that Ruth-Margret Pütz was considered one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s? (new) | |
Werner Bardenhewer | ![]() |
30 Jan 1929 | 10 Apr 2019 | 30 Jan 2020 ... that a clinic in Mopti, Mali, is named after Werner Bardenhewer, born 90 years ago today, who was for decades priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and then founded a charity group? new: Christus, der uns selig macht |
Jörg Demus | 2 Dec 1928 | 16 Apr 2019 | ||
Hannelore Elsner | ![]() |
26 Jul 1942 | 21 Apr 2019 | 25 May 2019 ... that Hannelore Elsner, who first appeared in film in 1959, received international attention for her role in No Place to Go at the Cannes Festival in 2000? |
Heather Harper | 8 May 1930 | 22 Apr 2019 | ||
Ellen Schwiers | ![]() |
11 Jun 1930 | 26 Apr 2019 | 19 Jun 2019 ... that Ellen Schwiers, who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival and in a film in 1961, founded a touring theatre company with her husband and daughter? |
Sylvia Bretschneider | 14 Nov 1960 | 28 Apr 2019 | ||
Joseph Ward | 22 May 1932 | 27 Apr 2019 | ||
Deborah Cook | 6 Jul 1938 | 22 Apr 2019 | ||
Georg Katzer | ![]() |
10 Jan 1935 | 7 May 2019 | 19 Aug 2019 ... that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification? (new) |
Jens Beutel | 12 Jul 1946 | 8 May 2019 | ||
Anatol Herzfeld | 21 Jan 1931 | 10 May 2019 | ||
Unita Blackwell | ![]() |
10 Apr 1919 | 13 May 2019 | 26 April 2017 ... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell (pictured) was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi? (GA by Coffee) |
Wibke Bruhns | ![]() |
8 Sep 1938 | 20 Jun 2019 | 10 Aug 2019 ... that Wibke Bruhns (pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis? |
Iván Erőd | ![]() |
2 Jan 1936 | 27 Jun 2019 | 17 Aug 2011 ... that Iván Erőd composed a Sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an opera titled Silk Worms, and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs? |
Louis Thiry | 15 Feb 1935 | 29 Jul 2019 | ||
Eberhard Havekost | 1967 | 5 Jul 2019 | ||
Werner Müller | ![]() |
15 Feb 1935 | 1 Jun 1946 | 3 Sep 2019 ... that Werner Müller managed a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as CEO of major energy companies? |
Johnny Clegg | 7 Jun 1953 | 16 Jul 2019 | ||
Peter Hamm | ![]() |
27 Feb 1937 | 22 Jul 2019 | 4 Sep 2019 ... that Peter Hamm, a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14? (new) |
Brigitte Kronauer | ![]() |
29 Dec 1940 | 22 Jul 2019 | 17 Sep 2019 ... that writer Brigitte Kronauer (pictured), who won the Georg Büchner Prize, the Jean Paul Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize, was described as both "a master of spite" and having "great kindness"? |
Siegfried Strohbach | ![]() |
27 Nov 1929 | 11 Jul 2019 | 2 Dec 2011 ... that Siegfried Strohbach composed a program of music for Advent for the Knabenchor Hannover, performed today at the Marktkirche? |
Peter Lindbergh | ![]() |
23 Nov 1944 | 3 Sep 2019 | |
Irina Bogacheva | ![]() |
2 Mar 1939 | 20 Sep 2019 | |
Sigmund Jähn | ![]() |
13 Feb 1937 | 21 Sep 2019 | |
Lutz-Michael Harder | 4 Sep 1942 | 24 Aug 2019 | ||
Jessye Norman![]() |
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15 Sep 1945 | 30 Sep 2019 | 29 Mar 2020 ... that soprano Jessye Norman, whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial? |
Hevrin Khalaf | ![]() |
15 Nov 1984 | 12 Oct 2019 | 19 Nov 2019 ... that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria? |
Erhard Eppler | ![]() |
9 Dec 1926 | 19 Oct 2019 | |
Márta Kurtág | ![]() |
1 Oct 1927 | 17 Oct 2019 | 3 Nov 2019 ... that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok (Games)? |
Raymond Leppard | 11 Aug 1927 | 22 Oct 2019 | ||
Hans Zender | 22 Nov 1936 | 22 Oct 2019 | ||
Rolando Panerai | ![]() |
17 Oct 1924 | 22 Oct 2019 | |
Hans-Peter Uhl | 5 Aug 1944 | 27 Oct 2019 | ||
Gert Boyle | 6 Feb 1924 | 3 Nov 2019 | ||
Stephen Cleobury | ![]() |
31 Dec 1948 | 22 Nov 2019 | |
Colin Mawby | ![]() |
9 May 1936 | 24 Nov 2019 | 9 Dec 2011 ... that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"? |
Mariss Jansons | 14 Jan 1943 | 30 Nov 2019 | ||
Johann Baptist Metz | 5 Aug 1928 | 2 Dec 2019 | ||
Herbert Joos | ![]() |
21 Mar 1940 | 7 Dec 2019 | |
Brian Boulton | ![]() |
9 Dec 2019 | dedicated: Vespro della Beata Vergine for which he collected sources that he shared | |
Klaus Uwe Ludwig | ![]() |
16 Sep 1943 | 20 Dec 2019 | 5 May 2016 ... that Klaus Uwe Ludwig played the complete organ works by Bach and Reger at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden? |
Peter Schreier | 29 Jul 1935 | 25 Dec 2019 | ||
Manfred Stolpe | 16 May 1936 | 30 Dec 2019 | ||
Harry Kupfer | 12 Aug 1935 | 30 Dec 2019 | 3 Oct 2018 ... that Harry Kupfer, the stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin for decades, presented Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival as a psychological drama? | |
Wolfgang Dauner | 30 Dec 1935 | 10 Jan 2020 | ||
Franz Mazura | ![]() |
22 Apr 1924 | 23 Jan 2020 | |
Gudrun Pausewang | ![]() |
3 Mar 1928 | 23 Jan 2020 | 11 Feb 2020 ... that Die Wolke (The Cloud), a young-adult novel by Gudrun Pausewang written after the Chernobyl disaster, was translated into English as Fall-Out? |
Herbert Baumann | 31 Jul 1925 | 29 Jan 2020 | 16 Feb 2020 ... that in his ballet Alice im Wunderland, composer Herbert Baumann made the story's author a character? | |
Wolfgang J. Fuchs | ![]() |
16 Sep 1945 | 20 Jan 2020 | 7 Feb 2020 ... that Wolfgang J. Fuchs, an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer? |
