The Sad Corner
Dedicated to musicians that have passed away recently

Year: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000

2024:

Sep 29, 2024: Rohan de Saram (1939-2024), Engish-born Sri Lankan cellist

Sep 9, 2024: Deborah Roberts (1962-2024), English soprano and choral conductor, founder and Artistic Director of Brighton Early Music Festival

Sep 5, 2024: Eduard van Hengel (1937-2024), Bach scholar and conributor to the BCW

Aug 27, 2024: Howard Crook (1947-2024), American tenor

Aug 26, 2024: Alexander Goehr (1932-2024), German-born English composer and pedagogue

Aug 24, 2024: Siegfried Lorenz (1945-1924), German baritone

Aug 11, 2024: Steve Davislim (1967-2024), Malaysian-born Australian tenor

Aug 10, 2024: Celestina Casapietra (1938-2024), Italian soprano

Aug 3, 2024: Antonio Meneses (1957-2024), Brazilian cellist

Jul 26, 2024: Benjamin Luxon (1937-2024), English baritone

Jul 18, 2024: Mildred Bowman (1921-2024), American contralto

Jul 13, 2024: Ruth Hesse (1936-2024), German mezzo-soprano

Jun 16, 2024: Jodie Devos (1988-2024), Belgian soprano

Jun 11, 2024: Eric Tappy (1931-2024), Swiss tenor

Jun 5, 2024: Geraldine Ballard (1938-2024), American soprano

Apr 20, 2024: Andrew Davis (1944-2024), English conductor, organist and composer

Mar 24, 2024: Péter Eötvös (1944-2024), Hungarian composer and conductor

Mar 23, 2024: Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024), Italian pianist

Mar 14, 2024: Byron Janis (1928-2024), American pianist

Feb 6, 2024: Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024), Japanese conductor

Jan 22, 2024: Neva Pilgrim (1938-2024), American soprano

Jan 19, 2024: Ewa Podleś (1952-2024), Polish contralto

Jan 16, 2024: Peter Schickele (1935-2024), American composer, music educator and parodist (AKA: PDQ Bach)

Jan 15, 2024: Edward Schappert (1926-2024), American tenor

2023:

Dec 29, 2023: Hermann Baumann (1934-2023), German horn player

Nov 18, 2023: David Del Tredici (1937-2023), American composer

Nov 12, 2023: Heinz Zickler (1920-2023), German trumpet player, organist and cantor

Oct 2, 2023: Herbert Handt (1926-2023), American tenor and conductor

Oct 1, 2023: Patricia Janečková (1998-2023), Slovak Soprano

Sep 22, 2023: Alejandro Meerapfel (1969-2023), Argentine baritone

Aug 15, 2023: Arnold Östman (1939-2023), Swedish conductor and harpsichordist

Jul 16, 2023: Mario Videla (1939-2023), Argentine harpsichord, clavichordist, organist and conductor

Jun 23, 2023: Holger Eichhorn (1942-2023), Polish-born German musicologist, cornet player and conductor

Jun 19, 2023: Gabriele Schnaut (1951-2023), German soprano and mezzo-soprano

May 27, 2023: Mordechai Rechtman (1926-2023), German-born Israeli bassoonist, conductor, arranger, teacher and educator

May 14, 2023: Ingrid Haebler (1926/1929-2023), Austrian pianist

Apr 21, 2023: Martin Petzold (1955-2023), German tenor

Apr 4, 2023: Lev Markiz (1930-2023), Russian conductor

Mar 27, 2023: James Bowman (1941-2023), English counter-tenor

Mar 5, 2023: Kenneth Montgomery (1943-2023), British conductor

Feb 6, 2023: Siegfried Heinrich (1935-2023), German conductor

Jan 29, 2023: Gabriel Tacchino (1934-2023), French pianist and music teacher

2022:

Dec 13, 2022: Stephen Roberts (1949-2022), Welsh Baritone

Dec 10, 2022: John Aler (1949-2022), American tenor

Oct 23, 2022: Galina Pisarenko (1934-2022), Russian soprano

Oct 19, 2022: Joanna Simon (1936-2022), American mezzo-soprano

Oct 17, 2022: Michael Ponti (1937-2022), German-born American pianist

Sep 13, 2022: Jörg Faerber (1929-2022), German conductor and founder of Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn

Sep 5, 2022: Lars Vogt (1970-2022), German pianist and conductor

Aug 27, 2022: Emma Murphy (1972-2022), English soprano and recorder player

Jul 23, 2022: Marie Leonhardt (1928-2022), Swiss period-instrument violinist and co-founder of the Leonhardt-Consort

Jul 20, 2022: Alice Harnoncourt (1930-2022), Austrian period-instrument violinist and co-founder of the Concentus Musicus Wien

Jul 3, 2022: Joseph Banowetz (1936-2022), American pianist, pedagogue, writer and scholar

Jun 22, 2022: Rudolf Ewerhart (1928-2022), German conductor, organist, harpsichordist and collector of vintage musical instruments

Jun 20, 2022: Kurt Equiluz (1929-2022), Austrian tenor

Jun 8, 2022: David Lloyd-Jones (1934-2022), English conductor

May 13, 2022: Teresa Berganza (1935-2022), Spanish mezzo-soprano and contralto

May 13, 2022: Simon Preston (1938-2022), English conductor, organist and harpsichordist

Apr 30, 2022: Meinard Kraak (1935-2022), Dutch baritone

Apr 19, 2022: Nicholas Angelich (1970-2022), American-born French pianist

Mar 31, 2022: Joseph Kalichstein (1946-2022), Israel-born American pianist

Feb 16, 2022: Julian Mincham (1939-2022), Bach scholar, musician and teacher

Feb 7, 2022: Kumiko Oshita (???-2022), Japanese soprano and singing teacher

Jan 27, 2022: Georg Christoph Biller (1955-2022), German conductor and baritone, Thomaskantor

Jan 19, 2022: Nigel Rogers (1935-2022), English tenor

2021:

Nov 2, 2021: Hitoshi Tamada (1984-2021),Japanese tenor

Nov 1, 2021: Nelson Freire (1944-2021), Brazilian pianist

Oct 23, 2021: Massimo Pradella (1924-2021), Italian conductor and violinist

Oct 21, 2021: Bernard Haitink (1929-2021), Dutch conductor

Oct 2, 2021: Friedrich-Wilhelm Tebbe (1945-2021), German conductor, singer, organist and school musician

Oct 18, 2021: Edita Gruberová (1946-2021), Slovak soprano

Sep 28, 2021: Karan Armstrong (1941-2021), American soprano

Sep 18, 2021: Jean-Patrice Brosse (1950-2021), French organist and harpsichordist

Sep 2, 2021: Michel Corboz (1934-2021), Swiss conductor

Aug 28, 2021: Teresa Żylis-Gara (1935-2021), Polish soprano

Aug 14, 2021: Igor Oistrakh (1931-2021), Ukrainian violinist and conductor

Aug 10, 2021: Stephen Wilkinson (1919-2021), English choral conductor and composer

Jul 1, 2021: Louis Andriessen (1939-2021), Dutch composer

Jun 20, 2021: Jeanne Lamon (1949-2021), American-Canadian violinist and conductor

May 21, 2018: Harriet Johnson (1920-2018, American soprano

May 19, 2021: Martin Turnovský (1928-2021), Czech conductor

May 19, 2021: Santiago Lusardi Girelli (1979-2021), Argentine conductor, composer and researcher

May 11, 2021: Walter Babiak (1933-2021), Canadian conductor, violist, composer and arranger

May 5, 2021: Michael Ryan (1951-2021), Irish-born / Hong Kong resident conductor, harpsichordist and music teacher

Apr 24, 2021: Christa Ludwig (1928-2021), German Mezzo-soprano

Mar 22, 2021: Peter Wimberger (1940-2011), Austrian bass-baritone

Mar 18, 2021: Józef M. Pacholczyk (1938-2021), Polish-born American ethnomusicologist and concert pianist

Mar 9, 2021: James Levine (1943-2021), American conductor and pianist

Mar 7, 2021: Dmitri Bashkirov (1931-2021), Russian/Georgian pianist and teacher

Mar 4, 2021: José Vasquez (1951-2021), Cuban-American viola da gamba player and early music specialist

Mar 4, 2021: Helmut Winschermann, (1920-2020), German conductor, oboist and teacher

Jan 5, 2021: Arthur Loosli (1926-2021), Swiss bass-baritone

Jan 5, 2021: Osian Ellis (1928-2021), Welsh harpist and teacher

2020:

Dec 28, 2020: Paul-Heinz Dittrich (1930-2020), German composer

Dec 28, 2020: Fou Ts'ong (1934-2020), Chinese-born English pianist

Dec 27, 2020: Heinz Maria Linz (1916-2020), German baritone

Dec 24, 2020: Ivry Gitlis (1922-2020), Israeli violinist

Dec 24, 2020: Catherine Ennis (1955-2020), English organist

Dec 18, 2020: Robin Sutherland (1951-2020), American pianist

Dec 12, 2020: Leslie Guinn (1935-2020), American bass-baritone and music pedagogue

Nov 30, 2020, Jean-Pierre Grivois (1940-1920): French author of the books MOI, JSB (2003) and Entre les notes de Bach (2016); contributor of French Translations of Bach Cantatas and other Vocal Works in Note to Note Format to the BCW (2003-2006)

Nov 17, 2020: Roland Hermann, Germann bass-baritone and singing pedagogue (1936-2020)

