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

Back to school - Great Classical Composers Calendar

Summer is going fast and the shops are full of Back to School promotions which made me think that I should do a calendar starting in September instead of January.
So here it is: September 2011 to August 2012 Great Composers with 12 of my prints:
Sibelius, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Brahms, Grieg, Bach and Shostakovich.
I'll do another version Jan - Dec 2012 later when the Christmas promotions start.

It is available now at Etsy
Click on the above link or on the image.

Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra by Gabriel Prokofiev

Next Saturday's BBC Prom at the Albert Hall will feature a performance of the 'Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra' by Gabriel Prokofiev who just happens to be the grandson of the great Sergio Prokofiev.
I have featured it as Video of the Week on the home page of my 52composers site.
It is an interesting piece combining classical symphonic music with hip-hop.

August anniversaries of classical composers

August Great Classical Composer Anniversaries

Births ?/08/1653 Pachelbel 18/08/1750 Salieri 22/08/1862 Debusssy 22/08/1928 Stockhausen 25/08/1918 Bernstein 31 /08/1834 Ponchielli Deaths 2/08/1945 Mascagni 8/08/1975 Shostakovich 09/08/1919 Leoncavallo 10/08/1928 Janacek 12/08/1992 John Cage 13/08/1912 Massanet 26/08/1958 Vaughan Williams 28/08/1959 Martinu

June Anniversaries for Classical Composers

It's June so here is my list of some composer birthdays and death anniversaries for the month:

June   Great Classical Composer    Anniversaries

01/06/1804 Glinka born 02/06/1857 Elgar born 03/06/1875 Bizet died 03/06/1899 Strauss J died 06/06/1903 Khachaturian born 08/06/1810 Schumann born 21/06/1908 Rimsky Korsakov died 10/06/1934 Delius died 11/06/1864 Strauss R. born 14/06/1671 Albinoni born 15/06/1843 Grieg born 17/06/1818 Gounod born 17/06/1882 Stravinsky born 20/06/1819 Offenbach born 25/06/1767 Telemann died