Peter Serkin | 24 Jun 1942 | 1 Feb 2020 | ||
Volker David Kirchner | 25 Jul 1935 | 4 Feb 2020 | 25 Jun 2018 ... that Volker David Kirchner, who composed operas for the Wiesbaden State Theatre and a mass for the Mainz Cathedral, was the first recipient of the Rheingau Musikpreis? | |
Nello Santi | 22 Sep 1931 | 6 Feb 2020 | ||
Lucille Eichengreen | 1 Feb 1925 | 7 Feb 2020 | ||
Volker Spengler | 16 Feb 1939 | 8 Feb 2020 | ||
Mirella Freni | ![]() |
27 Feb 1939 | 9 Feb 2020 | |
Joseph Vilsmaier | 24 Jan 1939 | 11 Feb 2020 | ||
Ror Wolf | ![]() |
29 Jun 1932 | 17 Feb 2020 | |
Sonja Ziemann | ![]() |
8 Feb 1926 | 17 Feb 2020 | |
Peter Dreher | ![]() |
26 Aug 1932 | 20 Feb 2020 | |
Lisel Mueller | 8 Feb 1924 | 21 Feb 2020 | ||
Burkhard Driest | 29 Jul 1935 | 27 Feb 2020 | 13 Mar 2020 ... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences? | |
Carsten Bresch | 5 Sep 1921 | 1 Mar 2020 | ||
Freimut Duve | ![]() |
26 Nov 1936 | 3 Mar 2020 | 21 Apr 2020 ... that Freimut Duve became the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media after serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1998? |
Elinor Ross | ![]() |
1 Aug 1926 | 6 Mar 2020 | |
Burkhard Hirsch | ![]() |
29 May 1930 | 11 Mar 2020 | |
Charles Wuorinen | ![]() |
9 Jun 1938 | 11 Mar 2020 | 26 Apr 2020 ... that Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an opera by Charles Wuorinen, is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control? (new) |
Giwi Margwelaschwili | ![]() |
14 Sep 1927 | 13 Mar 2020 | |
Willigis Jäger | ![]() |
7 Mar 1925 | 20 Mar 2020 | 11 Apr 2020 ... that Willigis Jäger, a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order? |
Anatoliy Mokrenko | ![]() |
22 Jan 1933 | 24 Mar 2020 | 2 May 2020 ... that Anatoliy Mokrenko, a baritone and future director of the Ukrainian National Opera, performed in a Russian film based on Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor? (new) |
Jennifer Bate | 11 Nov 1944 | 25 Mar 2020 | ||
Naomi Munakata | ![]() |
31 May 1955 | 26 Mar 2020 | 27 Apr 2020 ... that Naomi Munakata, who sang in choir from age seven, was the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013? (new) |
Rolf Huisgen | 13 Jun 1920 | 26 Mar 2020 | ||
Krzysztof Penderecki | ![]() |
23 Nov 1933 | 29 Mar 2020 | 28 Apr 2020 ... that a recording of Credo, composed by Krzysztof Penderecki (pictured) for five soloists, choirs and orchestra for the 1998 Oregon Bach Festival, won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance? (new) |
Thomas Schäfer | ![]() |
22 Feb 1966 | 28 Mar 2020 | new |
Francis Rapp | ![]() |
27 Jun 1926 | 29 Mar 2020 | 25 Apr 2020 ... that the medievalist Francis Rapp (pictured), who taught at three universities in Strasbourg, focused on the history of Alsace? |
Zoltán Peskó | ![]() |
15 Feb 1937 | 31 Mar 2020 | 9 Jun 2020 ... that for the centenary of Stravinsky's death, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works—The Flood, Renard, and Mavra—directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala? |
Reimar Lüst | 25 Mar 1923 | 31 Mar 2020 | ||
Ellis Marsalis Jr. | ![]() |
14 Nov 1934 | 1 Apr 2020 | |
Dmitri Smirnov | ![]() |
2 Nov 1948 | 9 Apr 2020 | 26 May 2020 ... that the Triple Concerto No. 2 was composed by Dmitri Smirnov for the centenary concert of the London Symphony Orchestra, with principal violinist, harpist and double bassist as soloists? (new) |
Kerstin Meyer | ![]() |
3 Apr 1928 | 14 Apr 2020 | |
Ulrich Kienzle | ![]() |
9 May 1936 | 16 Apr 2020 | |
Alexander Vustin | ![]() |
24 Apr 1943 | 19 Apr 2020 | 11 Jun 2020 ... that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, at the centenary of a Moscow theatre? (new) |
Norbert Blüm | ![]() |
21 Jul 1934 | 23 Apr 2020 | |
Alan Abel | ![]() |
6 Dec 1928 | 25 Apr 2020 | 22 Apr 2017 ... that Alan Abel served as a percussionist for the Philadelphia Orchestra for 38 years? |
Hans-Karl von Kupsch | 7 Mar 1937 | 26 Apr 2020 | 8 Apr 2022 ... that Hans-Karl von Kupsch, who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife? (new) | |
Martin Lovett | ![]() |
3 Mar 1927 | 29 Apr 2020 | |
Norbert Balatsch | 10 Mar 1928 | 6 May 2020 | ||
Roy Horn | 3 Oct 1944 | 8 May 2020 | ||
Gabriel Bacquier | 17 May 1924 | 13 May 2020 | ||
Ezio Bosso | ![]() |
13 Sep 1971 | 15 May 2020 | |
Renate Krößner | 17 May 1945 | 25 May 2020 | new: Fünf letzte Tage | |
Philipp Harnoncourt | ![]() |
9 Feb 1931 | 25 May 2020 | 30 May 2021 ... that Philipp Harnoncourt (pictured) initiated the restoration of a Gothic chapel with a triangle floorplan, which was reopened on Trinity Sunday? ... that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-Gothic chapel with a star rib vault, was almost demolished to make room for a highway? (new) |
Irm Hermann | ![]() |
4 Oct 1942 | 26 May 2020 | |
Mady Mesplé | ![]() |
7 Mar 1931 | 30 May 2020 | |
Marcello Abbado | ![]() |
7 Oct 1928 | 4 Jun 2020 | |
Anna Blume | 21 Apr 1936 | 18 Jun 2020 | 8 Sep 2011 ... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason? | |
Jürgen Holtz | 10 Aug 1932 | 21 Jun 2020 | 21 Jul 2020 ... that Jürgen Holtz played the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei with the Berliner Ensemble at age 86, sometimes appearing naked? | |
Nicolas Joel | 6 Feb 1953 | 19 Jun 2020 | 16 Aug 2019 ... that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary? | |
Ludwig Finscher | 14 Mar 1930 | 30 Jun 2020 | 24 Jul 2020 ... that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social and historic context? | |
Nikolai Kapustin | 22 Nov 1937 | 2 Jul 2020 | ||