Oct 30, 2020: Arthur Wills (1926-2020), British organist and composer

Oct 25, 2020: György Fischer (1935-2020), Hungarian-born Austrian conductor, pianist and harpsichordist

Sep 24, 2020: Daniele Carnovich (1957-2020), Italian bass

Sep 15, 2020: Jan Krenz (1926-2020), Polish conductor and composer

Sep 6, 2020: Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932-2020), French soprano of Martiniquan origin

Sep 15, 2020: Caroline Kaart (1931-2020), Scottish-born Dutch mezzo-soprano, pedagogue and radio presenter

Sep 11, 2020: Annette Jahns (1958-2020), German mezzo/contralto, pedagogue, and opera director

Sep 6, 2020: Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932-2020), Martinique-born French soprano

Aug 30, 2020: Claudio Cavina (1962-2020), Italian counter-tenor and conductor

Aug 14, 2020: Julian Bream (1933-2020), English guitarist and lutenist

Aug 2, 2020: Leon Fleisher (1928-2020), American pianist, conductor and music pedagogue

Jul 31, 2020: Maria Friesenhausen (1932-2020), German soprano

Jul 16, 2020: Tommy J. Fry (1933-2020), American band leader, teacher, composer and arranger

Jun 4, 2020: Marcello Abbado (1926-2020), Italian composer, conductor, pianist and music pedagogue

May 3, 2020: Rosalind Elias (1930-2020), American mezzo-soprano

Apr 27, 2020: Lynn Harrell (1944-2020), American cellist

Apr 17, 2020: May Belle Golis (1926-2020), American soprano

Apr 16, 2020: Kenneth Gilbert (1931-2020), Canadian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist and teacher

Apr 7, 2020: Wolf Reinhold (1933-2020), German tenor, pianist and music pedagogue

Apr 3, 2020: Edward Brewer (1937-2020), American organist, harpsichordist

Mar 30, 2020: Sibylle Suske (1932-2020), German soprano

Mar 28, 2020: Hertha Töpper (1924-2020), Austrian contralto/mezzo-soprano

Mar 24, 2020: Edward H. Tarr (1936-2020), American trumpeter, teacher and musicologist

Mar 14, 2020: Wolfgang Marschner (1926-2020), German violinist, teacher of violin, composer and conductor

Feb 14, 2020: Reinbert de Leeuw (1938-2020), Dutch pianist, conductor and composer

Feb 12, 2020, Hamish Milne (1939-2020), English pianist

Feb 9, 2020: Margareta Hallin (1931-2020), Swedish soprano

Feb 9, 2020: Mirella Freni (1935-2020), Italian soprano

Feb 1, 2020: Peter Serkin (1947-2020), American pianist

Jan 30, 2020: Glenys Loulis (AKA Glenys Linos), British-Greek mezzo-soprano (1937/1941-2020)

Jan 23, 2020: Franz Mazura (1924-2020), Austria bass-baritone

Jan 20, 2020: Jenny Lou Corris (1928-2020), Americamezzo-soprano

Jan 16, 2020: Barry Tuckwell (1931-2020), Australia-born French horn player and conductor

Jan 10, 2020: Alfonso Fedi (1958-2020), Italian harpsichordist, conductor and music pedagogue

Jan 1, 2020: Jaap Schröder (1925-2020), Dutch violinist, conductor, and pedagogue

2019:

Dec 31, 2019: Hans-Dieter Höltge (1929-2019), German tenor

Dec 31, 2019: Matthew Truss (1984-2019), American counter-tenor

Dec 26, 2019: Robert Kohnen (1932-2019), Belgian harpsichordist

Dec 25, 2019: Peter Schreier, (1935-2019), German tenor and conductor

Dec 17, 2019: László Heltay (1930-2019), Hungarian-English conductor

Nov 30, 2019: Mariss Jansons (1943-2019), Latvian conductor

Nov 22, 2019: Stephen Cleobury (1948-2019), English choral conductor and organist

Oct 22, 2019: Hans Zender (1936-2019), German conductor and composer

Oct 22, 2019: Raymond Leppard (1927-2019), English conductor

Oct 8, 2019: Quade Winter (1951-2019), American composer, tenor, musical restorer and translator

Sep 30, 2019: Jessye Norman (1945-2019), American soprano

Sep 25: 2019: Paul Badura-Skoda (1927-2019), Austrian pianist, music editor and music pedagogue

Sep 22, 2019: George Fortune (1931-2019), American baritone

Sep 17, 2019: Dina Ugorskaja (1973-2019), Russian-born German pianist

Aug 25, 2019: Herbert Beattie (1926-2019), American bass and music pedagogue

Aug 24, 2019: Lutz-Michael Harder (1942-2019), German tenor

Aug 18, 2019: Helmut Froschauer (1933-2019), Austrian choral conductor

Jul 25, 2019: Anner Bylsma (1934-2019), Dutch cellist

Jul 2, 2019: Michael Colgrass (1932-2019), American-born Canadian musician, composer, arranger and music educator

Jun 27, 2019: Louis Thiry (1935-2019), French organist, composer and music pedagogue

Jun 10, 2019: Sven-David Sandström, (1942-1019), Swedish composer

May 20, 2019: Mira Zakai (1942-2019), Israeli contralto

May 12, 2019: Robert Stallman (1946-2019), American flautist and arranger

May 12, 2019: Inger Grudin-Brandt (1934-2019), Swedish harpsichordist, clavichordist and fortepianist

Apr 22, 2019: Heather Harper (1930-2019), Irish soprano

Apr 20, 2019: Heidi Fredersdorf (1935-2019), German soprano and choral conductor

Apr 16, 2019: Jörg Demus (1928-2019), Austrian pianist

Apr 1, 2019: Ruth-Margret Pütz (1930/1931-2019), Germany soprano

Mar 8, 2019: Michael Gielen (1927-2019), German conductor

Mar 3, 2019: Peter Hurford (1930-2019), English organist and composer

Mar 1, 2019: Joseph Flummerfelt (1937-2019), American conductor and music pedagogue

Feb 20, 2019: Ekkehard Wlaschiha (1938-2019), German baritone

Feb 13, 2019: Hans Stadlmair (1929-2019), Ausrian Conductor

Feb 6, 2019, Gerald English (1925-2019), English tenor

Jan 29, 2019: Sanford Sylvan (1953-2019), American bass-baritone

Jan 29, 2019: Elaine Bonazzi (1929-2019), American mezzo-soprano

Jan 27, 2019: Wilma Lipp (1925-2019), Austrian soprano

Jan 26, 2019: Jean Guillou (1930-2019), French organist, pianist, teacher and composer

Jan 10, 2019: Theo Adam (1926-2019), German bass-baritone

2018:

Dec 31, 2018: David Evitts (1942-2018), American bass-baritone

Dec 30, 2018: Blandine Verlet (1942-2018), French harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher

Nov 18, 2018: Henry Wing (1931-2018), American tenor

Nov 1, 2018: Riitta Laine (1963-2018), Finnish choral conductor and organist

Oct 23, 2018: Nathan Ward (1990-2018), American tenor

Oct 23, 2018: Karl Hochreither (1935-2018), German conductor and organist

Oct 14, 2018: Elisabeth Cooymans (1920-2018), Dutch contralto/mezzo-soprano

Sep 30, 2018: Victor Alarcón Díaz (1958-2018), Chilean choral conductor, tenor singer and music pedagogue; Founder & Artistic Director of Bach Santiago Cantata Cycle

Sep 15, 2018: Roman Cantieni (1944-2018), Swiss organist

Sep 6, 2018: Claudio Scimone (1934-2018), Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator

Aug 14, 2018: Valentina Levko (1926-2018), Russian mezzo-soprano

Jul 26, 2018: Hartmut Ochs (1930-2018), German bass

Jun 18, 2018: Barry McDaniel (1930-2018), American bass-baritone

Jun 16, 2016: Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-2018), Russian conductor (Russia)

Jun 15, 2018: Enoch zu Guttenberg (1946-2018), German conductor

Jun 7, 2018: Donald Weiskopff (1928-2018), American tenor

Jun 2, 2018: Frederic Balazs (1919-2018), Hungarian-born composer, conductor, and violinist

Jun 1, 2018: Charles Nelson (1926-2018), American bach-baritone and music pedagogue

May 28, 2018: Hanns-Martin Schneidt (1930-2018), German conductor

May 25, 2018: Piet Kee (1927-2018), Dutch organist & composer

May 10, 2018: Genia Las (AKA Panna Genia) (1926-2018), American soprano/mezzo-soprano

May 8, 2018: Jonathan Sternberg (1919-2018), American Conductor

May 8, 2018: Ilona Jánky Práda (???-2018), Romanian-Hungarian pianist

May 7, 2018: Elizabeth Schwimmer (1959-2018), Bolivian pianist, harpsichordist and conductor; Founder & Artistic Director of BachFest Cochabamba

Apr 14, 2018: Jean-Claude Malgoire (1940-2018), French conductor

Mar 2, 2018: Jesús López-Cobos (1940-2018), Spanish conductor

Jan 26, 2018: Igor Zhukov (1936-2018), Russian pianist, conductor, arranger and sound engineer

Jan 26, 2018: Ragnar Grøm (1927-2018), Nowegian author, hymnographer, translator and publisher; translated all Bach Sacred Cantatas into Norwegian

Jan 25, 2018: Robert Hickok (1927-2018), American choral conductor, teacher and administrator

Jan 14, 2018: François Morel (1926-2018), Canadian composer

Jan 9, 2018: Alexander Vedernikov (1927-2018), Russian bass

2017:

Nov 22, 2017: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017), Russian baritone

