• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Deaths & Honors

Celebrate composers in the anniversary year 2019 In March 2019, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of some composers….

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Deaths & Honors

Michel Legrand died at the age of 86 in Paris The French composer and three-time Oscar winner Michel Legrand is dead….

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Deaths & Honors, Highlights Deaths and Honours

Hans Hütten was a composer with broad compositional skills. On 20.10.2018 the composer Hans Hütten, popular in Germany, died in his…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Deaths & Honors, Highlights Deaths and Honours

The King of Chanson has left the stage. In an interview Charles Aznavour once said that he hadn’t celebrated a birthday…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Artist, Deaths & Honors

Aretha Louise Franklin: 1942 – 2018 Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and pianist. Franklin began her career as a…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Deaths & Honors

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist and educator has died Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist and educator George Walker has died at the age…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Deaths & Honors

Cher, Philip Glass, Reba McEntire and Wayne Shorter receive the 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors Prize 2018 The John F. Kennedy…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Deaths & Honors

Since 14.06.2018 the name Alexander Scriabin floats over all the skies of the world. The Russian airline Aeroflot has expanded its…