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If you're seeking programme ideas or a concert theme, this list of mainly music-related events might provide some inspiration. The "years ago" numbers are from this year to the stated year, not from today's date to that date. More events, with a broader subject range, are available near the page end. If you have a suggestion for inclusion here, e-mail calendar@organrecitals.com
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1 January 1944:d. Edwin Lutyens, aged 74. (73 years ago) [article]
2 January 1905:b. Michael Tippett (112 years ago) [article]
8 January 1998:d. Michael Tippett, aged 93. (19 years ago) [article]
9 January 1984:d. Frederick Gibberd, aged 76. (33 years ago) [article]
15 January 1893:b. Ivor Novello (124 years ago) [article]
17 January 1941:b. Gillian Weir (76 years ago) [article]
18 January 1987:d. George Thalben-Ball, aged 90. (30 years ago) [article]
22 January 1870:b. Charles Tournemire (147 years ago) [article]
27 January 1756:b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (261 years ago) [article]
28 January 1944:b. John Tavener (73 years ago) [article]
29 January 1862:b. Frederick Delius (155 years ago) [article]
30 January 1839:b. John Francis Bentley (178 years ago) [article]
30 January 2011:d. John Barry, aged 77. (6 years ago) [article]
31 January 1797:b. Franz Schubert (220 years ago) [article]
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3 February 1809:b. Felix Mendelssohn (208 years ago) [article]
4 February 2010:d. Allan Wicks, aged 86. (7 years ago) [article]
8 February 1932:b. John Williams (85 years ago) [article]
8 February 1960:d. Giles Gilbert Scott, aged 79. (57 years ago) [article]
11 February 1901:d. Henry 'Father' Willis, aged 79. (116 years ago) [article]
13 February 1883:d. Richard Wagner, aged 69. (134 years ago) [article]
14 February:St Valentine's Day [article]
20 February 1547:Coronation of Edward VI, the only English monarch to be
crowned in Westminster Cathedral. (470 years ago) [article]
20 February 1925:d. Marco Enrico Bossi, aged 63. (92 years ago) [article]
21 February 1844:b. Charles-Marie Widor (173 years ago) [article]
22 February 1884:b. Edwin York Bowen (133 years ago) [article]
23 February 1900:d. William Butterfield, aged 85. (117 years ago) [article]
23 February 1934:d. Edward Elgar, aged 76. (83 years ago) [article]
23 February 1983:d. Herbert Howells, aged 91. (34 years ago) [article]
24 February 1766:b. Samuel Wesley (251 years ago) [article]
27 February 1848:b. Charles Hastings Hubert Parry (169 years ago) [article]
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1 March:St David's Day [article]
1 March 1810:b. Frédéric Chopin (207 years ago) [article]
2 March 1824:b. Bedřich Smetana (193 years ago) [article]
2 March 1902:d. John Francis Bentley, aged 63. (115 years ago) [article]
3 March 1869:b. Henry Wood (148 years ago) [article]
4 March 1678:b. Antonio Vivaldi (339 years ago) [article]
5 March 1953:d. Sergei Prokofiev, aged 61. (64 years ago) [article]
6 March 1951:d. Ivor Novello, aged 58. (66 years ago) [article]
6 March 1829:b. Arthur Blomfield (188 years ago) [article]
7 March 1875:b. Maurice Ravel (142 years ago) [article]
8 March 1714:b. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (303 years ago) [article]
8 March 1723:d. Christopher Wren, aged 90. (294 years ago) [article]
8 March 1869:d. Hector Berlioz, aged 65. (148 years ago) [article]
8 March 1961:d. Thomas Beecham, aged 81. (56 years ago) [article]
8 March 1983:d. William Walton, aged 80. (34 years ago) [article]
10 March 1915:b. Charles Groves (102 years ago) [article]
11 March 1914:b. William Lloyd Webber (103 years ago) [article]
11 March 1941:d. Walford Davies, aged 71. (76 years ago) [article]
12 March 1837:b. Alexandre Guilmant (180 years ago) [article]
12 March 1937:d. Charles-Marie Widor, aged 93. (80 years ago) [article]
17 March:St Patrick's Day [article]
17 March 1884:b. Joseph Bonnet (133 years ago) [article]
19 March 1873:b. Max Reger (144 years ago) [article]
22 March 1868:b. Hamish MacCunn (149 years ago) [article]