Nov 12, 2017: Michel Chapuis (1930-2017), French organist

Oct 21, 2017: Ingvar Lidholm, (1921-2017), Swedish Composer

Sep 27, 2017: Zuzana Růžičková (1928-2017), Czech harpsichordist

Sep 12, 2017: Nicoletta Panni (1933-2017), Italian soprano

Aug 31, 2017: Fabiano Monica (1950-2017), Italian conductor

Aug 23, 2017: Robert Clark (1931-2017), American organist

Jul 25, 2017: Endre Ütő (1937-2017), Hungarian bass

Jul 11, 2017: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929-2017), Italian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist and composer

Jul 6, 2017: Ian Shapinsky (1949-2017), American pianist

Jun 24, 2017: Wim van Beek, Dutch organist (1930-2017)

Jun 21, 2017: Ludger Rémy (1949-2017), German harpsichordist and conductor

Jun 2, 2017: Jeffrey Tate, (1943-2017), English conductor

May 24, 2017: Claudia Hellmann (1923-2017), German contralto/mezzo-soprano

May 19, 2017: Lothar Gast (1928-2017), German choral conductor, music teacher and composer

May 2, 2017: Norma Procter (1928-2017), English contralto

Apr 28, 2017: Theo Loosli (1935-2017), Swiss conductor

Apr 24, 2017: Agnes Giebel (1921-2017), Dutch-born German soprano

Apr 12, 2017: Kathleen Cassello (1958-2017), American soprano

Mar 27, 2017: Rainer Kussmaul (1946-2017), German violinist and conductor

Mar 20, 2017: Louis Frémaux (1921-2017), French conductor

Mar 13, 2017: Richard Campbell (1946-2017), English cellist and viola da gamba player

Mar 5, 2017: Kurt Moll (1938-2017), German bass

Feb 21, 2017: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1923-2017), Polish-American conductor and composer

Feb 17, 2017: Philip Creech (1950-2017), American tenor

Feb 14, 2017: Ulf Björkegren (1937-2017), Swedish tenor

Feb 10, 2017: Dietmar Schneider (1952-2017), German choral conductor organist and church musician

Jan 18, 2017: Roberta Peters (1930-2017), American soprano

Jan 16, 2017: Gerd Grochowski (1958-2017), German bass-baritone

Jan 15, 2017: Richard Divall, Australian conductor and musicologist

Jan 12, 2017: Rosemarie Lang (1947-2017), German mezzo-soprano

Jan 8, 2017: Nicolai Gedda (1925-2017), Swedish tenor

Jan 4, 2017: Georges Prêtre (1924-2017), French Conductor

2016:

Dec 23, 2016: Heinrich Schiff (1951-2016), Austrian cellist and conductor

Dec 14, 2016: Karel Husa (1921-2016), Czech-born American composer and conductor

Nov 27, 2016: Nijolė Ambrazaitytė (1939-2016), Lithuanian Mezzo-soprano

Nov 26, 2016: Russell Oberlin (1928-2016) American counter-tenor

Nov 17, 2016: Jutta Vulpius (1927-2016), German soprano

Nov 11, 2016: Ralph Kohn (1927-2016), German-born English baritone

Nov 6, 2016: Zoltán Kocsis (1952-2016), Hungarian pianist and conductor

Oct 25, 2016: Ursula Boese (1928-2016), German contralto

Oct 21, 2016: Antonia Fahberg (1928-2016), Austrian soprano

Oct 15, 2016: Hans Pischner (1914-2016), German harpsichordist

Oct 8, 2016: Claire Fassbender-Luz (1917-2016), German soprano

Oct 7, 2016: Anne Pashley (1937-2016), English soprano

Oct 2, 2016: Neville Marriner (1924-2016), English conductor and violinist

Sep 24, 2016: Christoph Albrecht (1930-2016), German organist

Aug 30, 2016: Halina Łukomska (1929-2016), Polish soprano

Aug 7, 2016: Robert Page, Conductor (1927-2016)

Aug 6, 2016: Temple Painter (1933-2016), American harpsichordist and organist

Jul 28, 2016: Peter Sadlo (1962-2016), German percussioinist

Jul 24, 2016: Marni Nixon (1930-2016), American soprano

Jul 20, 2016: André Isoir (1935-2016), French organist

Jul 12, 2016: Gregg Smith (1931-2016), American choral conductor and composer

Jul 5, 2016: Alirio Díaz (1923-2016), Venezuelan guitarist

Jun 9, 2016: J. Reilly Lewis (1944-2016), American conductor

Jun 6, 2016: Rolf Schweizer (1936-2016), German conductor, organist, church musician and composer

Jun 5, 2016: Phyllis Curtin (1921-2016), American soprano

May 26, 2016: Joel Hastings (1969-2016), Canadian pianist

May 17, 2016: Huguette Dreyfus (1928-2016), French harpsichordist

May 3, 2016: Verena Gohl (1925-2016), Swiss contralto

Apr __, 2016: Richard Taylor (1946-2016), American tenor

Apr 27, 2016: Gabriele Sima (1955-2016), Austria soprano, mezzo-soprano

Apr 5, 2016: Elsie Morrison (1924-2016), Australian soprano

Mar 30, 2016: Bram Beekman (1949-2016), Dutch organist and composer

Mar 20, 2016: Peter Williams (1937-2016), English musicologist, organist, harpsichordist

Mar 14, 2016: Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), English composer and conductor

Mar 5, 2016: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929-2016), Austrian conductor, cellist and viola da gamba player

Feb 26, 2016: Eri Klas (1939-2016), Estonian conductor

Feb 17, 2016: Boldizsár Keönch (1938-2016), Hungarian tenor

Feb 15, 2016: Louis Lane (1923-2016), American conductor

Feb 12, 2016: Albert LeDoux (1956-2016), American Choral Conductor

Feb 3, 2016: Saulius Sondeckis (1928-2016), Lithuanian conductor

Jan 29, 2016: Aurèle Nicolet (1926-2016), Swiss flautist

Jan 10, 2016: Lynn Griebling (1945-2016), American soprano

Jan 8, 2016: Eva Fleischer (1922-2016), German mezzo-soprano

Jan 6, 2016: Marc Delano Jenkins (1955-2016), American baritone, conductor and teacher

Jan 6, 2016: Robert Yeager (1918-2016), American tenor

Jan 5, 2016: Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), French composer and conductor

2015:

Dec 29, 2015: Dale Higbee (1925-2015), American music director and recorder player

Dec 29, 2015: Gwilym Edward Beechey (1938-2015), English musical scholar, organist, pianist, harpsichordist, lecturer, editor and composer

Dec 25, 2015: Noemí Souza (1924-2015), Argentine mezzo-soprano

Dec 19, 2015: Kurt Masur (1927-2015), German conductor

Dec 16, 2015: Aafje Heynis (1924-2015), Dutch contralto

Dec 15, 2015: Stella Doufexis (1968-2015), German-Greek mezzo-soprano

Dec 8, 2015: Mattiwilda Dobbs (1929-2015), American soprano

Dec 4, 2015: Armin Ude (1933-2015), German tenor

Dec 2, 2015: Nelly Lee (1942-2015), Russian soprano

Nov 29, 2015: Joachim Carlos Martini (1931-2015), Chilean-born German conductor

Nov 25, 2015: Klaus Ocker (1923-2015), German Bass

Nov 20, 2015: Malcolm Torrent (1950-2015), English military band leader

Nov 10, 2015: Robert Craft (1923-2015), American conductor and classical music writer

Nov 5, 2015: Mark Pearson (1930-2015), American bass and music pedagogue

Oct 30, 2015: John McCollum (1922-2015), American tenor

Oct 19, 2015: Dennis Schmidt (1949-2015), American organist

Sep 17, 2015: David Willcocks (1918-2015), English conductor, organist and music educator

Aug __, 2015: Rina Cornelissens (1942-2015), Dutch soprano

Aug 22, 2015: Marcos Lisenberg (1969-2015), Brazilian tenor

Aug 21, 2015: Dirk Schortemeier (1943-2015), German baritone

Aug 20, 2015: Kenneth Jennings (1925-2015), American choral conductor, composer and choral conducting teacher

Aug 12, 2015: John Scott (1956-2015), English organist and choral conductor

Jul 27, 2015: Ivan Moravec (1930-2015), Czech pianist

Jul 26, 2015: Wolfgang Gönnenwein (1933-2015), German conductor

Jul 23, 2015: Jean-Jacques Rapin (1932-2015), Swiss choral conductor and music pedagogue

Jul 15, 2015: Alan Curtis (1934-2015), American musicologist, harpsichordist, fortepianist and conductor

Jun 21, 2015: Gunther Schuller (1925-2015), American composer, conductor and music educator

Jun 14, 2015: Walter Weller (1938-2015), Austrian conductor and violinist

Jun 9, 2015: Lucienne Delvaux (1916-2015), Belgian mezzo-soprano

May 31, 2015: Nico Castel (1931-2015), American tenor and vocal coach

May 30, 2015 Christiane Sorell (1931-2015), Austrian soprano

Apr 27, 2015: Rolf Smedvig (1952-2015), American trumpeter

Apr 23, 2015: Réné Ponchelet (1929-2015), Luxembourgian choral conductor

Apr 13, 2015: Marianne Basner (1930-2015), German soprano

Mar 28, 2015: Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015), British composer and pianist

Mar 24, 2015: Oleg Bryjak (1960-2015), Kazakhstanian bass

Mar 22, 2015: Norman Scribner (1936-2015), American organist, conductor, and composer

