Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths

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The project has taken care of articles about people who recently died, consistently so since 2019. Some appeared in the related section (RD) on the Main page. Some appeared in the Did you know ...? (DYK) section, before or after.

Deaths, with thanks for what they did in life

In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, - many articles received an unfree image from Storye book. The following column have the date of the person's birth, the date of death, the day the article expansion began, the appearence on the Main page among the recent deaths (RD). The eighths column shows interlanguage links (de stands for German, a + notes that there's another language, and ++ that there are even more other languages), and the last column contains notes, such as that the article was new, and a DYK entry with a preceding date. Only columns 1 to 4 and the last get archived. (updated 1 March 2025)

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More information Name, Date of birth ...
Name Date of birth Date of death Article RD {{ill}} Notes
Ute Walther23 Jun 19426 Jun 202611 Junde
Jürgen Kesting26 Jul 19405 Jun 20269 Jun10–14 Junde
Arnold Whittall11 Nov 193526 May 20261 Jun4–7 Junde++
Gunter Hampel31 Aug 193718 May 202623 May27–31 Mayde++
Felicity Lott8 May 194715 May 202618 May20–23 Mayde++
Alexander Held19 Oct 195812 May 202622 May24–27 Mayde++
Günter Jena2 Jan 19337 May 20269 May12–15 Mayde++
Michael Tilson Thomas21 Dec 194422 Apr 202627 Apr28–29 Aprde++plan
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2006 – 2023

In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, the third the date of the person's birth, the fourth the date of death, and the last column contains notes, such as that the article was new, and a DYK entry with date. The former more detailed table was archived in 2023 because Wikipedia's style changed.

The table goes initially generally by date of death, 2006 · 2008 · 2009 · 2011 · 2012 · 2014 · 2015 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025.