23 March 1834:b. Julius Reubke (183 years ago) [article]
23 March 1844:b. Eugène Gigout (173 years ago) [article]
26 March 1827:d. Ludwig Van Beethoven, aged 56. (190 years ago) [article]
28 March 1943:d. Sergei Rachmaninoff, aged 69. (74 years ago) [article]
29 March 1902:b. William Walton (115 years ago) [article]
29 March 1911:d. Alexandre Guilmant, aged 74. (106 years ago) [article]
29 March 1924:d. Charles Villiers Stanford, aged 71. (93 years ago) [article]
31 March 1685:b. Johann Sebastian Bach (332 years ago) [article]
31 March 1732:b. Joseph Haydn (285 years ago) [article]
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1 April 1873:b. Sergei Rachmaninoff (144 years ago) [article]
3 April 1897:d. Johannes Brahms, aged 63. (120 years ago) [article]
5 April 1908:b. Herbert von Karajan (109 years ago) [article]
9 April 1933:d. Sigfrid Karg-Elert, aged 55. (84 years ago) [article]
19 April 1876:d. Samuel Sebastian Wesley, aged 65. (141 years ago) [article]
23 April:St George's Day [article]
23 April 1891:b. Sergei Prokofiev (126 years ago) [article]
25 April 1861:b. Marco Enrico Bossi (156 years ago) [article]
27 April 1821:b. Henry 'Father' Willis (196 years ago) [article]
27 April 1992:d. Olivier Messiaen, aged 83. (25 years ago) [article]
29 April 1879:b. Thomas Beecham (138 years ago) [article]
29 April 1895:b. Malcolm Sargent (122 years ago) [article]
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1 May 1904:d. Antonín Dvořák, aged 62. (113 years ago) [article]
1 May 1946:d. Edward Bairstow, aged 71. (71 years ago) [article]
1 May 1946:d. Percy Whitlock, aged 42. (71 years ago) [article]
1 May 1978:d. Aram Khachaturian, aged 74. (39 years ago) [article]
7 May 1833:b. Johannes Brahms (184 years ago) [article]
7 May 1840:b. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (177 years ago) [article]
8 May 1945:Victory in Europe Day (72 years ago) [article]
9 May 1707:d. Dieterich Buxtehude (310 years ago) [article]
9 May 1934:b. Roy Massey (83 years ago) [article]
9 May 1985:d. Reginald Dixon, aged 80. (32 years ago) [article]
10 May 1897:d. William Thomas Best, aged 70. (120 years ago) [article]
10 May 1998:d. George Wright, aged 77. (19 years ago) [article]
11 May 1888:b. Irving Berlin (129 years ago) [article]
11 May 1916:d. Max Reger, aged 43. (101 years ago) [article]
12 May 1845:b. Gabriel Fauré (172 years ago) [article]
12 May 1884:d. Bedřich Smetana, aged 60. (133 years ago) [article]
13 May 1842:b. Arthur Sullivan (175 years ago) [article]
14 May 1896:b. Quentin Maclean (121 years ago) [article]
17 May 1942:d. Alfred Hollins, aged 76. (75 years ago) [article]
22 May 1813:b. Richard Wagner (204 years ago) [article]
22 May 1942:b. Guy Bovet (75 years ago) [article]
22 May 1980:d. Reginald Foort, aged 87. (37 years ago) [article]
23 May 1942:b. Christopher Herrick (75 years ago) [article]
24 May 1934:b. Barry Rose (83 years ago) [article]
25 May 1934:d. Gustav Holst, aged 59. (83 years ago) [article]
27 May 2010:d. David Sanger, aged 63. (7 years ago) [article]
28 May 1962:d. Jesse Crawford, aged 66. (55 years ago) [article]
31 May 1809:d. Joseph Haydn, aged 77. (208 years ago) [article]
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1 June 1903:b. Percy Whitlock (114 years ago) [article]
2 June 1857:b. Edward Elgar (160 years ago) [article]
2 June 1937:d. Louis Vierne, aged 66. (80 years ago) [article]
2 June 1953:Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (64 years ago) [article]
3 June 1858:d. Julius Reubke, aged 24. (159 years ago) [article]
3 June 1875:d. Georges Bizet, aged 36. (142 years ago) [article]
4 June 1974:d. Sidney Campbell, aged 64. (43 years ago) [article]
5 June 1625:d. Orlando Gibbons, aged 41. (392 years ago) [article]
6 June 1903:b. Aram Khachaturian (114 years ago) [article]
8 June 1810:b. Robert Schumann (207 years ago) [article]
9 June 1656:d. Thomas Tomkins (361 years ago) [article]
10 June 1934:d. Frederick Delius, aged 72. (83 years ago) [article]
11 June 1864:b. Richard Strauss (153 years ago) [article]