Mar 19, 2015: Peter Katin (1930-2015), English pianist

Feb 25, 2015: Grace Reginald-Scott (1927-2015), American mezzo-soprano

Feb 23, 2015: Thomas Hilbish (1918-2015), American choral conductor and music pedagogue

Feb 15, 2015: Gustaf Sjökvist (1943-2015), Swedish conductor

Feb 14, 2015: Agnelle Bundervoët (1922-2015), French pianist

Feb 1, 2015: Aldo Ciccolini (1925-2015), Italian-born French pianist

Jan 26, 2015: Beverly Brown Rolfsrud (1920-2015), American contralto and music teacher

Jan 22, 2015: Louis Devos (1926-2015), Belgian tenor

Jan 21, 2015: Waldemar Kmentt (1929-2015), Austrian Tenor

Jan 19, 2015: Ward Swingle (1927-2015), American musical director, arranger and tenor

Jan 12, 2015: Elena Obraztsova (1939-2015), Russian mezzo-soprano

Jan 12, 2015: Géza Oberfrank (1936-2015), Hungarian conductor

Jan 6, 2015: Myrtha Garbarini (1926-2015), Argentine soprano

2014:

Dec 27, 2014: Claude Frank (1925-2014), German-born, American pianist

Dec 8, 2014: Knut Nystedt (1915-2014), Norwegian orchestral and choral composer

Dec 7, 2014: Mallory Walker (1935-2014), American tenor

Dec 6, 2014: Christian Ashley-Botha (1944-2014), South African choral conductor

Nov 14, 2014: William H. Scheide (1914-2014), American musical director and musicologist

Sep 28, 2014: Jakob Stämpfli (1934-2014), Swiss bass-baritone

Sep 24, 2014: Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014), English harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist

Sep 8, 2014: Magda Olivero (1910-2014), Italian soprano

Sep 5, 2014: Anny Felbermayer (1927-2014), Austrian soprano

Aug 31, 2014: Heiner Hopfner (1941-2014), German tenor

Aug 13, 2014: Frans Brüggen (1934-2014), Dutch conductor, recorder player and Baroque flautist

Aug 7, 2014: Cristina Deutekom (1931-2014), Dutch soprano

Jul 15, 2014: Dirk Snellings (1959-2014), Belgian bass

Jul 13, 2014: Lorin Maazel (1930-2014), French-born American conductor and violinist

Jul 4, 2014: Myer Fredman (1932-2014), British-Australian conductor and arranger

Jun 30, 2014: Howard Karp (1929-2014), American pianist and music pedagogue

Jun 12, 2014: Lilian Benningsen (1924-2014), Austrian mezzo-soprano/contralto

May 29, 2014: Gerda Schriever (1928-2014), German mezzo-soprano/contralto

May 19, 2014: Franz-Paul Decker (1923-2014), German-born Canadian conductor

Apr 26, 2014: Lynn Rasmussen Owen (1933-2014), American soprano and voice teacher

Apr 18, 2014: Brian Priestman (1927-2014), English conductor and music educator

Apr 10, 2014: Jean Halliday (1927-2014), American soprano

Apr 7, 2014: John Shirley-Quirk (1931-2014), English bass-baritone

Apr 7, 2014: Madeleine Malraux (1914-2014), French pianist

Mar 22, 2014: Joel B. Hayden (1922-2014), American choral conductor, music pedagogue and composer

Mar 17, 2014: Annette de la Bije (1927-2014), Dutch soprano

Mar 16, 2014: Ira Schantz (1922-2014), American tenor and voice teacher

Mar 11, 2014: Pavel Rivils (1936-2014), Moldavian Soviet composer

Mar 4, 2014: Lieuwe Visser (1940-2014), Dutch bass-baritone

Feb 24, 2014: Anna Reynolds (1930-2014), English mezzo-soprano

Feb 15, 2014: Dénes Zsigmondy (1922-2014), Hungarian violinist

Feb 14, 2014: Martha Goldstein (1919-2014), American harpsichordist and pianist

Feb 11, 2014: Alice Babs (1924-2014), Swedish Soprano & Jazz/Pop-Singer

Feb 3, 2014: Walter Heinz Bernstein (1922-2014), German harpsichordist and organist

Feb 2, 2014: Gerd Albrecht (1935-2014), German conductor

Jan 31, 2014: Melvin Dickinson (1936-2014), American conductor, music educator and concert organist

Jan 28, 2014: Petrina Kruse (1927-2014), German soprano

Jan 20, 2014: Claudio Abbado (1933-2014), Italian conductor

Jan 9, 2014: Timothy Penrose (1949-2014), English counter-tenor

2013:

Dec 29, 2013: Mary Evelyn Bruce (1934-2013), American soprano and music teacher

Dec 26, 2013: Maarten Kooij (1927-2013), Dutch conductor and organist

Dec 6, 2013: Tom Krause (1934-2013), Finnish bass-baritone

Nov 25, 2013: Oralia Dominguez (1925-2013), Mexican contralto

Nov 8, 2013: Arnold Rosner (1945-2013), American composer

Nov 4, 2013: Herbert Brauer (1915-2013), German lyric baritone

Sep 24, 2013: Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (1919-2013), German tenor and conductor, former Thomaskantor

Sep 23, 2013: Sally Le Sage (1937-2013), English soprano and singing teacher

Sep 18, 2013: Lisa Otto (1919-2013), German soprano

Sep 10, 2013: Felicity Smith (1979-2013), New Zealander mezzo-soprano

Jul 22, 2013: Kornél Zempléni (1922-2013), Hungarian pianist and university teacher.

Jun 18, 2013: Alfred Planyavsky (1924-2013), Austrian double-bassist, music historian and tenor

Jun 16, 2013: Richard Marlow (1939-2013), English choral conductor and organist

Jun 16, 2013: Johannes Eschen (1928-2013), German choral Conducto and music therapist

Jun 5, 2013: Franz Kelch ( 1915-2013), German bass-baritone

May 26, 2013: Olga Iglesias (1929-2013), Puerto Rican soprano

May 22, 2013: Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), French composer

Apr 28, 2013: Markus Müller (1953-2013), German Tenor

Apr 17, 2013: Bernhard Krol (1920-2013), German composer and arranger

Apr 15, 2013: Jean-François Pailliard (1928-2013), French conductor and musicologist

Apr 14, 2013: Colin Davis (1927-2013), English conductor

Apr 11, 2013: Thomas Hemsley (1927-2013), English baritone

Apr 8, 2013: Wolfgang Helbich (1943-2013), German conductor

Mar 1, 2013: Rafael Puyana (1931-2013), Colombian harpsichordist

Feb 26, 2013: Marie-Claire Alain (1926-2013), French organist and pedagogue

Feb 22, 2013: Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013), German conductor and pianist

Feb 16, 2013: Hans Koppenburg (1932-2013), German music editor and conductor

Feb 16, 2013: Eric Ericson (1918-2013), Swedish conductor

Feb 12, 2013: Kurt Redel (1918-2013), German flautist, conductor and arranger

Feb 9, 2013: Irma Rogell (1918-2013), American harpsichordist

Feb 8, 2013: David Lloyd (1920-2013), American tenor, music pedagogue and company manager

Jan 27, 2013: William Doppmann (1934-2013), American pianist and composer

Jan 15, 2013: Yuli Turovsky (1939-2013), Russian-born Canadian cellist, conductor and teacher

Jan 10, 2013: Franz Lehrndorfer (1928-2013), Austrian-born German organist and composer

Jan 9, 2013: Willis Page (1918-2013), American conductor

Jan 7, 2013: Horst Günter (1913-2013), German Baritone

Jan 5, 2013: Sybil Michelow (1925-2013), South-African contralto/mezzo-soprano

Jan 4, 2013: Charles van Tassel (1937-2013), American-Dutch bass-baritone

Jan 4, 2013: Archie Kliewer (1922-2013), American tenor and music pedagogue

2012:

Dec 28, 2012: John Carol Case (1923-2012), English baritone and music pedagogue

Dec 20, 2012: Victor Merzhanov (1919-2012), Russian pianist and music pedagogue

Dec 9, 2012: Charles Rosen (1927-2012), American pianist and music theorist

Dec 5, 2012: Dave Brubeck (1928-2012), American Jazz pianist, composer and bandleader

Nov 28, 2012: Rainer van Husen (1944-2012), German Tenor

Nov 28, 2012: Franco Ventriglia (1922-2012), American Bass

Nov 27, 2012: Jan Maegaard (1926-2012), Danish composer

Nov 18, 2012: Philip Ledger (1937-2012), English conductor, organist, harpsichordist, pianist, editor and arranger

Nov 1, 2012: Egon Hoss, German tenor and singing teacher

Sep 29, 2012: Joke Anjewierden (1963-2012), Dutch mezzo-soprano

Sep 18, 2012: Leo Goeke (1937-2012), American tenor

Sep 15, 2012: Alan Crabb (1942-2012), Welsh-born American tenor

Sep 2, 2012: Rudolf Scholz (1933-2012), Austria organist and conductor

Aug 29, 2012: Anna de Cavalieri (real name: Anne McKnight) (1924-2012), American soprano

Aug 17, 2012: Mary Yungkurth (1930-2012), American mezzo-soprano

Aug 16, 2012: Bystrík Režucha (1935-2012), Slovak condu

Aug 11, 2012: Carlo Curley (1935-2012), American organist

Aug 6, 2012: Ruggiero Ricci (1918-2012), American violinist

Jul 24, 2012: Florence Kopleff (1924-2012), American contralto

Jul 22, 2012: Nan Merriman (1920-2012), American mezzo-soprano

Jul 9, 2012: Tim Cross (1955-2012), keyboardist, producer, arranger and songwriter

