Anniversaries 2026

December 23, 2025, 1:34 PM · The year 2026 offers a particularly diverse calendar of anniversaries, featuring central figures of 20th-century music alongside pivotal names from earlier eras. Highlights include the centenaries of the birth of a generation crucial to contemporary composition and performance—György Kurtág, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, Hans Werner Henze, Friedrich Cerha, Rita Gorr, and Joan Sutherland—along with anniversaries marking fundamental moments in musical history, such as the 400th anniversary of John Dowland's death and the bicentenary of Carl Maria von Weber's passing.

The calendar also includes anniversaries of special significance for the Hispanic world, such as the 150th anniversaries of the births of Manuel de Falla and Pau Casals, and commemorates essential figures in musical thought and orchestral conducting, such as Charles Burney, H. C. Robbins Landon, and Klaus Tennstedt. The lineup is rounded out by internationally renowned names such as Galina Vishnevskaya, Jon Vickers, and Benjamin Britten. The relevant quotes are listed below.

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Richard Pairaudeau

Edited: December 23, 2025, 1:47 PM · https://scherzo.es/aniversarios-musicales-2026/

Article in Spanish from Scherzo magazine. I have lazily pushed it through Google translation - gone are the days when automatic translation resulted in wonderful crackers.

Hope this is of general interest. If you open the link the list of names etc. is easy to follow.