Claude Mercier-Ythier | ![]() |
1931 | 3 Jul 2020 | 27 Jul 2020 ... that harpsichords built and restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier were played in thousands of concerts and hundreds of recordings? (new) |
Ennio Morricone | ![]() |
10 Nov 1928 | 6 Jul 2020 | |
Gabriella Tucci | 4 Aug 1929 | 11 Jul 2020 | ||
Eleanor Sokoloff | ![]() |
16 Jun 1914 | 12 Jul 2020 | |
Zizi Jeanmaire | ![]() |
29 Apr 1924 | 17 Jul 2020 | |
Bernard Ładysz | ![]() |
24 Jul 1922 | 25 Jul 2020 | 21 Aug 2020 ... that Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of music by Krzysztof Penderecki in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas? |
Hans-Jochen Vogel | ![]() |
3 Feb 1926 | 26 Jul 2020 | |
Herbert Leuninger | ![]() |
8 Sep 1932 | 28 Jul 2020 | 31 Aug 2020 ... that Catholic priest Herbert Leuninger, a co-founder and speaker of Pro Asyl, is remembered as a "loudspeaker" for the interests of refugees? (new) |
Maria Friesenhausen | 23 Mar 1932 | 31 Jul 2020 | 10 Jul 2017 ... that Maria Friesenhausen sang soprano solo with the NDR Chor in the 1950s and trained students of the University of Dortmund for an opera performance in 2001? | |
Leon Fleisher | 23 July 1928 | 2 Aug 2020 | 12 Sep 2020 ... that Klaviermusik mit Orchester, a 1923 piano concerto for the left hand by Paul Hindemith, was first performed in 2004 by Leon Fleisher and the Berlin Philharmonic? | |
Jerome Kohl | 27 Nov 1946 | 4 Aug 2020 | 28 Jan 2021 ... that Jerome Kohl, a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017? ... that In Freundschaft was composed in friendship by Karlheinz Stockhausen as a clarinet solo for Suzanne Stephens, and later adapted to the instruments of other friends? (new) | |
Erich Gruenberg | 12 Oct 1924 | 8 Aug 2020 | ||
Jürgen Schadeberg | 18 Mar 1931 | 29 Aug 2020 | ||
Annette Jahns | 24 Jun 1958 | 11 Sep 2020 | 2 Oct 2020 ... that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker, the role required her to scream as well as to sing? ... that in Bettina, the chamber opera's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode, reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide? (new) | |
Gerhard Weber | 3 Jun 1941 | 24 Sep 2020 | 6 Oct 2020 ... that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf, at age 17 before her international success, to be an ambassador for the Gerry Weber fashion brand he had co-founded? (new) | |
Herbert Feuerstein | ![]() |
15 Jun 1937 | 6 Oct 2020 | |
Folker Bohnet | 7 Aug 1937 | 6 Oct 2020 | 4 November 2020 ... that Folker Bohnet, who acted in Bernhard Wicki's 1959 film Die Brücke while still studying, toured for 13 years with a comedy play that he co-authored? (new) | |
Jon Gibson | 11 Mar 1940 | 12 Oct 2020 | ||
Rosanna Carteri | ![]() |
14 Dec 1930 | 25 Oct 2020 | |
Alexander Vedernikov | 11 Jan 1964 | 29 Oct 2020 | ||
Faustas Latėnas | ![]() |
16 May 1956 | 3 Nov 2020 | 16 November 2020 ... that Faustas Latėnas, who was vice-minister of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, composed incidental music, film scores and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"? (new) |
Gernot Roll | ![]() |
9 Apr 1939 | 12 Nov 2020 | 6 January 2021 ... that Gernot Roll, considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel? |
Robert Hammerstiel | ![]() |
18 Feb 1933 | 23 Nov 2020 | 21 Dec 2020 ... that Robert Hammerstiel (pictured) wrapped the Ringturm tower in Vienna in a painting showing stations of human life in simplified figures in bright colours? |
Hella Brock | 3 Oct 1919 | 30 Nov 2020 | ||
Jutta Lampe | ![]() |
13 Dec 1937 | 3 Dec 2020 | 8 January 2021 ... that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando? |
Gotthilf Fischer | ![]() |
11 Feb 1928 | 11 Dec 2020 | 25 Jan 2021 ... that Gotthilf Fischer (pictured) founded the Fischer-Chöre, who appeared with 1,500 singers at the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup? |
Fanny Waterman | ![]() |
22 Mar 1920 | 20 Dec 2020 | |
Osian Ellis | ![]() |
8 Feb 1928 | 5 Jan 2021 | |
Biserka Cvejić | ![]() |
5 Nov 1923 | 8 Jan 2021 | 18 Feb 2021 ... that Biserka Cvejić (pictured), a mezzo-soprano from Serbia who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1960, as Amneris in Verdi's Aida? |
Yoninah | 22 Mar 2020 | WP:QAI/Psalms | ||
Arik Brauer | ![]() |
4 Jan 1929 | 24 Jan 2021 | 17 Feb 2021 ... that Universalkünstler Arik Brauer (pictured) created paintings in Fantastic Realism, songs in Austropop, stage sets for the Paris Opera, and house facades in Austria and Israel? |
Wilhelm Knabe | ![]() |
22 Mar 1920 | 8 Oct 2023 | 26 Jan 2021 ... that Wilhelm Knabe (pictured), a co-founder of the Greens in Germany and a "green" mayor of Mülheim, participated in Fridays For Future with the slogan "Opa For Future"? |
Libuše Domanínská | 4 July 1924 | 2 Feb 2021 | 25 Feb 2021 ... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of the Prague National Theatre, performed in all operas by Janáček, and a recording as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country? | |
Vera Wülfing-Leckie | 1954 | 8 Feb 2021 | 2 Mar 2021 ... that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English? (new) | |
Andréa Guiot | 11 Jan 1922 | 15 Feb 2021 | 8 Mar 2021 ... that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role? (new) | |
Wolfgang Boettcher | 30 Jan 1935 | 24 Feb 2021 | ||
Helmut Winschermann | 22 Mar 1922 | 4 Mar 2021 | ||
Dmitri Bashkirov | 1 Nov 1931 | 7 Mar 2021 | ||
Yevgeny Nesterenko | 8 Jan 1938 | 20 Mar 2021 | ||
Taryn Fiebig | ![]() |