Jul 6, 2012: Siegfried Stöckigt (1929-2012), German pianist and composer

Jul 1, 2012: Evelyn Lear (1926-2012), American Soprano

Jun 24, 2012: Franz Crass (1928-2012), German bass-baritone

Jun 18, 2012: Calvin Marsh (1921-2012), American baritone

May 28, 2012: Judith Nelson (1939-2012), American Soprano

May 22, 2012: Gerd Reinfeldt, German choral conductor (1919-2012)

May 19, 2012: Tamara Brooks (1941-2012), American conductor and music pedagogue

May 18, 2012: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012), German bass-baritone and conductor

May 16, 2012: Maria Bieshu (1934-2012), Moldavian soprano

May 8, 2012: Roman Totenberg (1911-2012), Polish-born American violinist and pedagogue

Apr 16, 2012: Alan Hacker (1938-2012), English clarinettist and conductor

Apr 13, 2012: Margarita Lilova (1935-2012), Bulgarian mezzo-soprano

Mar 16, 2012: Dieter Zechlin (1926-2012), German pianist

Mar 14, 2012: Margarete Sjöstedt (1923-2012), Swedish contralto

Feb 11, 2012: Grace-Lynne Martin (1929-2012), American soprano

Feb 10, 2012: Hein Meens (1944-2012), Dutch tenor and conductor

Feb 1, 2012: Gerhard Bosse (1922-2012), German violinist and conductor

Jan 16, 2012: Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012), Dutch organist, harpsichordist, conductor and pedagogue

Jan 8, 2012: Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012), Jewish-born, French pianist of Bulgarian birth

Jan 2, 2012: Helmut Müller-Brühl, German conductor (1933-2012)

2011:

Dec 25, 2011: Rodney Gisick (1944-2011), American baritone

Dec 21, 2011: Glen Lockery (1918-2011), Amrican tenor and choral conductor

Nov 23, 2011: Charles de Wolff, (1932-2011), Dutch conductor and organist

Nov 22, 2011: Sena Jurinac (1921-2011), Yugoslav-Austrian soprano

Oct 15, 2011: Jānis Dūmiņš (1922-2011), Latvian choral conductor

Sep 21, 2011: Marcel Bitsch (1921-2011), French composer

Sep 17, 2011: Kurt Sanderling (1912-2011), German conductor

Sep 9, 2011: Dušan Trbojević (1925-2011), Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and music pedagogue

Sep 2, 2011: Nancy Burns (1940-2011), American soprano

Aug 2, 2011: Ralph Berkowitz (1910-2011), American composer and painter

Aug 11, 2011: José-Luis García (1944-2011), Spanish violinist and conductor

Jul 21, 2011: Sigi Stadermann (1923-2011), German-born Israeli conductor

Jul 10, 2011: Pierrette Alarie (1921-2011), Canadian soprano

Jul 6, 2011: Josef Suk (1926-2011), Czech violinist, violist and conductor

Jul 4, 2011: Gerhard Unger (1916-2011), German tenor

Jun 8, 2011: Lieselotte Rebmann (1935-2011), German soprano

May 23, 2011: Juliette Bise (1923, 2011), Swiss soprano and singing teacher

May 17, 2011: Bruce Haynes (1942-2011), American-born Canadian oboist, recorder player and musicologist

Apr 24, 2011: Johan van der Meer (1913-2011), Dutch conductor

Mar 29, 2011: Robert Tear (1928-2011), Welsh tenor and conductor

Mar 28, 2011: Lee Hoiby (1926-2011), American composer and pianist

Mar 25, 2011: Karl-Heinz Lippe (1927-2011), German baritone

Mar 12, 2011: Margrit Caspari (1928-2011), German (?) contralto

Mar 6, 2011: Howard Milner (1953-2011), English tenor and singing teacher

Mar 3, 2011: August Messthaler (1920-2011), Austrian-German bass

Mar 3, 2011: Aldo Clementi (1925-2011), Italian Composer

Mar 1, 2011: Tatiana Shebanova (1953-2011), Russian pianist

Feb 15, 2011: Sidney Harth (1925-2011), American violinist, conductor and music pedagogue

Feb 12, 2011: Sofia Cosma (1914-2011), Belarusian-born American pianist

Feb 10, 2011: Blanche Honegger-Moyse (1909-2011), Swiss-born American conductor and violinist

Feb 5, 2011: Beatrice Krebs (1924-2011), American mezzo-soprano

Feb 3, 2011: Herbert Gadsch (1913-2011), German church musician and composer

Feb 1, 2011: Johannes Somary (1935-2011), Swiss-born American organist, conductor and composer

Jan 31, 2011: Philipp Naegele (1928-2011), German-born American violinist, conductor and music pedagogue

Jan 10, 2011: Liana Alexandra (1947-2011), Romanian composer

Jan 8, 2011: Hans Ulrich Engelmann (1921-2011), German composer

2010:

Dec 29, 2010: Gilbert Brungardt (1930-2010), American choral conductor and music pedagogue

Dec 27, 2010: Maureen Lehane (1932-2010), English mezzo-soprano

Dec 24, 2010: Nigel Williams (1962-2010), Irish bass-baritone and book seller

Dec 20, 2010: John Alldis (1929-2010), English choral conductor

Dec 16, 2010: Richard Adeney, English flautist (1920-2010)

Dec 15, 2010: Hilde Rössel-Majdan (1921-2010), Austrian contralto

Dec 12, 2010: Jacob Lateiner (1928-2010), Cuban-born American pianist

Dec 11, 2010: Herrad Wehrung (1925-2010), German soprano and academic voice teacher

Dec 8, 2010: Paul Shure (1921-2010), American conductor and violinist

Dec 7, 2010: Sergiu Luca (1943-2010), Romanian-born American violinist, conductor and pedagogue

Dec 6, 2010: Hugues Cuénod (1902-2010), Swiss tenor

Dec 1, 2010: Helen Boatwright (1916-2010), American soprano and teacher

Nov 21, 2010: Jeanne Bovet (1917-2010), Swiss pianist

Nov 21, 2010: Almeida Prado (1943-2010), Brazilian composerand pianist

Nov 5, 2010: Shirley Verrett (1931-2010), American soprano/mezzo-soprano

Nov 2, 2010: Rudolf Barshai (1924-2010), Russian conductor

Oct 13, 2010: Ulrik Cold (1939-2010), Danish bass

Oct 10, 2010: Joan Sutherland (1926-2010), Australian soprano

Sep 19, 2010: László Polgar (1947-2010), Hungarian bass

Sep 12, 2010: Gerard Dekker (1931-2010), Dutch harpsichordist and organist

Aug 26, 2010: Eduardo Ayas (1957-2010), Argentine tenor

Aug 11, 2010: Viktorie Švihlíková (1915-2010), Ukrainian-born Czech pianist and harpsichordist

Jul 31, 2010: George Shangrow (1951-2010), American conductor, keyboard player and teacher

Jul 28, 2010: Araksiya Davtyan (1949-2010), Armenian soprano and vocal pedagogue

Jul 21, 2010: Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, (1940-2010), English tenor

Jul 17, 2010: Henk Smit (1932-2010), Dutch bass

Jul 14, 2010: Charles Mackerras (1925-2010), American-born (of Australian parents) Australian conductor

Jul 4, 2010: Tobias Hiller (1966-2010), German conductor

Jun 25, 2010: Peter-Christoph Runge (1933-2010), German baritone

Jun 16, 2010: Maureen Forrester (1930-2010), Canadian contralto, teacher and administrator

May 28, 2010: David Sanger (1947-2010), English organist and harpsichordist

May 14, 2010: János Sándor, Hungarian-born Canadian conductor

May 12, 2010: David Randolph (1914-2010), American conductor and teacher

May 5, 2010: Peter Ziethen (1942-2010), German bass

May 4, 2010: Paul Dieke (1936-2010), American tenor

Apr 30, 2010: Lois Varga (1926-2010), American mezzo-soprano

Apr 29, 2010: Johannes Fritsch (1941-2010), German composer

Apr 28, 2010: Chloë Owen (1918-2010), American soprano and music pedagogue

Apr 25, 2010: Joanna Griscom (1932-2010), American soprano

Apr 9, 2010: Kenneth McKellar (1927-2010), Scottish tenor

Mar 23, 2010: Blanche Thebom (1918-2010), American mezzo-soprano

Mar 22, 2010: Stjepan Radić (1928-2010), Croatian pianist

Mar 18, 2010: Alva Tripp (1937-2010), American tenor

Mar 5, 2010: Philip Langridge (1939-2010), English tenor

Feb 25, 2010: Oscar Ravina (1930-2010), Polish-born American violinist, violin teacher and concert-master

Feb 18, 2010: Max Lyall (1939-2010), American pianist, tenor and music pedagogue

Feb 18, 2010: Richard Proulx (1937-2010), American composer, choral conductor and organist

Jan 31, 2010: Jürg Baur (1918-2010), German composer and teacher.

