Anniversaries

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The 100th anniversary of the death of William Hurlstone occurred in June 2006. This was ignored by the BBC Radio 3. This same organisation has spent huge sums of money during the last fifty years commissioning second and third rate music. It frequently plays tired and second rate recordings.

The four major recording companies tend to re-record the same pieces of music over and over again, frequently for the ego of the performers.

Here is a list of anniversaries of composers of piano concertos, good middling and poor who at least deserve to be explored.

Composer Birth Death
Abeille, Ludwig 25 December 1761  
Ahlstrohm, Jacob N. 5 June 1805 4 May 1857
Alexander, Josef 15 May 1907 23 December 1990
Arensky, Anton 12 July 1861 25 February 1906
Bainton, Edgar L. 14 February 1880 8 December 1956
Borowski, Felix 10 March 1872 2 September 1956
Brull, Ignaz 7 November 1846 17 September 1907
Castro-Herrara, K. 7 February 1864 28 November 1907
Czerny, Carl 20 November 1791 15 July 1857
Doehler, Theodore 20 April 1814 20 April 1856
Duvernoy, Victor A. 30 August 1842 7 March 1907
Eberl, Anton 13 June 1765 11 March 1807
Ellicott, Rosalind 14 November 1857 5 April 1924
Gedalge, André 27 December 1856 5 February 1926
Gnattali, Radames 27 January 1906 3 February 1988
Goedike, Alexander K. 2 March 1877 9 July 1957
Goldschmidt, Otto M. D. 21 August 1829 24 February 1907
Golestan, Stan 7 June 1875 21 April 1956
Grieg, Edvard H. 15 June 1843 4 September 1907
Hofmann, Josef 20 January 1876 16 February 1957
Hurlstone, William Y. 7 January 1876 30 May 1906
Korngold, Erich W. 29 May 1897 29 November 1957
Lazzari, Sylvio J. 31 December 1857 10 June 1944
Levant, Oscar 27 December 1906 14 August 1972
Lopes-Graca, Fernando 17 December 1906 27 November 1996
Martucci, Giuseppe 6 January 1856 1 June 1909
Moor, Emanuel 6 August 1863 9 January 1931
Mozart, Wolfgang A. 21 January 1756 5 December 1791
Perosi, Lorenzo 20 December 1872 12 December 1956
Pozzoli, Ettore 22 July 1873 9 September 1957
Preindl, Josef 30 January 1756 26 October 1823
Ridky, Jaroslav 25 August 1897 14 August 1956
Schuman, Robert 8 June 1810 29 July 1856
Schutt, Eduard 22 October 1856 26 July 1933
Sinding, Christian A. 11 January 1856 3 December 1941
Sirola, Bozidar 20 December 1889 10 April 1956
Skold, K. Yngve 29 April 1899 6 December 1956
Taneyev, Sergei 25 November 1856 19 June 1915
Teyber, Anton 8 September 1756 18 December 1822
Urspruch, Anton 17 February 1850 7 January 1907
Vackar, Dalibor C. 19 September 1906 21 October 1984
Vasilenko, Sergei N. 30 March 1872 11 March 1956
Wolfurt, Kurt Von 7 September 1880 25 February 1957

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