1 Feb 1972 | 20 Mar 2021 | |
Uta Ranke-Heinemann | ![]() |
2 Oct 1927 | 25 Mar 2021 | |
Veronica Dunne | 2 Aug 1927 | 5 Apr 2021 | ||
Hans Küng | 19 Mar 1928 | 6 Apr 2021 | ||
Grischa Huber | ![]() |
18 Sep 1944 | 6 Apr 2021 | 6 May 2021 ... that Grischa Huber (pictured) played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"? (new) |
Thomas Fritsch | 16 Jan 1944 | 21 Apr 2021 | 24 May 2021 ... that Thomas Fritsch, a film actor who charmed the teens of the 1960s, was the German voice of Russell Crowe, Scar and Diego, a Smilodon? | |
Milva | ![]() |
17 Jul 1939 | 24 Apr 2021 | |
Christa Ludwig | ![]() |
16 Mar 1928 | 24 Apr 2021 | |
Anne Buydens | ![]() |
23 Apr 1919 | 29 Apr 2021 | |
Anthony Payne | 2 Aug 1936 | 30 Apr 2021 | ||
Karl-Günther von Hase | ![]() |
15 Sep 1917 | 9 May 2021 | 12 Jun 2021 ... that Karl-Günther von Hase (pictured), who had served as spokesman of the German government under three chancellors, became director of the ZDF broadcaster? |
Raimund Hoghe | 12 May 1949 | 14 May 2021 | 9 Jun 2021 ... that Raimund Hoghe, who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel (The Hunchback)? (new) | |
Carla Fracci | 20 Aug 1936 | 27 May 2021 | ||
Robert Rutman | 15 May 1931 | 2 Jun 2021 | 12 Dec 2016 ... that Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument? | |
Friederike Mayröcker | ![]() |
20 Dec 1924 | 4 Jun 2021 | |
Gottfried Böhm | ![]() |
23 Jan 1920 | 9 Jun 2021 | 10 Feb 2020 ... that Maria, Königin des Friedens (pictured), a Brutalist pilgrimage church in Neviges, Germany, has become architect Gottfried Böhm's signature building? (new) |
Gianna Rolandi | 16 Aug 1952 | 20 Jun 2021 | ||
Louis Andriessen | ![]() |
6 Jun 1939 | 1 Jul 2021 | |
Bill Ramsey | ![]() |
17 Apr 1931 | 2 Jul 2021 | |
Didi Contractor | ![]() |
1929 | 5 Jul 2021 | |
Michael Horovitz | 4 Apr 1935 | 7 Jul 2021 | ||
Esther Béjarano | ![]() |
15 Dec 1924 | 10 Jul 2021 | |
Heribert Beissel | ![]() |
27 Mar 1933 | 11 Jun 2021 | 15 Sep 2021 ... that the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn (pictured), a symphony orchestra founded and conducted by Heribert Beissel, has a tradition of playing a concert series at more than ten major halls of Germany? (new) |
Hans Drewanz | 2 Dec 1929 | 22 Jun 2021 | 17 Sep 2021 ... that when conductor Hans Drewanz, a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt, became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt, he was the youngest GMD in Germany? | |
Jean Kraft | 9 Jan 1927 | 15 Jul 2021 | ||
Alfred Biolek | ![]() |
10 Jul 1934 | 23 Jul 2021 | 29 Aug 2021 ... that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek (pictured) in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance? (new) |
Herbert Köfer | ![]() |
17 Feb 1921 | 24 Jul 2021 | |
Ben Wagin | 25 Mar 1930 | 28 Jul 2021 | ||
Martin Perscheid | ![]() |
16 Feb 1966 | 31 Jul 2021 | |
Jerzy Matuszkiewicz | ![]() |
10 Apr 1928 | 31 Jul 2021 | |
Kazimierz Kowalski | 30 Jul 1951 | 1 Aug 2021 | 26 Aug 2021 ... that when bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski was general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź, Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor was broadcast worldwide? | |
Karl Heinz Bohrer | 26 Sep 1932 | 4 Aug 2021 | ||
Peter Fleischmann | ![]() |
26 Jul 1937 | 11 Aug 2021 | 14 Sep 2011 ... that Peter Fleischmann directed the cult film The Hamburg Syndrome, that foresaw a similar scenario to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as 1979? |
Kurt Biedenkopf | ![]() |
28 Jan 1930 | 12 Aug 2021 | |
Franz Josef Altenburg | 15 Mar 1941 | 18 Aug 2021 | 9 Sep 2021 ... that the ceramicist Franz Josef Altenburg was honoured with an exhibition of his art at Austria's Kaiservilla where he was born? | |
Gunilla Bergström | 3 Jul 1942 | 25 Aug 2021 | 30 Jan 2010 ... that the Alfie Atkins children's book series by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström has been translated into twenty-nine different languages and sold over eight million copies worldwide? | |
Siegfried Matthus | 13 Apr 1939 | 27 Aug 2021 | ||
Teresa Żylis-Gara | ![]() |
23 Jan 1930 | 28 Aug 2021 | |
Gerhard Erber | 21 Nov 1934 | 4 Sep 2021 | 19 Jul 2020 ... that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain? | |
Amanda Holden | 19 Jan 1948 | 9 Sep 2021 | ||
Jean-Paul Jeannotte | 9 Mar 1926 | 9 Sep 2021 | 25 Sep 2021 ... that Jean-Paul Jeannotte, founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal, performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour? (new) | |
Norman Bailey | 23 Mar 1933 | 15 Sep 2021 | ||
Sylvano Bussotti | 1 Oct 1931 | 19 Sep 2021 | 24 Oct 2021 ... that the title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti, caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance? (new) | |
András Ligeti | 5 Aug 1953 | 19 Sep 2021 | ||
Karan Armstrong | 14 Dec 1941 | 28 Sep 2021 | ||
Eberhard Jüngel | 5 Dec 1934 | 28 Sep 2021 | ||
Carlisle Floyd | ![]() |
11 Jun 1926 | 30 Sep 2021 | |
Eberhard Panitz | ![]() |
16 Apr 1932 | 1 Oct 2021 | 28 Oct 2021 ... that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram, with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden? |
Mordechai Geldman | 16 Apr 1946 | 8 Oct 2021 | ||
Evelyn Richter | 31 Jan 1930 | 10 Oct 2021 | ||
Luis de Pablo | ![]() |
28 Jan 1930 | 10 Oct 2021 | |
Gerd Ruge | ![]() |
9 Aug 1928 | 15 Oct 2021 | 15 Nov 2021 ... that German reporter Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped Russian author Boris Pasternak financially? |
Edita Gruberová | ![]() |
