Musical Anniversaries in 2017

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Happy New Year!

We start the year by looking ahead and getting ready to celebrate people in the RISM database who will have a major birthday this year or to remember those who died. We would like to begin 2017 with an overview of these people: they are not only composers but also include librettists, musicians, dedicatees, or people who are in other ways related to a source. They were born or died in a year ending in 17 or 67.

A special highlight of 2017 will be a packed calendar of events that mark the death of Georg Philipp Telemann 250 years ago. The celebrations, an overview of which can be viewed on the Telemann 2017 website, will reach previously unseen dimensions of scope and diversity of activities.

To start off the celebrations, here is a sampling of ten people (of the almost 900) you can add to your calendar:

• Susanna Centlivre (1667-1723), Irish actress and writer
• Louise Sophie af Danneskjold-Samsøe (1796-1867), Danish duchess
• Teresa de Giuli Borsi (1817-1877), Italian soprano
• Jacob French (1754-1817), American composer
• Antoni Kątski (1817-1899), Polish composer and pianist
• Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (1838-1917), composer of the famous song “Aloah oe”
• František Lopatář (1817-1890), Czech composer and cantor
• Alexandre-Vincent Pineux-Duval (1767-1842), French librettist and architect
• Wolf Dietrich, archbishop of Salzburg (1559-1617)
• Esther Young (1717-1795), English mezzo-soprano

Explore the other ca. 890 in these lists, which range from the Bavarian priest Anton Acher (1744-1817) to the Swiss prior and clergyman Gregor Zwissieni (1700-1767). Chronologically speaking, we begin with the Roman historian Livy (born Titus Livius, 59 BC–17 AD) and end with the German writer Kuba (born Kurt Barthel, 1914-1967).

A link to the full table is available here

c = circa
a = before
p = after
m = male
w / f = female

Image from pixabay.com.

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