15 June 1843:b. Edvard Grieg (174 years ago) [article]
15 June 1866:b. Charles Wood. (151 years ago) [article]
20 June 1824:b. George Edmund Street (193 years ago) [article]
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4 July 1623:d. William Byrd (394 years ago) [article]
4 July 1776:American Independence Day (241 years ago) [article]
6 July 1879:d. Henry Smart, aged 65. (138 years ago) [article]
9 July 1962:d. Quentin Maclean, aged 66. (55 years ago) [article]
12 July 1926:d. Charles Wood, aged 60. (91 years ago) [article]
14 July 1901:b. Gerald Finzi (116 years ago) [article]
16 July 1989:d. Herbert von Karajan, aged 81. (28 years ago) [article]
16 July 1990:d. Sidney Torch, aged 82. (27 years ago) [article]
22 July 1874:b. Edward Bairstow (143 years ago) [article]
28 July 1741:d. Antonio Vivaldi, aged 63. (276 years ago) [article]
28 July 1750:d. Johann Sebastian Bach, aged 65. (267 years ago) [article]
29 July 1856:d. Robert Schumann, aged 55. (161 years ago) [article]
29 July 1992:d. William Mathias, aged 57. (25 years ago) [article]
31 July 1886:d. Franz Liszt, aged 74. (131 years ago) [article]
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2 August 1916:d. Hamish MacCunn, aged 48. (101 years ago) [article]
2 August 1944:d. Joseph Bonnet, aged 60. (73 years ago) [article]
4 August 1938:b. Simon Preston (79 years ago) [article]
9 August 1875:b. Albert Ketèlbey (142 years ago) [article]
9 August 1975:d. Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 68. (42 years ago) [article]
11 August 2012:d. Carlo Curley, aged 59. (5 years ago) [article]
12 August 2015:d. John Scott, aged 59. (2 years ago) [article]
13 August 1826:b. William Thomas Best (191 years ago) [article]
14 August 1810:b. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (207 years ago) [article]
19 August 1944:d. Henry Wood, aged 75. (73 years ago) [article]
24 August 1988:d. Kenneth Leighton, aged 58. (29 years ago) [article]
26 August 1958:d. Ralph Vaughan Williams, aged 85. (59 years ago) [article]
28 August 1920:b. George Wright (97 years ago) [article]
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2 September 1666:Great Fire of London started (351 years ago) [article]
4 September 1824:b. Anton Bruckner (193 years ago) [article]
4 September 1907:d. Edvard Grieg, aged 64. (110 years ago) [article]
6 September 1869:b. Walford Davies (148 years ago) [article]
6 September 2017:d. Derek Bourgeois, aged 75. (this year) [article]
7 September 1814:b. William Butterfield (203 years ago) [article]
8 September 1841:b. Antonín Dvořák (176 years ago) [article]
8 September 1949:d. Richard Strauss, aged 85. (68 years ago) [article]
9 September 1865:b. Edwin Lemare (152 years ago) [article]
10 September 1659:b. Henry Purcell (358 years ago) [article]
11 September 1865:b. Alfred Hollins (152 years ago) [article]
17 September 2015:d. David Willcocks, aged 95. (2 years ago) [article]
19 September 1926:b. Arthur Wills (91 years ago) [article]
21 September 1874:b. Gustav Holst (143 years ago) [article]
22 September 1989:d. Irving Berlin, aged 101. (28 years ago) [article]
24 September 1934:d. Edwin Lemare, aged 69. (83 years ago) [article]
25 September 1862:b. Léon Boëllmann (155 years ago) [article]
25 September 1906:b. Dmitri Shostakovich (111 years ago) [article]
27 September 1956:d. Gerald Finzi, aged 55. (61 years ago) [article]
30 September 1852:b. Charles Villiers Stanford (165 years ago) [article]
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2 October 1917:b. Francis Jackson (100 years ago) [article]
2 October 1929:b. Kenneth Leighton (88 years ago) [article]
3 October 1967:d. Malcolm Sargent, aged 72. (50 years ago) [article]
3 October 2015:d. Christopher Tambling, aged 51. (2 years ago) [article]
7 October 1918:d. Charles Hastings Hubert Parry, aged 70. (99 years ago) [article]
8 October 1870:b. Louis Vierne (147 years ago) [article]
9 October 1835:b. Camille Saint-Saëns (182 years ago) [article]
11 October 1837:d. Samuel Wesley, aged 71. (180 years ago) [article]
11 October 1896:d. Anton Bruckner, aged 72 (121 years ago) [article]