Jan 23, 2010: Earl Wild (1915-2010), American pianist

Jan 21, 2010: Camille Maurane (1911-2010), French baritone

2009:

Dec 14, 2009: Gebhard Kaiser (1921-2009), German choral conductor, organist and church musician

Nov 27, 2009: György Melis (1923-2009), Hungarian baritone

Nov 19, 2009: Annie Delorie (1925-2009), Dutch contralto

Nov 16, 2009: Walter Ehrest (1918-2009), American choral conductor and arranger

Nov 9, 2009: Gerhard Goebel (1932-2009), writer, philologist and composer

Nov 3, 2009: Erik Saedén (1924-2009), Swedish bass-baritone

Nov 2, 2009: John Fodi (1944-2009), Hungarian-born Canadian composer

Oct 7, 2009: Helen Watts (1927-2009), Welsh mezzo-soprano/contralto

Sep 25, 2009: Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009), Spanish pianist and composer

Sep 1, 2009: Erich Kunzel (1935-2009), American Conductor

Aug 20, 2009: Geoffrey Tozer (1954-2009), Indian-born Australian pianist

Aug 18, 2009: Hildegard Behrens (1937-2009), German opera singer

Jul 31, 2009: Boris Carmeli (1928-2009), Polish-born Italian bass,

Jul 27, 2009: George Russell (1923-2009), American composer

Jul 24, 2009: Friedrich Goldmann (1941-2009), German composer, conductor and arranger

Jul 10, 2009: Edward Downes (1924-2009), English conductor

Jul 8, 2009: Fredric Moses (1943-2009), American baritone and music pedagogue

Jul 1, 2009: Sophie Ginn (1933-2009), American soprano and music teacher

Jun 27, 2009: Arjan Blanken (1924-2009), Dutch tenor

Jun 22, 2009: Betty Allen (1927-2009), American mezzo-soprano

May 10, 2009: Gerhard Wilhelm (1918-2009), German choral conductor

May 7, 2009: Jerald Lepinski (1930-2009), American bass and choral conductor

May 5, 2009: Richard Miller (1926-2009), American tenor and music teacher

May 3, 2009: Jeannette van Dijck (1925-2009), Dutch soprano

Apr 22, 2009: Dietrich Erdmann (1917-2009), German composer

Apr 1, 2009: Margreta Elkins (1930-2009), Australian mezzo-soprano

Mar 19, 2009: Ezio Flagello (1931-2009), American bass

Feb 11, 2009: Hildegard Laurich (1941-2009), German contralto

Feb 1, 2009: Lukas Foss (1922-2009), American pianist, conductor and composer

Jan __, 2009: Nani Landau (???-2009), Argentine soprano

Jan __, 2009: Margarete Ast (1929-2009), German mezzo-soprano

Jan 24, 2009: Ewald Kooiman (1938-2009), Dutch organist

Jan 9, 2009: Franko Richmond (1949-2009), American pianist, composer and music teacher

2008:

Dec __, 2008: Darren Fox (1967-2008), English tenor

Dec 31, 2008: Tessa Bonner (1951-2008), English soprano

Dec 17, 2008: Raymond Trouard (1916-2008): French pianist

Dec 7, 2008: Sister Mary-Elaine Gentemann (1909-2008), American composer, arranger and music teacher

Dec 6, 2008: Frederick Guthrie (1924-2008), American bass

Dec 2, 2008: Ellen Faull (1918-2008), American soprano and voice teacher

Nov 29, 2008: Uwe Gronostay (1939-2008), German choral conductor and composer

Nov 23, 2008: Richard Hickox (1948-2008), English conductor

Nov 17, 2008: Hanswolf Scriba (1927-2008), German church musician, choral conductor and organist

Nov 1, 2008: Wim van Gerven (???-2008): Dutch tenor and choral conductor

Oct 30, 2008: Thomas Dunn (1925-2008), American conductor

Sep 26, 2008: Bernadette Greevy (1940-2008), Irish mezzo-soprano

Sep 18, 2008: Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), Argentine-German composer

Sep 16, 2008: Andrei Volkonsky (1933-2008), Swiss-born Russian composer, conductor and harpsichordist

Sep 12, 2008: Marjorie Thomas (1923-2008), English contralto

Aug 29, 2008: William Appling (1932-2008), American conductor, pianist, arranger and educator

Aug 25, 2008: Robert Bass (1953-2008), American conductor

Aug 4, 2008: Nicola Rescigno (1916-2008), Italian-American conductor

Aug 1, 2008: John Ferris (1926-2008), American choral conductor and organnist

Jul __, 2008: Edward Kmiciewicz (1934-2008), Polish bass

Jul 29, 2008: Eula Beal (1919-2008): American contralto

Jul 26, 2008: Grace Hoffman (1921-2008), American mezzo-soprano

Jul 20, 2008: Aladar Janes (1917-2008), Italian conductor

Jul 1, 2008: Letty de Jong (1936-2008), Dutch soprano

Jun 27, 2008: Jaap Hillen (1923-2008), Dutch choral conductor and organist

Jun 11, 2008: John van Kesteren (1921-2008), Dutch tenor,

May __, 2008, Leonardo Wolovsky (1923-2008), American bass-baritone

May 25, 2008: Torsten Wirth (1980-2008), German choral conductor and organist

May 12, 2008: Marianne [Marjanne] Kweksilber (1944-2008), Dutch soprano

May 8, 2008: Hugh McElrath (1921-2008), American bass and music pedagogue

Apr 26, 2008: Henry Brant (1913-2008), Canadian-born American composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist

Apr 24, 2008: Tristram Cary (1925-2008), English-born Australian composer and arranger

Apr 23, 2008: Walter Schenkman (1924-2008), American pianist and music pedagogue

Apr 8, 2008: Loren Driscoll (1928-2008), American tenor

Apr 3, 2008: Jean Carlton (1918-2008), American soprano

Mar 23, 2008: Edith Kilbuck (1931-2008), American harpsichordist and music pedagogue

Mar 21, 2008: John Noble (1931-2008): English baritone

Mar 12, 2008: Linda DeBrita (1954-2008), Amrerican harpist

Feb 20, 2008: Richard Westenburg (1932-2008), American choral conductor

Feb 13, 2008: Lars Sellergren (1927-2008), Swediah pianist

Feb 10, 2008: Inga Nielsen (1946-2008), Danish soprano

Jan 31, 2008: Giorgio Tadeo (1929-2008): Italian bass

Jan 18, 2008: Francis James Brown (1925-2008), American-born English composer and arranger

Jan 14, 2008: Joseph Payne (1941-2008), English harpsichordist, organist, and clavicembalist

Jan 7, 2008: Detlef Kraus (1919-2008), German pianist

2007:

___ __, 2007: James Loomis (1925-2007), American bass

Dec 10, 2007: Robert Moevs (1920-2007), American composer and teacher

Dec 9, 2007: Sophia van Sante (1925-2007), Dutch mezzo-soprano, contralto

Dec 4, 2007: Zara Dolukhanova (1918-2007), Armenian mezzo-soprano and contralto,

Dec 3, 2007: Erich Piasetzki (1932-2007), German organist and church musician

Nov 14, 2007: Craig Smith (1947-2007), American conductor

Nov 13, 2007: Erik Kurmangaliev (1959-2007), Kazakhstan-born counter-tenor,

Nov 6, 2007: Gert Lutze (1917-2007), German tenor

Oct 10, 2007: Alexander Bakhchiev (1930-2007), Russian pianist and teacher

Oct 5, 2007: Fernando Rosas (1931-2007), Chilean conductor

Oct 3, 2007: Blanche Foreman (1945-2007), American mezzo-soprano and music pedagogue

Sep 22, 2007: Albert Fuller (1926-2007), American harpsichordist, conductor, teacher and author

Sep 6, 2007: Richard Robinson (1929-2007), Canadian-born American tenor

Sep 1, 2007: Leopold Egerinsky (1928-2007), American conductor, pianist, lecturer, teacher and arranger

Aug 30, 2007: Helmut Krebs (1913-2007), German tenor and counter-tenor

Aug 4, 2007: Ruth Zechlin (1926-2007), German composer, harpsichordist and organist

Aug 2, 2007: Joszéf Moldvay (1941-2007), Hungarian baritone

Jul 28, 2007: Theo Altmeyer (1931-2007), German tenor

Jul 17, 2007: Teresa Stich-Randall (1927-2007), American soprano

Jun 12, 2007: Mac Morgan (1917-2007), American bass-baritone

Apr 27, 2007: Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), Russian cellist and conductor

Mar 27, 2007: Wojtek [Wociech] Drabowicz (1966-2007), Polish baritone

Mar 22, 2007: Janice Harsányi (1929-2007), American soprano and music teacher

Mar 17, 2007: Ernst Haefliger (1919-2007), Swiss tenor

Mar 13, 2007: Hans Thamm (1921-2007), German conductor

Mar 11, 2007: Walter Blankenheim (1926-2007), German pianist and teacher

Feb 28, 2007: Louis van der Paal (1905-2007), Belgian harpsichordist

Feb 19, 2007: Melvin Brown (1939?-2007), American tenor and choral conductor

Feb 14, 2007: Gordon Wright (1934-2007), American conductor

Feb 5, 2007: John Beckett (1927-2007), Irish musician, composer and conductor

Jan 29, 2007: Laurence Boulay (1925-2007), French harpsichordist, researcher and pedagogue

Jan 25, 2007: Enrica Cavallo-Gulli (1921-2007), Italian pianist

Jan 20, 2007: Sandor Salgo (1909-2007), Hungarian-born American conductor, violinist and scholar

Jan 1, 2007: Werner Hollweg (1936-2007), German tenor

2006:

Dec 30, 2006: Hans Hauptmann (1919-2006), German bass

Dec 18, 2006: Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006), American composer, organist, choral conductor, and teacher,

Dec 16, 2006: Pnina Salzman (1922-2006), Israeli pianist

Dec 11, 2006: Leonard L. Riccinto (1941-2006), American choral conductor and music teacher