More information Name, born ...
Name born died DYK
Michael Robinson13 Dec 192420 Jul 200620 Dec 2018 ... that Rabbi Michael Robinson and 15 other Reform rabbis were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida?
Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg1 Jan 191527 Jul 200626 Jul 2011 ... that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg (pictured) into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Hans Herbert Jöris15 May 192518 Jan 200815 May 2020 ... that Hans Herbert Jöris conducted the world premiere of Giselher Klebe's one-act opera Das Rendezvous, composed for the 125th anniversary of the Staatsoper Hannover?
Hans Otto Jung17 Sep 192022 Apr 200929 Dec 2017 ... that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg, and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Bernhard Blume8 Sep 19371 Sep 20118 Sep 2011 ... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason? (new)
Guido Dessauer7 Nov 191513 Jan 201223 Jan 2012 ... that Guido Dessauer (pictured), a German executive and art collector, registered more than 30 patents in paper technology and started the career of Horst Janssen as a lithographer? (new)
Erhard Egidi23 Apr 19298 Sep 201423 Apr 2013 ... that Erhard Egidi conducted at the Neustädter Kirche both the first performance after more than 300 years of a funeral music by the church's first organist and Bach's Mass in B minor?
Maria Radner7 May 198124 Mar 201511 Apr 2015 ... that the contralto Maria Radner, who died in the Germanwings plane crash, performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder at his villa, Wahnfried? (new)
Frank Stähle12 Jul 194210 Dec 201515 Jan 2016 ... that director Frank Stähle revived the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem for the centenary of the Lutherkirche? (new)
Walter Fink16 Aug 193013 Apr 201816 Aug 2010 ... that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa?
Inge Borkh26 May 192126 Aug 2018
Fylbecatulous29 Oct 2018her edit notice: "I contribute here for happiness; as an enchantment against sorrow."
Raymond Arritt19 Sep 195714 Nov 201812 Jan 2019 ... that after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author Raymond Arritt said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now"?
Sylvia Geszty28 Feb 193413 Dec 201828 Jun 2019 ... that the Hungarian coloratura soprano Sylvia Geszty (pictured) was a member of the Berlin State Opera in East Germany before joining the Stuttgart State Opera in the West?
Johann Georg Reißmüller20 Feb 193210 Dec 201817 Jan 2019 ... that the journalist Johann Georg Reißmüller, a co-publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is credited with playing an important part in Germany's recognition of Croatia and Slovenia? (new)
F. W. Bernstein4 Mar 193820 Dec 201825 Jan 2019 ... that the poet, cartoonist, and satirist F. W. Bernstein (pictured) was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time?
Carlos Feller30 Jul 192321 Dec 20183 Feb 2019 ... that bass singer Carlos Feller made his debut at the Teatro Colón in 1946, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1988 in his signature role of Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte?
Amos Oz4 May 193928 Dec 2018
Theo Adam1 Aug 192610 Jan 2019
Wilma Lipp26 Apr 192526 Jan 2019
Jean Guillou18 Apr 193026 Jan 2019
Leonie Ossowski15 Aug 19254 Feb 2019
Tomi Ungerer28 Nov 19318 Feb 2019
Hans Stadlmair3 May 192913 Feb 201912 Jul 2011 ... that Hans Stadlmair, conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer's Fin al punto, of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?
Bruno Ganz22 Mar 194116 Feb 2019
Jörg Streli26 Mar 194013 Feb 201923 Feb 2019 ... that architect Jörg Streli and his two colleagues designed the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle (pictured) in Tyrol, which rises like a tower on a circular floor? (new)
Ekkehard Wlaschiha28 May 193820 Feb 2019
Hilde Zadek15 Dec 191721 Feb 2019
Margaret Scott26 Apr 192224 Feb 2019
Lothar Zenetti6 Feb 192624 Feb 201915 Jul 2016 ... that songs by Lothar Zenetti appear in current Protestant and Catholic hymnals, and are performed by singer-songwriters such as Konstantin Wecker? new: Das Weizenkorn muss sterben
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde19 Sep 193025 Feb 2019
Werner Schneyder25 Jan 19372 Mar 20198 Jun 2019 .. that Werner Schneyder performed political kabarett programs with Dieter Hildebrandt and provided television commentary on boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Klaus Kinkel17 Dec 19364 Mar 2019
Jacques Loussier26 Oct 19345 Mar 2019
Michael Gielen20 Jul 19278 Mar 2019new: Ein Traumspiel
Wolfgang Meyer13 Aug 195417 Mar 201913 May 2019 ... that Wolfgang Meyer, who recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a historical basset clarinet, played his last concert with jazz saxophonist Peter Lehel?
Friedrich Achleitner23 May 193027 Mar 201926 Apr 2019 ... that Friedrich Achleitner, a concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described?
Heinz Winbeck11 Feb 194626 Mar 201911 Sep 2011 ... that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the premiere of the Fifth Symphony Now and in the hour of death by Heinz Winbeck, which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony?
Hans Günter Nöcker22 Jan 192720 Mar 20194 May 2019 ... that the bass-baritone Hans Günter Nöcker appeared in several world premieres of operas in Berlin, Schwetzingen, and Munich, where he created a stirring portrayal of Gloucester in Reimann's Lear? (new)
Ruth-Margret Pütz26 Feb 19301 Apr 201911 Jun 2019 ... that Ruth-Margret Pütz was considered one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s? (new)