23 Dec 1946 | 18 Oct 2021 | |
Hans Haselböck | ![]() |
26 Jul 1928 | 20 Oct 2021 | 4 Nov 2021 ... that Hans Haselböck (pictured), later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949? |
Bernard Haitink | ![]() |
4 Mar 1929 | 21 Oct 2021 | |
Udo Zimmermann | ![]() |
6 Oct 1943 | 22 Oct 2021 | 19 Nov 2018 ... that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose, one while he was a student? |
Alfredo Diez Nieto | 25 Oct 1918 | 25 Oct 2021 | ||
Nelson Freire | 18 Oct 1944 | 31 Oct 2021 | ||
Doğan Akhanlı | ![]() |
18 Mar 1957 | 31 Oct 2021 | |
Aga Mikolaj | 7 Mar 1971 | 11 Nov 2021 | 18 Apr 2021 ... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"? | |
Hermann Bausinger | ![]() |
17 Sep 1926 | 24 Nov 2021 | 20 Dec 2021 ... that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday? |
Dieter B. Herrmann | ![]() |
3 Jan 1939 | 25 Nov 2021 | |
Rudolf Pohl | 5 Nov 1924 | 1 Dec 2021 | 1 Jan 2022 ... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s? (new) | |
Christine Haidegger | 27 Feb 1942 | 5 Dec 2021 | 15 Jan 2022 ... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger (pictured) details her childhood in post–World War II Austria? | |
Günther Rühle | 3 Jun 1924 | 10 Dec 2021 | 20 Dec 2021 ... that Günther Rühle wrote two books covering the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966? (new) | |
Stefan Keil | 20 Mar 1958 | 16 Dec 2021 | 7 Jan 2022 ... that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas? (new) | |
George Alexander Albrecht | 15 Feb 1935 | 21 Dec 2021 | 9 Jan 2022 ... that in Die Schneekönigin, an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals? ... that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work? (new) | |
Gwendolyn Killebrew | 26 Aug 1941 | 24 Dec 2021 | 31 Mar 2014 ... that soon after starting her career at the Met, Gwendolyn Killebrew appeared as a valkyrie in Wagner's Die Walküre in a live broadcast alongside Birgit Nilsson in the title role? | |
Herbert Achternbusch | ![]() |
23 Nov 1938 | 10 Jan 2022 | |
Erwin Eisch | ![]() |
18 Apr 1927 | 25 Jan 2022 | |
Heinz Werner Zimmermann | 11 Aug 1930 | 25 Jan 2022 | ||
Georg Christoph Biller | ![]() |
20 Sep 1955 | 27 Jan 2022 | 18 Apr 2010 ... that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position? (new) ... that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor, Bach's choir dating back to 1212? |
Hans Neuenfels | ![]() |
31 May 1941 | 6 Feb 2022 | |
George Crumb | ![]() |
24 Oct 1924 | 6 Feb 2022 | |
Franz Grave | 25 Nov 1932 | 19 Feb 2022 | 17 Mar 2022... that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America? (new) | |
Peter Merseburger | ![]() |
9 May 1928 | 19 Feb 2022 | 31 Mar 2022 ... that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer (pictured) on an abortion was cancelled by authorities? ... that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt? (new) |
Christian Herwartz | ![]() |
16 Apr 1943 | 20 Feb 2022 | 13 Apr 2022 ... that Christian Herwartz, a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held "street exercises" and peace prayers? (new) |
Antonietta Stella | 15 Mar 1929 | 23 Feb 2022 | ||
Eleonore Schönborn | 14 Apr 1920 | 25 Feb 2022 | 28 Mar 2022 ... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement? | |
Yvonne Ciannella | 25 Jul 1926 | 1 Mar 2022 | 6 Feb 2016 ... that Yvonne Ciannella, who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica, recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"? | |
Inge Deutschkron | 23 Aug 1923 | 9 Mar 2022 | ||
Maks Levin | ![]() |
7 Jul 1981 | 13 Mar 2022 | 25 Apr 2022 ... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel? (new) |
Oksana Shvets | 10 Feb 1955 | 17 Mar 2022 | 15 Apr 2022 ... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors? (new) | |
Artem Datsyshyn | 26 Jan 1979 | 17 Mar 2022 | 16 Apr 2022 ... that Artem Datsyshyn, the National Opera of Ukraine's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère, is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"? (new) | |
Michail Jurowski | 25 Dec 1945 | 19 Mar 2022 | ||
Serhiy Kot | 22 Jun 1958 | 28 Mar 2022 | 16 May 2022 ... that Serhiy Kot was editor for Ukrainian Question, a book collection of articles about the status of Ukraine in the 1930s? (new) | |
Birgit Nordin | 22 Feb 1934 | 7 Apr 2022 | ||
Hellmuth Matiasek | 15 May 1931 | 7 Apr 2022 | ||
Philippe Boesmans | 17 May 1936 | 10 Apr 2022 | ||
Larysa Khorolets | 25 Aug 1948 | 12 Apr 2022 | ||
Radu Lupu | ![]() |
30 Nov 1945 | 17 Apr 2022 | |
Harrison Birtwistle | ![]() |
15 Jul 1934 | 17 Apr 2022 | |
Renate Holm | 10 Aug 1931 | 21 Apr 2022 | ||
Ursula Lehr | ![]() |
5 Jun 1930 | 25 Apr 2022 | |
Qin Yi | ![]() |
4 Feb 1922 | 9 May 2022 | 31 Mar 2015... that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China? |
William Bennett | 7 Feb 1936 | 11 May 2022 | ||
Teresa Berganza | ![]() |
16 Mar 1933 | 13 May 2022 | |
Klara Höfels | ![]() |
5 Apr 1945 | 15 May 2022 | 14 Jun 2022 ... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin? (new) |
Thomas Resetarits | 25 Nov 1939 | 18 May 2022 | 22 Jun 2022 ... that Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits created Stations of the Cross (example sculpture pictured)? (new) | |
Horst Sachtleben | 24 Sep 1930 | 22 May 2022 | ||
Victor von Halem | 26 Mar 1940 | 28 May 2022 | ||
Friedrich Christian Delius | ![]() |
13 Feb 1943 | 30 May 2022 | |
Kai Bumann | 16 Aug 1961 | 2 Jun 2022 | 14 Sep 2022 ... that the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969 for members from all four Swiss language regions, and meets twice a year for rehearsals and a tour program? (new) | |
