Here are the composer anniversaries for January:

January Great Classical Composer Anniversaries

1/1/1782 J C Bach died 2/1/1837 Balakirev born 2/1/1905 M Tippett born 4/1/1710 Pergolesi born 6/1/1838 Max Bruch born 7/1/1899 Poulenc born 8/1/1713 Corelli died 8/1/1990 M Tippett died 11/1/1801 Cimarosa died 16/1/1886 Ponchielli died 16/1/1891 Delibes died 17/1/1751 Albinoni died 18/1/1835 Cesar Cui born 23/1/1981 S.Barber died 27/1/1756 Mozart born 27/1/1813Verdi died 29/1/1862 Delius born 30/1/1963 Poulenc died 31/1/1797 Schubert born

Tomorrow 2012 arrives. Here are the major anniversaries for composers:

2012 Classical Composer Anniversaries Gabrieli 400th anniversary of his death on 12 August Delius 150th birthday on 29 January Debussy 150th anniversary of his birth on 22 Auguust 1812 John Cage centenary of birth on 5 September Massenet centenary of his death on 13 August John Ireland 50th anniversary of his death on 12 June You can find a far more comprehensive list of anniversaries at classical-composers.org

St Hildegard of Bingen

Here is my portrait of the first female classical composer - Blessed Hildegard von Bingen. One of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages.
The central image is a photoetching and the border is a collagraph. 
I have just uploaded a profile of her on my website at 52composers.com

There is an increasing interest in her music and there is plenty to see on YouTube. There is an interesting BBC documentary available on DVD at Amazon and a full length German biopic 'Vision'.

November Anniversaries of Classical Composers

November Great Classical Composer Anniversaries

3/11/1801 Bellini born 4/11/1847 Mendelssohn died 4/11/1924 Fauré died 6/11/1854 Sousa born 6/11/1893 Tchaikovsky died 8/11/1890 César Franck died 12/11/833 Borodin born 13/11/1868 Rossini died 14/11/1805 Fanny Mendelssohn born 14/11/1900 Copland born 15/11/1787 Gluck died 18/11/1786 Weber born 19/11/1828 Schubert died 20/11/1894 A.Rubinstein died 21/11/1695 Purcell died 22/11/1900 A.Sullivan died 22/11/1913 Britten born 23/11/1585 Thomas Tallis died 24/11/1868 Scott Joplin born 28/11/1829 A.Rubinstein born 29/11/1643 Monteverdi died 29/11/1797 Donizetti born 29/11/1924 Puccini died

Classical Music Calendars

It's October. Time to start publishing my new  classical music calendars.

This year I am making them available again on Zazzle. (click to see them)

In addition I am selling them on Etsy (click to see them). The first one uploaded today.

The Zazzle ones are printed in the USA and therefore for North American buyers it makes sense to order from them to avoid any postage delays and customs duties.

The Etsy one instead are printed by myself here in London and therefore is recommended for UK and European buyers, again to avoid postage delays, VAT and customs duty.

Opera composers uploaded to Etsy today.  It is already on Zazzle.

October classical composer anniversaries

October Great Classical Composer Anniversaries

1/10/1865 Paul Dukas born 2/10/1920 Max Bruch died 3/10/1931 Carl Nielsen died 5/10/1880 Offenbach died 9/10/1813 Verdi born 9/10/1835 Saint-Saëns born 11/10/1896 Bruckner died 12/10/1872 Vaughan Williams born 14/10/1990 Bernstein died 17/10/1849 Chopin died 18/10/1893 Gounod died 20/10/1874 Charles Ives born 22/11/1811 Liszt born 24/10/1725 A Scarlatti died 25/11/1825 J Strauss Jr born 25/11/1838 Bizet born 26/11/1685 D Scarlatti born 27/11/1782 Paganini born

September classical composer anniversaries

September already. Summer almost finished. Here are this month's birthdays and death anniversaries of the great classical composers:

September Great Classical Composer        Anniversaries

4/9/1824 Bruckner born 4/9/1892 Milhaud born 4/9/1907 Grieg died 5/9/1735 J Christian Bach born 5/9/1912 John Cage born 8/9/1813 Gesualdo died 8/9/1841 Dvorak born 8/9/1949 Richard Strauss died 10/9/1659 Purcell born 13/9/1819 Clara Schumann born 13/9/1874 Schoenberg born 17/9/1179 Hildegard von Bingen died 20/9/1957 Sibelius died 21/9/1874 Holst born 23/9/1836 Bellini died 25/9/1906 Shostakovich born 25/9/1849 J Strauss Sr died 26/9/1898 Gershwin born 26/9/1945 Bartok died