Nov 29 2006: Nina Milkina (1919-2006), Russian-born pianist

Nov 28, 2006: Martha Lipton (1913-2006), American mezzo-soprano and music pedagogue

Nov 21, 2006: René Gerber (1908-2006), Swiss composer and arranger

Nov 2, 2006: Jean Fisher (1918-2006), American mezzo-soprano

Sep 2, 2006: Karl Engel (1923-2006), Swiss pianist and pedagogue

Aug 23, 2006: Ruth Guldbaek (1924-2006), Dane soprano

Aug 14, 2006: Léopold Simoneau (1916-2006), Canadian tenor, music pedagogue and administrator

Aug 3, 2006: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006), German-born English soprano

Aug 1, 2006: Eva Haßbecker (1932-2006), German soprano

Jul 25, 2006: James Schwabacher (1920-2006), American tenor

Jul 23, 2006: John Mack (1927-2006), American oboist

Jul 3, 2006: Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson (1954-2006), American mezzo-soprano

Jul 3, 2006: Peter Schwarz (1936-2006), German choral conductor, organist, music pedagogue and musicologist

Jun 20, 2006: Maurice Bevan (1921-2006), English baritone

Jun __, 2006: Walter Koller (1938-2006), German baritone

Jun 4, 2006: Richard Kapp (1946-2006), American conductor

May 28, 2006: Pauline Law (1935-2006), American contralto

May 28, 2006: Edward Aldwell (1938-2006), American pianist

May 27, 2006: Dieter Acker (1940-2006), Romanian-born German composer and music pedagogue

May 23, 2006: Werner Jacob (1938-2006), German organist and composer

May 7, 2006: Jan Simons (1925-2006), German-born Canadian baritone

Apr 24, 2006: Erik Bergman (1911-2006), Finnish composer, conductor, music critic and pedagogue

Apr 20, 2006: Zachary Novak (1980-2006), American tenor,

Apr 20, 2006: Georgina Joshi (1981-2006), American soprano

Apr 20, 2006: Chris Carducci (1978-2006), American baritone,

Feb 14, 2006: Benjamin Matthews (1933-2006), American bass-baritone

Jan 28, 2006: Herta Glaz (1910-2006), Austrian-born American contralto

Jan 22, 2006: Rick van der Linden (1946-2006), Dutch composer, Rock musician and keyboardist

Jan 20, 2006: Karl-Christian Kohn (1928-2006), German bass

2005:

Dec 29, 2005: Elizabeth Parcells (1951-2005), American soprano

Dec 24, 2005: Constance Keene (1921-2005), American pianist

Dec 20, 2005: Derek Hudson (1934-2005), English-born conductor

Dec 9, 2005: György Sándor (1912-2005), Hungarian-born American pianist and teacher

Dec 9, 2005: Eunice Norton (1908-2005), American pianist

Dec 7, 2005: James Bastien (1937-2005), American piano pedagogue and arranger

Dec 5, 2005: Ursula Buckel (1926-2005), German soprano

Nov 29, 2005: Deon van der Walt (1958-2005), South African tenor

Nov 22, 2005: Frank Brieff (1912-2005), American violist and conductor

Nov 14, 2005: Jenö Takács (1902-2005), Hungarian-Austrian composer, pianist teacher and ethnomusicologist

Nov 10, 2005: Richard Edlinger (1958-2005), Austrian conductor

Oct 17, 2005: Wayne Rapier (1930-2005), American oboist

Oct 17, 2005: Robert-Alexander Bohnke (1927-2005), German pianist and music teacher

Sep 17, 2005: Alfred Reed (1921-2005), American composer, arranger, conductor and editor

Sep 6, 2005: Robert Bernard (1926-2005), American bass and voice teacher

Sep 1, 2005: Stefania Woytowicz (1922-2005), Polish soprano

Aug 27, 2005: Suze van Grootel (1953-2005), Dutch soprano

Aug 14, 2005: Beverly Wolff (1928-2005), American mezzo-soprano

Aug 2, 2005: Margrit Conrad-Amberg (1918-2005), Swiss contralto

Jul 7, 2005: Richard Verreau (1926-2005), Canadian tenor

Jul 7, 2005: Amando Blanquer Ponsoda (1935-2005), Spanish composer and music pedagogue

Jun 26, 2005: Grete Sultan (1906-2005), German-born American pianist

Jun 24, 2005: Hans Kann (1927-2005), Austrian pianist, music pedagogue and composer

Jun 24, 2005: Peter Heilbut (1920-2005), German music pedagogue, composer and a pianist

Jun 13, 2005: David Diamond (1915-2005), American composer

Jun 3, 2005: Hetty Plümacher (1919-2005), German mezzo-soprano/contralto

May 29, 2005: George Rochberg (1918-2005), American composer

May 25, 2005: Ruth Laredo (1937-2005), American pianist

May 15, 2005: Amadeus Webersinke (1920-2005), German German pianist and organist

Mar 28, 2005: Moura Lympany (1916-2005), English pianist

Mar 27, 2005: Grant Johannesen (1921-2005), American pianist and pedagogue

Mar 15, 2005: Emmanuel Koch (1930-2005), Belgian violinist and conductor

Mar 5, 2005: Sergiu Comissiona (1928-2005), Romanian-born Israeli-American conductor and violinist

Feb 16, 2005: Marcello Viotti (1954-2005), Swiss-Italian conductor and director of opera

Feb 13, 2005: Sixten Ehrling (1918-2005), Swedish conductor

Feb 8, 2005: Helmut Eder (1916-2005), Austrian composer and conductor

Feb 6, 2005: Lazar Berman (1930-2005), Russian pianist

Feb 1, 2005: Franco Mannino (1924-2005), Italian pianist, composer and arranger

Jan 20, 2005: Jan Pasveer (1933-2005), Dutch choral conductor, church musician, organist and music educator

Jan 15, 2005: Victoria de Los Angeles (1923-2005), Spanish soprano

Jan 15, 2005: Laura Alvini (1946-2005), Italian harpsichordist

2004:

___ __, 2004: Hugo Steurer (1914-2004), German pianist and music teacher.

Dec 11, 2004: William Albimoor (1924-2004), Belgian composer, arranger and pianist

Dec 15, 2004: David Nott (1934-), American conductor and music teacher

Nov 19, 2004: Turan-Mirza Kamal (1951-2004), American guitarist

Nov 16, 2004: Massimo Freccia (1906-2004), Italian-born American conductor

Nov 12, 2004: Frederik Prausnitz (1920-2004), German-born American conductor and music teacher

Oct 28, 2004: Gertrud Burgsthaler-Schuster (1916-2004), Austrian contralto and singing teacher

Oct 16, 2004: Anton Dikov (1938-2004), Bulgarian pianist

Oct 7, 2004: Takahiro Sonoda (1928-2004), Japanese pianist

Oct 2, 2004: Richard Chapline (1922-2004), American baritone

Sep 24, 2004: Joep Straesser (1934-2004), Dutch composer and organist

Sep 22, 2004: Georg Jelden (1928-2004), German tenor (and baritone)

Sep 12, 2004: Richard Lane (1933-2004), American composer, arranger and pianist

Sep 8, 2004: Adinda de Nijs (1947-2004), Dutch soprano

Sep 2, 2004: Kieth Engen (1925-2004), American bass

Aug 31, 2004: Maja Weis-Osborn (1919-2004), German soprano

Aug 29, 2004: Hans Vonk (1942-2004), Dutch conductor and music pedagogue

Aug 17, 2004: Gérard Souzay (1918-2004), French bass-baritone

Jul 23, 2004: Ferry Gruber (1926-2004), Austrian tenor

Jul 5, 2004: Tapani Valtasaari (1941-2004), Finnish baritone

Jul 4, 2004: Jean-Marie Auberson (1920-2004), Swiss-born conductor and violinist

Jun 25, 2004: Margot Guilleaume (1910-2004), German soprano

Jun 18, 2004: Wilhelm Pommerien (1932-2004), German bass

Jun 14, 2004: Trudeliese Schmidt (1941-2004), German mezzo-soprano/contralto

Jun 10, 2004: Jocelyne Taillon (1941-2004), French contralto

Jun 8, 2004: Ernst Gerold Schramm (1938-2004), German baritone

May 29, 2004: Charles Joseph (1935-2004), American bass

May 16, 2004: William Wildermann (1919-2004), German-born American bass-baritone

May 10, 2004: Michael Rippon (1938-2004), English bass

Apr 30, 2004: Boris Pergamenschikow (1948-2004), Russian cellist

Apr 29, 2004: Emil Klein (1955-2004), Romanian conductor and cellist

Apr 19, 2004: Wolfgang Unger (1948-2004), German conductor

Apr 10, 2004: Mary Margaret Dundore (1928-2004), American soprano and music pedagogue

Apr 5, 2004: Diane Tobola (1941-2004), American soprano

Mar 18, 2004: Erna Spoorenberg (1926-2004), Dutch soprano

Feb 8, 2004: Nicholas Goldschmidt (1908-2004), Moravian-born Canadian conductor, administrator, music teacher, baritone and pianist

2003:

Dec 31, 2003: Sieglinde Wagner (1921-2003), German contralto

Dec 28, 2003: Henning Frederichs (1936-2003), German composer, conductor and a music paedagogue

Dec 23, 2003: John Sanders (1933-2003), English organist, conductor, choir trainer and composer

Dec 8, 2003: Hans Hotter (1909-2003), German bass-baritone,

Dec 2, 2003: John Brimhall (1928-2003), American musical arranger and author

Dec 5, 2003: Fernand Koenig (1922-2003), Luxembourgian bass-baritone

Dec 1, 2003: John Gillespie (1921-2003), American harpsichordist, pianist and music pedagogue