Erasmus Schöfer | ![]() |
4 Jun 1931 | 7 Jun 2022 | 24 Jul 2022 ... that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels? (news) |
Christof May | 8 Apr 1973 | 8 Jun 2022 | (new) | |
Ivonne Haza | 15 Feb 1935 | 16 Jun 2022 | ||
Hans-Dieter Bader | 16 Feb 1938 | 18 Jun 2022 | 3 May 2016 ... that Hans-Dieter Bader performed the title role of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly, recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover, "as written", while Plácido Domingo had to cut and change the part? | |
Wilma Schmidt | 27 Jun 1926 | 18 Jun 2022 | 20 Jul 2022 ... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic repertoire, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier? (new) | |
Kurt Equiluz | 13 Jun 1929 | 20 Jun 2022 | 10 Apr 2010 ... that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna? | |
Ernst Jacobi | 11 Jul 1933 | 23 Jun 2022 | 19 Jul 2022 ... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor? | |
Katja Husen | ![]() |
12 Jun 1976 | 28 Jun 2022 | 1 Aug 2022 ... that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth, a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg? (new) |
Richard Taruskin | ![]() |
2 Apr 1945 | 1 Jul 2022 | |
Peter Brook | 21 Mar 1925 | 2 Jul 2022 | ||
Alfred Koerppen | ![]() |
16 Dec 1926 | 5 Jul 2022 | 6 Sep 2021 ... that Alfred Koerppen, who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil? |
Hans-Joachim Hespos | 13 Mar 1938 | 18 Jul 2022 | ||
Alice Harnoncourt | ![]() |
26 Sep 1930 | 20 Jul 2022 | |
Ruslana Pysanka | ![]() |
17 Nov 1965 | 20 Jul 2022 | 10 Aug 2022 ... that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy from 2008, died as a refugee in Germany? |
Stefan Soltész | 6 Jan 1949 | 22 Jul 2022 | ||
Maria Frisé | 1 Jan 1926 | 31 Jul 2022 | ||
Anastasiya Kobzarenko | 8 May 1934 | 1 Aug 2022 | ||
Eike Christian Hirsch | 6 Apr 1937 | 7 Aug 2022 | ||
Zofia Posmysz | ![]() |
23 Aug 1923 | 8 Aug 2022 | 16 Mar 2018 ... that Zofia Posmysz (pictured), Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play on her memories, which became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, a 1963 film, and a 1968 opera? |
Jean-Jacques Sempé | ![]() |
17 Aug 1932 | 11 Aug 2022 | 4 Sep 2022 ... that The Story of Mr Sommer, a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé, has been described as "a children's tale for adults"? (new) |
Matti Lehtinen | ![]() |
24 Apr 1922 | 17 Aug 2022 | 7 Sep 2022 ... that Matti Lehtinen, a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93? (new) |
Theo Sommer | ![]() |
10 Jun 1930 | 22 Aug 2022 | |
Ruth Lapide | 1929 | 30 Aug 2022 | ||
Lars Vogt | ![]() |
8 Sep 1970 | 5 Sep 2022 | ... that concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998, are played in a power plant? ... that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach (pictured), a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974? (new) |
Mariella Mehr | 26 Sep 1947 | 5 Sep 2022 | ||
Jörg Faerber | 18 Jun 1929 | 13 Sep 2022 | 2 Apr 2013 ... that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich? | |
Barbara Stamm | ![]() |
29 Oct 1944 | 5 Oct 2022 | |
Leon Schidlowsky | 21 Jul 1931 | 10 Oct 2022 | 28 Dec 2022 ... that Leon Schidlowsky wrote the Misa sine nomine in memory of Víctor Jara for speaker, choirs, organ and percussion, juxtaposing mass texts with contemporary poetry and Torah verses? (new) | |
Bernardo Adam Ferrero | ![]() |
28 Feb 1942 | 12 Oct 2022 | 4 Dec 2022 ... that Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military bands that he conducted? |
Mariana Nicolesco | 28 Nov 1948 | 14 Oct 2022 | ||
Michael Ponti | 29 Oct 1937 | 17 Oct 2022 | ||
Galina Pisarenko | 24 Jan 1934 | 23 Oct 2022 | ||
Libor Pešek | ![]() |
22 Jun 1933 | 23 Oct 2022 | |
Pierre Soulages | ![]() |
24 Dec 1919 | 26 Oct 2022 | |
Hannah Pick-Goslar | 12 Nov 1928 | 28 Oct 2022 | ||
Werner Schulz | ![]() |
22 Jan 1950 | 9 Nov 2022 | |
Wolf Schneider | ![]() |
7 May 1925 | 10 Nov 2022 | |
Azio Corghi | 9 Mar 1937 | 17 Nov 2022 | 17 Dec 2022 ... that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster? | |
Ned Rorem | 23 Oct 1923 | 18 Nov 2022 | ||
Michael Hampe | 3 Jun 1935 | 18 Nov 2022 | 11 Apr 2021 ... that Michael Hampe, who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival? | |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger | ![]() |
11 Nov 1929 | 24 Nov 2022 | |
Jens Bullerjahn | ![]() |
15 Jul 1962 | 26 Nov 2022 | |
Christiane Hörbiger | ![]() |
13 Oct 1938 | 30 Nov 2022 | |
Volodymyr Kozhukhar | 16 Mar 1941 | 3 Dec 2022 | 12 Jan 2023 ... that Volodymyr Kozhukhar, chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite? | |
Quentin Oliver Lee | 28 Jan 1988 | 1 Dec 2022 | 30 Dec 2022 ... that Quentin Oliver Lee landed a title role in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway after a casting agent had spotted him singing in a subway station? | |
Wolf Erlbruch | 30 Jun 1948 | 11 Dec 2022 | ||
Werner Leich | 31 Jan 1927 | 17 Dec 2022 | ||
Dieter Henrich | 5 Jan 1927 | 17 Dec 2022 | ||
Wim Henderickx | 17 Mar 1962 | 18 Dec 2022 | ||
Manfred Messerschmidt | 1 Oct 1926 | 19 Dec 2022 | ||
Pope Benedict XVI | ![]() |
16 Apr 1927 | 31 Dec 2022 | |
Kurt Horres | 28 Nov 1932 | 2 Jan 2023 | ||
Andrew Downes | 20 Aug 1950 | 2 Jan 2023 | ||
Rosi Mittermaier | ![]() |
5 Aug 1950 | 4 Jan 2023 | |
Siegfried Kurz | 18 Jul 1930 | 8 Jan 2023 | ||
Hans Krieger | 13 Mar 1933 | 9 Jan 2023 | 4 Dec 2011 ... that Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today? | |