11 October 1897:d. Léon Boëllmann, aged 35. (120 years ago) [article]
12 October 1872:b. Ralph Vaughan Williams (145 years ago) [article]
16 October 1941:b. Derek Bourgeois (76 years ago) [article]
17 October 1849:d. Frédéric Chopin, aged 39. (168 years ago) [article]
17 October 1892:b. Herbert Howells (125 years ago) [article]
22 October 1811:b. Franz Liszt (206 years ago) [article]
25 October 1838:b. Georges Bizet (179 years ago) [article]
26 October 1813:b. Henry Smart (204 years ago) [article]
26 October 1749:d. Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, aged 72. (268 years ago) [article]
29 October 1982:d. William Lloyd Webber, aged 68. (35 years ago) [article]
30 October 1894:b. Peter Warlock (123 years ago) [article]
30 October 1899:b. Arthur Blomfield, aged 70. (118 years ago) [article]
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1 November:All Saints' Day [article]
1 November 1934:b. William Mathias (83 years ago) [article]
2 November:All Souls' Day [article]
3 November 1534:Parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, paving the way for Henry VIII
to become the Archbishop of Canterbury's boss. (483 years ago) [article]
3 November 1933:b. John Barry (84 years ago) [article]
4 November 1847:d. Felix Mendelssohn, aged 38. (170 years ago) [article]
4 November 1924:d. Gabriel Fauré, aged 79. (93 years ago) [article]
4 November 1939:d. Charles Tournemire, aged 69. (78 years ago) [article]
6 November 1893:d. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, aged 53. (124 years ago) [article]
11 November 1918:Armistice Day [article]
11 November 1936:b. Harry Bramma (81 years ago) [article]
12 November 2013:d. John Tavener, aged 69. (4 years ago) [article]
13 November 1817:b. Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (200 years ago) [article]
18 November 1996:d. Douglas Guest, aged 80. (21 years ago) [article]
19 November 1828:d. Franz Schubert, aged 31. (189 years ago) [article]
20 November 2002:d. George Guest, aged 78. (15 years ago) [article]
21 November 1695:d. Henry Purcell, aged 36. (322 years ago) [article]
21 November 1877:b. Sigfrid Karg-Elert (140 years ago) [article]
22 November 1900:d. Arthur Sullivan, aged 58. (117 years ago) [article]
22 November 1913:b. Benjamin Britten (104 years ago) [article]
23 November 1961:d. Edwin York Bowen, aged 77. (56 years ago) [article]
26 November 1959:d. Albert Ketèlbey, aged 84. (58 years ago) [article]
30 November:St Andrew's Day [article]
30 November 1623:d. Thomas Weelkes, aged 47. (394 years ago) [article]
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4 December 1976:d. Benjamin Britten, aged 63. (41 years ago) [article]
2 December 1895:b. Jesse Crawford (122 years ago) [article]
5 December 1791:d. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, aged 35. (226 years ago) [article]
9 December 1925:d. Eugène Gigout, aged 81. (92 years ago) [article]
10 December 1908:b. Olivier Messiaen (109 years ago) [article]
11 December 1803:b. Hector Berlioz (214 years ago) [article]
11 December 1897:d. John Loughborough Pearson, aged 80. (120 years ago) [article]
12 December 1974:d. Edward Maufe, aged 91. (43 years ago) [article]
14 December 1788:d. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, aged 74. (229 years ago) [article]
15 December 2000:d. Christopher Dearnley, aged 70. (17 years ago) [article]
16 December 1921:d. Camille Saint-Saëns, aged 86. (96 years ago) [article]
17 December 1930:d. Peter Warlock, aged 36. (87 years ago) [article]
18 December 1881:d. George Edmund Street, aged 57. (136 years ago) [article]
19 December 1676:b. Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (341 years ago) [article]
24 December 1929:b. Noel Rawsthorne (88 years ago) [article]
28 December 1937:d. Maurice Ravel, aged 62. (80 years ago) [article]
30 December 1961:d. Boris Ord, aged 64. (56 years ago) [article]
31 December 1869:d. Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, aged 52. (148 years ago) [article]
31 December 1948:b. Stephen Cleobury (69 years ago) [article]
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