Nov 29, 2003: Rudi Martinus van Dijk (1932-2003), Dutch composer

Nov 26, 2003: Larry L. Fleming (1936-2003), American Choral conductor

Nov 23, 2003: Paul Matthen (1914-2003), American bass-baritone, music scholar and music pedagogue

Nov 17, 2003: Malcolm Hamilton (1932-2003), Canadian harpsichordist

Nov 5, 2003: David Bar-Illan (1930-2003), Israeli pianist

Oct 28, 2003: Emilia Petrescu (1925-2003), Romanian soprano

Oct 23, 2003: Eberhard Kraus (1931-2003), German harpsichordist and organist

Oct 10, 2003: Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), American pianist

Sep 4, 2003: Lola Bobesco (1921-2003), Romanian-born Belgian violinist

Aug 21, 2003: Piet Wiersma (1946-2003), Dutch organist

Aug 20, 2003: Hans Wilbrink (1933-2003), Dutch baritone

Jul 17, 2003: Rosalyn Tureck (1913-2003), American pianist

Jul 14, 2003: Gerhard Dickel (1938-2003), German conductor, organist, church musician and music pedagogue

May 27, 2003: Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Italian composer and arranger

May 15, 2003: Otto Edelmann (1917-2003), Austrian bass-baritone

May 3, 2003: Hanneke van Bork (1931-2003), Dutch soprano

Mar 19, 2003: Wolfgang Hofmann (1922-2003), German violinist, composer and conductor

Mar 5, 2003: Hans Heintze (1911-2003), German conductor, organist and church musician

Mar 4, 2003: Michel Block (1937-2003), Belgian pianist

Mar 1, 2003: Nadine Conner (1914-2003), American soprano

Feb 26, 2003: Ivan Marinov (1928-2003), Bulgarian composer and conductor

Jan 26, 2003: John Browning (1933-2003), American pianist

Jan 5, 2003: Pavel Kühn (1938-2003), Czech choral conductor

2002:

___ __, 2002: James Walker (1927-2002), English pianist, composer and arranger

___ __, 2002: Walter von Forster (1915-2002), German composer

___ __, 2002: Heinz Jansen (1906-2002), German violinist, violist, sound engineer and producer

Dec 24, 2002: Luciano Chailly (1920-2002), Italian music administrator, music teacher and composer

Nov 19, 2002: Caterina Micieli Robinson (1930-2002), American soprano and voice teacher

Oct 30, 2002: Rudolf Bruči (1917-2002), Serbian composer of Croatian origin

Oct 17, 2002: Horst Göbel (1924-2002), German pianist and harpsichordist

Sep 4, 2002: Vlado Perlemuter (1904-2002), Russian-born French pianist

Jun 7, 2002: Torsten Forslöw (1921-2002), Swedish tenor

Jun 5, 2002: Richard Nicklaus (1922-2002), American bass-baritone, voice teacher, acand composer

Jun 3, 2002: Ralph Hunter (1921-2002), American choral conductor

May 16, 2002: Joachim Blume (1923-2002), German composer

May 7, 2002: Monica Sinclair (1925-2002), English contralto

Mar 30, 2002: Yara Bernette (1920-2002), Jewish American-born Brazilian pianist

Mar 22, 2002: Rudolf Baumgartner (1917-2002), Swiss violinist and conductor

Mar 20, 2002: Thomas Mayer (1907-2002), German-born Austrian conductor

Mar 18, 2002: Gösta Winbergh (1943-2002), Swedish tenor

Feb 26, 2002: Maurice Gardner (1909-2002), American composer, arranger and violist

Feb 23, 2002: Robert Faris (1924-2002), American tenor

Jan 29, 2002: Heinz Hennig (1927-2002), German choral conductor

Jan 24, 2002: Igor Kipnis (1930-2002), American harpsichordist and fortepianist

Jan 30, 2002: Helmut Franz (1911-2002), German choral conductor

Jan 20, 2002: Michael Hammond (1932-2002), American conductor and music pedagogue

Mar 23, 2002: Eileen Farrell (1920-2002), American soprano

Aug 25, 2002: William Warfield (1920-2002), American baritone and music teacher

2001:

Dec 23, 2001: Vicente Gómez (1911-2001), Spanish-born American guitarist and arranger

Oct 28, 2001: Gerard Hengeveld (1910-2001), Dutch pianist, composer, and educator

Oct 28, 2001: Simon van der Geest (1935-2001), Dutch tenor

Oct 26, 2001: Jochanan Pniel (1928-2001), German-born Israeli baritone

Oct 19, 2001: Li Delun (1917-2001), Chinese musician and conductor,

Sep 22, 2001: Isaac Stern (1920-2001), USSR-born American violinist

Aug __, 2001: Werner Burkhardt (1921-2001), German choral conductor and church musician

Aug 10, 2001: Elsa Cavelti (1907-2001), Swiss mezzo-soprano

Jul __, 2001: David Galliver (1925-2001), English tenor

Jul 24, 2001: Willy van Hese (1923-2001), Belgian opera and concert singer

Jul 24, 2001: Charles Henderson (1917-2001), American conductor, organist and harpsichordist

Jun 6, 2001: Douglas Lilburn (1935-2001), New Zealander composer

Jun 20, 2001: Ernest Bour (1913-2001), French conductor

Jun 2, 2001: John Fesperman (1925-2001), American conductor and organist

May 21, 2001: Fritz Uhl (1928-2001), Austrian tenor

Apr 27, 2001: Fritz Wallenberg (1901-2001), German-born American cellist, conductor and music teacher

Apr 21, 2001: David Hollestelle (1916-2001), Dutch baritone

Apr 20, 2001: Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946-2001): Italian conductor and composer

Apr 19, 2001: Edith Picht-Axenfeld (1914-2001), German harpsichordist and pianist

Apr 9, 2001: Graziella Sciutti (1927-2001), Italian soprano

Mar 29, 2001: John Lewis (1920-2001), American jazz pianist and composer; musical director of Modern Jazz Quartet.

Mar 24, 2001: Boris Berlin (1907-2001), Russian-born Canadian piano teacher, composer and arranger

Feb 16, 2001: Boris Goldovsky (1908-2001), Russian-American pianist, conductor, arranger, opera producer, lecturer and broadcaster

Feb 1, 2001: Gaelin Gabora (1931-2001), Canadian soprano and music teacher

Jan 22, 2001: Philine Fischer (1919-2001), German soprano

Jan 20, 2001: Sylvia Rabinof (1913-2001), American a pianist, teacher, composer and arranger

2000:

___ __, 2000: Odette Turba-Rabier (1910-2000), French soprano

___ __, 2000: István Nádas (1922-2000), Hungarian pianist

___ __, 2000: Frederick Firth (1913-2000), English boy soprano

Dec 10, 2000: Teresa Sterne (1927-2000), American pianist and recording producer

Oct 30, 2000: Bernard Kruysen (1933-2000), Dutch baritone

Oct 27, 2000: Walter Berry (1929-2000): Austrian bass-baritone

Sep 22, 2000: Pearl Amster (1917-2000), American pianist and music teacher

Sep 16, 2000: David Shallon (1950-2000), Israeli conductor

Sep 7, 2000: Dietrich Knothe (1929-2000), German choral conductor

Aug 31, 2000: Nodar Gabunia (1933-2000), Georgian pianist and composer

Aug 20, 2000: Nancy Evans (1915-2000), English mezzo-soprano

Aug 17, 2000: Franco Donatoni (1927-2000), Italian composer and music pedagogue

Aug 10, 2000: Suzanne Danco (1911-2000), Belgian soprano (and mezzo-soprano)

Aug 5, 2000: Otto Wiener (1911-2000), Austrian bass-baritone and Bavarian Kammersänger<<<

Jul 25, 2000: Donald R. Frederick (1917-2000), American choral conductor, composer, arranger and music teacher

Jul 21, 2000: Iain Hamilton (1922-2000), Scottish composer and arranger

Jul 6, 2000: Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000), Polish-Jewish pianist, composer, and memoirist

Jun 30, 2000: Pièrre Colombo (1914-2000), Swiss conductor

Jun 25, 2000: Arnold Black (1923-2000), American violinist, conductor and composer

Jun 2, 2000: Heinz Benker (1921-2000r), German composer

May 27, 2000: Horst Wilhelm (1927-2000), German tenor

Apr 28, 2000: Kim Borg (1919-2000), Finnish bass-baritone, music teacher and composer

Apr 25, 2000: Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000), Danish composer, pianist, music pedagogue and author

Apr 17, 2000: Paula Lindberg-Salomon (1897-2000), German-Jewish contralto

Mar 27, 2000: Helma Elsner (1927-2000), German harpsichordist

Mar 16, 2000: Norman Foster (1924-2000), American bass

Mar 9, 2000: Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian composer and music teacher

Feb 28, 2000: Blythe Owen (1898-2000), American composer, arranger, music teacher and pianist

Feb 26, 2000: Andrzej Hiolski (1922-2000), Polish baritone

Jan 27, 2000: Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), Austrian pianist

Jan 17, 2000: Philip Jones (1928-2000), English trumpeter, arranger and founder/leader Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

Jan 8, 2000: Martha Kessler (1930-2000), Romanian soprano

The artist name is linked to his/her bio page on the BCW.
Name in red means that there is not yet a bio page of the artist on the BCW, although he/she was associated with J.S. Bach's music.

Prepared by Aryeh Oron & Manfred Krugmann (January 2016 - October 2024)