Lothar Blumhagen | 16 Jul 1927 | 10 Jan 2013 | ||
José Evangelista | 5 Aug 1943 | 10 Jan 2023 | ||
Carl Hahn | 1 Jul 1926 | 14 Jan 2023 | ||
Clytus Gottwald | 20 Nov 1925 | 18 Jan 2023 | 19 Jul 2012 ... that Clytus Gottwald has arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world"? | |
Melitta Muszely | ![]() |
13 Sep 1927 | 18 Jan 2023 | 19 Mar 2019 ... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80? |
Gero Storjohann | ![]() |
12 Feb 1958 | 29 Jan 2023 | |
Jürgen Flimm | 17 July 1941 | 4 Feb 2023 | ||
Friedrich Cerha | ![]() |
17 Feb 1926 | 14 Feb 2023 | |
Nadja Tiller | ![]() |
16 Mar 1929 | 21 Feb 2023 | |
Günther von Lojewski | 11 Jul 1935 | 26 Feb 2023 | ||
Mary Bauermeister | ![]() |
7 Sep 1934 | 2 Mar 2023 | |
Heinz Schwarz | 24 Jul 1928 | 6 Mar 2023 | 27 Apr 2023 ... that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020? | |
Marek Kopelent | 28 Apr 1932 | 12 Mar 2023 | ||
Antje Vollmer | ![]() |
31 May 1941 | 15 Mar 2023 | |
James Bowman | 6 Nov 1941 | 27 Mar 2023 | ||
Horst Milde | 6 Apr 1923 | 29 Mar 2023 | ||
Andreas K. W. Meyer | 2 Jun 1958 | 8 Apr 2023 | ||
Huub Oosterhuis | ![]() |
1 Nov 1933 | 9 Apr 2023 | 7 Sep 2019 ... that the melody of the Christian hymn "Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis" is written without bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions? ... that the 1965 song "Wie als een God wil leven" written by Huub Oosterhuis was listed in 2013 among hymns in German successful with young people? |
Karl Berger | 30 Mar 1935 | 9 Apr 2023 | ||
Irma Blank | ![]() |
1934 | 14 Apr 2023 | (new) 21 May 2023 ... that the art of Irma Blank (pictured), of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s? |
Martin Petzold | 25 Jun 1955 | 19 Apr 2023 | 13 Sep 2012 ... that tenor Martin Petzold, a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor, sang Bach's Evangelist parts with the group? | |
Sergio Rendine | 7 Sep 1954 | 21 Apr 2023 | ||
Manfred Weiss | 12 Feb 1935 | 25 Apr 2023 | ||
Menahem Pressler | ![]() |
16 Dec 1936 | 6 May 2023 | |
Grace Bumbry | ![]() |
4 Jan 1937 | 7 May 2023 | |
Soňa Červená![]() |
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9 Sep 1925 | 7 May 2023 | 29 Jun 2023 ... that international opera singer Soňa Červená (pictured) won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress at age 83? |
Günter Wewel | 29 Nov 1934 | 9 May 2023 | ||
Sibylle Lewitscharoff | ![]() |
16 Apr 1954 | 13 May 2023 | |
Maria Mies![]() |
6 Feb 1931 | 15 May 2023 | ||
Javier Álvarez | ![]() |
8 May 1956 | 23 May 2023 | |
Mordechai Rechtman | 16 May 1926 | 27 May 2023 | ||
Harald zur Hausen | ![]() |
11 Mar 1936 | 29 May 2023 | 13 Oct 2008 ... that virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008? |
Kurt Widmer | 28 Dec 1940 | 31 May 2023 | ||
Françoise Gilot | ![]() |
26 Nov 1921 | 6 Jun 2023 | |
Suna Kan | 21 Oct 1936 | 11 Jun 2023 | ||
Cornel Țăranu | 20 Jun 1934 | 18 Jun 2023 | (new) that Romanian musicologist Cornel Țăranu completed unfinished scores by George Enescu, namely those which Enescu himself did not wish to publish? | |
Bernd Schroeder | ![]() |
6 Jun 1944 | 18 Jun 2023 | 28 Feb 2020 ... that Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by wife and husband? |
Gabriele Schnaut![]() |
24 Feb 1951 | 19 Jun 2023 | 17 Dec 2013 ... that Gabriele Schnaut recorded alto parts in Bach cantatas in the 1970s, and appeared as Waltraute and Second Norne in the Jahrhundertring film in 1980, as Isolde in 1985, and as Turandot in 2002? | |
Doris Stockhausen | 28 Feb 1924 | 20 Jun 2023 | 28 Feb 2021 ... that Doris Stockhausen's husband}} dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married? | |
Peter Brötzmann | ![]() |
6 Mar 1941 | 22 Jun 2023 | |
Rachel Yakar![]() |
3 Mar 1936 | 24 Jun 2023 | 17 Nov 2023 ... that soprano Rachel Yakar, who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"? | |
Clarence Barlow | ![]() |
27 Dec 1945 | 29 Jun 2023 | |
Anthony Gilbert | 26 Jul 1934 | 5 Jul 2023 | ||
Graham Clark![]() |
10 Nov 1941 | 6 Jul 2023 | 17 Sep 2023 ... that the tenor Graham Clark appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, portraying the characters Loge and Mime in the 1988 Ring cycle? | |
Violeta Hemsy de Gainza | ![]() |
25 Jan 1929 | 7 Jul 2023 | |
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky | ![]() |
10 Dec 1933 | 10 Jul 2023 | 27 Jul 2023 ... that in 1973 Luten Petrowsky (pictured) played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany? |
Christian Quadflieg | 11 Apr 1945 | 16 Jul 2023 | ||
Valentin Gheorghiu | 21 Mar 1928 | 17 Jul 2023 | ||
Heide Simonis | ![]() |
4 Jul 1943 | 12 Jul 2023 | |
Silvana Lattmann | ![]() |
8 Nov 1918 | 19 Jul 2023 | |
Martin Walser | 24 Mar 1927 | 28 Jul 2023 | ||
Nancy Van de Vate | 30 Dec 1930 | 29 Jul 2023 | ||
Mariana Sîrbu | ![]() |
1948 or 1949 | 1 Aug 2023 | |
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse | ![]() |
30 Jul 1929 | 5 Aug 2023 | |
Renata Scotto | ![]() |
24 Feb 1934 | 16 Aug 2023 | |
Berit Lindholm![]() |
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18 Oct 1934 | 12 Aug 2023 | 30 Aug 2023 |
Gloria Coates | ![]() |
10 Oct 1933 | 19 Aug 2023 | |
Robert Hale | 22 Aug 1933 | 23 Aug 2023 | 14 Oct 2023 ... that when Robert Hale performed as Wagner's Wotan in Washington, a reviewer noted that he commanded "the spirit, from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment, from flooding tenderness to grim rage"? | |
Milka Stojanović | 13 Jan 1937 | 1 Sep 2023 | ||
Walter Arlen | 31 Jul 1920 | 2 Sep 2023 | ||
Anatol Ugorski | 28 Sep 1942 | 5 Sep 2023 | ||
Margherita Rinaldi | ![]() |
12 Jan 1935 | 7 Sep 2023 | |
Stephen Gould![]() |
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24 Jan 1962 | 19 Sep 2023 | 7 Feb 2024 ... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"? |
Felix Ayo | 1 Jul 1933 | 24 Sep 2023 | ||
François Glorieux | 27 Aug 1932 | 23 Sep 2023 | 29 Nov 2023 (new) ... that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson? | |
Russell Sherman | 25 Mar 1930 | 30 Sep 2023 | ||
Claus Wisser | 30 Jun 1942 | 4 Oct 2023 | 30 Jun 1918 ... that Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday? | |
Jacqueline Dark | 1967 | 4 Oct 2023 | ||
Maurice Bourgue | 6 Nov 1939 | 6 Oct 2023 | ||
Reiner Goldberg | 17 Oct 1939 | 7 Oct 2023 | ||
Jorge Lavelli | 11 Nov 1932 | 9 Oct 2023 | ||
Hatto Beyerle | 20 Jun 1933 | 15 Oct 2023 | ||
Carmen Petra Basacopol | ![]() |
5 Sep 1926 | 15 Oct 2023 | |
Carla Bley | ![]() |
11 May 1936 | 17 Oct 2023 | |
István Láng | 1 Mar 1933 | 23 Oct 2023 | ||
Zdeněk Mácal | ![]() |
8 Jan 1936 | 25 Oct 2023 | |
Lea Ackermann | 2 Feb 1937 | 31 Oct 2023 | 23 Nov 2023 ... that Lea Ackermann (pictured), a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa? | |
Ryland Davies | 9 Feb 1943 | 5 Nov 2023 | 9 Jan 2024 ... that a 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre? | |
Harald Heckmann | 6 Dec 1924 | 5 Nov 2023 | ||
Claude Kahn | ![]() |
9 Nov 1935 | 17 Nov 2023 | |
Colette Maze | 16 Jun 1914 | 19 Nov 2023 | ||
Douglas Ahlstedt | 16 Mar 1945 | 24 Nov 2023 | ||
Medea Amiranashvili | 10 Oct 1935 | 2 Dec 2023 | ||
Wolfgang Wieland | 16 Mar 1948 | 5 Dec 2023 | ||
Gunther Emmerlich | ![]() |
18 Sep 1944 | 19 Dec 2023 | |
Rebekka Habermas | 3 Jul 1959 | 21 Dec 2023 | ||
Heike Matthiesen | ![]() |
27 Jun 1964 | 22 Dec 2023 | |
Hermann Baumann | ![]() |
1 Aug 1934 | 29 Dec 2023 | |
Chris Karrer | 20 Jan 1946 | 2 Jan 2024 | ||
Tamara Milashkina | ![]() |
13 Sep 1934 | 10 Jan 2024 | 23 Apr 2013 ... that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed Tchaikowsky operas alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975? |
Romuald Twardowski | ![]() |
17 Jun 1930 | 13 Jan 2024 | |
Gerd Uecker | 15 Sep 1946 | 17 Jan 2024 | ||
Ewa Podleś | ![]() |
26 Apr 1952 | 19 Jan 2024 | |
Oskar Negt | ![]() |
1 Aug 1934 | 2 Feb 2024 | |
Helga Paris | ![]() |
21 May 1938 | 5 Feb 2024 | |
Seiji Ozawa | ![]() |
1 Sep 1935 | 6 Feb 2024 | |
Alfred Grosser | ![]() |
1 Feb 1925 | 7 Feb 2024 | |
Johanna von Koczian | 30 Oct 1933 | 10 Feb 2024 | ||
Ladislav Burlas | 3 Apr 1927 | 11 Feb 2024 | 3 Apr 2024 ... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career? | |
Ira von Fürstenberg | ![]() |
17 Apr 1940 | 19 Feb 2024 | |
Rudolf Jansen | ![]() |
19 Jan 1940 | 12 Feb 2024 | |
Gabriela Grillo | 19 Aug 1952 | 25 Feb 2024 | ||
Günther Leib | 12 Apr 1927 | 3 Mar 2024 | 8 Aug 2018 ... that Günther Leib, who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival, was called a "first rate Beckmesser" by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera? | |
Françoise Garner | 17 October 1933 | 7 Mar 2024 | ||
Guy Touvron | ![]() |
15 Feb 1950 | 9 Mar 2024 | |
Aribert Reimann | ![]() |
4 Mar 1936 | 9 Mar 2024 | 22 Aug 2017 ... that Aribert Reimann composed Medea for the Vienna State Opera, based on the drama by Franz Grillparzer? |
Maurizio Pollini | ![]() |
5 Jan 1942 | 23 Mar 2024 | 24 Feb 2019 ... that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini? |
Péter Eötvös | 2 Jan 1944 | 24 Mar 2024 | 28 Oct 2018 ... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors? | |
Judith Hemmendinger | 2 Oct 1922 | 24 Mar 2024 | 14 Dec 2016 ... that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel? | |
Hans Joachim Meyer | ![]() |
13 Oct 1936 | 29 Mar 2024 | |
Notker Wolf | ![]() |
21 Jun 1940 | 2 Apr 2024 | |
Gerhard Lohfink | 29 Aug 1934 | 2 Apr 2024 | ||
Kalevi Kiviniemi | ![]() |
30 Jun 1959 | 3 Apr 2024 | |
Joe Viera | 4 Sep 1932 | 7 Apr 2024 | ||
Michael Boder | 9 Nov 1958 | 7 Apr 2024 | ||
Dieter Rexroth | 6 May 1941 | 9 Apr 2024 | ||
Samuel Kummer | ![]() |
10 Mar 1938 | 13 Apr 2024 | 30 May 2024 ... that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger, Louis Vierne, and Samuel Kummer? |
Lorenzo Palomo | ![]() |
10 Mar 1938 | 13 Apr 2024 | |
Andrew Davis | ![]() |
2 Feb 1944 | 20 Apr 2024 | |
Peter Demetz | ![]() |
21 Oct 1922 | 30 Apr 2024 | 5 Jun 2024 ... that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949? |
Gerhard Müller | 10 May 1929 | 10 May 2024 | ||
Willi Brokmeier | 8 Apr 1928 | 18 May 2024 | 22 Sep 2021 ... that Willi Brokmeier, who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan? | |
Rolf-Ernst Breuer | 3 Nov 1937 | 22 May 2024 | ||
Hugues Gall | 18 Mar 1940 | 25 May 2024 | ||
Alexander Lang | 24 Sep 1941 | 31 May 2024 | ||
Jürgen Moltmann | ![]() |
8 Apr 1926 | 3 Jun 2024 | |
Éric Tappy | 19 May 1931 | 11 Jun 2024 | ||
Jodie Devos | 10 Oct 1988 | 16 Jun 2024 | ||
Gerhard Klingenberg | ![]() |
11 May 1929 | 18 Jun 2024 | plan |
Lothar Gall | 3 Dec 1936 | 20 Jun 2024 | ||
Margarita Voites | ![]() |
30 Oct 1936 | 20 Jun 2024 | |
Lando Bartolini | 11 Apr 1937 | 28 Jun 2024 | ||
Martti Wallén | 20 Nov 1948 | 29 Jun 2024 | ||
Liana Isakadze | ![]() |
2 Aug 1946 | 5 Jul 2024 | |
Marina Kondratyeva | ![]() |
1 Feb 1934 | 8 Jul 2024 | plan |
Thomas Hoepker | ![]() |
10 Jun 1936 | 10 Jul 2024 | |
Ruth Hesse | 18 Sep 1936 | 13 Jul 2024 | 2 Jun 2019 ... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"? |