Werner Bardenhewer30 Jan 192910 Apr 201930 Jan 2020 ... that a clinic in Mopti, Mali, is named after Werner Bardenhewer, born 90 years ago today, who was for decades priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and then founded a charity group? new: Christus, der uns selig macht
Jörg Demus2 Dec 192816 Apr 2019
Hannelore Elsner26 Jul 194221 Apr 201925 May 2019 ... that Hannelore Elsner, who first appeared in film in 1959, received international attention for her role in No Place to Go at the Cannes Festival in 2000?
Heather Harper8 May 193022 Apr 2019
Ellen Schwiers11 Jun 193026 Apr 201919 Jun 2019 ... that Ellen Schwiers, who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival and in a film in 1961, founded a touring theatre company with her husband and daughter?
Sylvia Bretschneider14 Nov 196028 Apr 2019
Joseph Ward22 May 193227 Apr 2019
Deborah Cook6 Jul 193822 Apr 2019
Georg Katzer10 Jan 19357 May 201919 Aug 2019 ... that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification? (new)
Jens Beutel12 Jul 19468 May 2019
Anatol Herzfeld21 Jan 193110 May 2019
Unita Blackwell10 Apr 191913 May 201926 April 2017 ... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell (pictured) was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi? (GA by Coffee)
Wibke Bruhns8 Sep 193820 Jun 201910 Aug 2019 ... that Wibke Bruhns (pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis?
Iván Erőd2 Jan 193627 Jun 201917 Aug 2011 ... that Iván Erőd composed a Sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an opera titled Silk Worms, and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs?
Louis Thiry15 Feb 193529 Jul 2019
Eberhard Havekost19675 Jul 2019
Werner Müller15 Feb 19351 Jun 19463 Sep 2019 ... that Werner Müller managed a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as CEO of major energy companies?
Johnny Clegg7 Jun 195316 Jul 2019
Peter Hamm27 Feb 193722 Jul 20194 Sep 2019 ... that Peter Hamm, a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14? (new)
Brigitte Kronauer29 Dec 194022 Jul 201917 Sep 2019 ... that writer Brigitte Kronauer (pictured), who won the Georg Büchner Prize, the Jean Paul Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize, was described as both "a master of spite" and having "great kindness"?
Siegfried Strohbach27 Nov 192911 Jul 20192 Dec 2011 ... that Siegfried Strohbach composed a program of music for Advent for the Knabenchor Hannover, performed today at the Marktkirche?
Peter Lindbergh23 Nov 19443 Sep 2019
Irina Bogacheva2 Mar 193920 Sep 2019
Sigmund Jähn13 Feb 193721 Sep 2019
Lutz-Michael Harder4 Sep 194224 Aug 2019
Jessye Norman15 Sep 194530 Sep 201929 Mar 2020 ... that soprano Jessye Norman, whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial?
Hevrin Khalaf15 Nov 198412 Oct 201919 Nov 2019 ... that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria?
Erhard Eppler9 Dec 192619 Oct 2019
Márta Kurtág1 Oct 192717 Oct 20193 Nov 2019 ... that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok (Games)?
Raymond Leppard11 Aug 192722 Oct 2019
Hans Zender22 Nov 193622 Oct 2019
Rolando Panerai17 Oct 192422 Oct 2019
Hans-Peter Uhl5 Aug 194427 Oct 2019
Gert Boyle6 Feb 19243 Nov 2019
Stephen Cleobury31 Dec 194822 Nov 2019
Colin Mawby9 May 193624 Nov 20199 Dec 2011 ... that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
Mariss Jansons14 Jan 194330 Nov 2019
Johann Baptist Metz5 Aug 19282 Dec 2019
Herbert Joos21 Mar 19407 Dec 2019
Brian Boulton9 Dec 2019dedicated: Vespro della Beata Vergine for which he collected sources that he shared
Klaus Uwe Ludwig16 Sep 194320 Dec 20195 May 2016 ... that Klaus Uwe Ludwig played the complete organ works by Bach and Reger at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden?
Peter Schreier29 Jul 193525 Dec 2019
Manfred Stolpe16 May 193630 Dec 2019
Harry Kupfer12 Aug 193530 Dec 20193 Oct 2018 ... that Harry Kupfer, the stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin for decades, presented Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival as a psychological drama?
Wolfgang Dauner30 Dec 193510 Jan 2020
Franz Mazura22 Apr 192423 Jan 2020
Gudrun Pausewang3 Mar 192823 Jan 202011 Feb 2020 ... that Die Wolke (The Cloud), a young-adult novel by Gudrun Pausewang written after the Chernobyl disaster, was translated into English as Fall-Out?
Herbert Baumann31 Jul 192529 Jan 202016 Feb 2020 ... that in his ballet Alice im Wunderland, composer Herbert Baumann made the story's author a character?
Wolfgang J. Fuchs16 Sep 194520 Jan 20207 Feb 2020 ... that Wolfgang J. Fuchs, an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer?
Peter Serkin24 Jun 19421 Feb 2020
Volker David Kirchner25 Jul 19354 Feb 202025 Jun 2018 ... that Volker David Kirchner, who composed operas for the Wiesbaden State Theatre and a mass for the Mainz Cathedral, was the first recipient of the Rheingau Musikpreis?
Nello Santi22 Sep 19316 Feb 2020
Lucille Eichengreen1 Feb 19257 Feb 2020
Volker Spengler16 Feb 19398 Feb 2020
Mirella Freni27 Feb 19399 Feb 202013 Apr 2025 ... that Mirella Freni (pictured) and Luciano Pavarotti, who co-starred as the lovers Mimì and Rodolfo in La bohème at La Scala in 1968, shared the same wet nurse?
Joseph Vilsmaier24 Jan 193911 Feb 2020
Ror Wolf29 Jun 193217 Feb 2020
Sonja Ziemann8 Feb 192617 Feb 2020
Peter Dreher26 Aug 193220 Feb 2020
Lisel Mueller8 Feb 192421 Feb 2020
Burkhard Driest29 Jul 193527 Feb 202013 Mar 2020 ... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
Carsten Bresch5 Sep 19211 Mar 2020
Freimut Duve26 Nov 19363 Mar 202021 Apr 2020 ... that Freimut Duve became the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media after serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1998?
Elinor Ross1 Aug 19266 Mar 2020
Burkhard Hirsch29 May 193011 Mar 2020
Charles Wuorinen9 Jun 193811 Mar 202026 Apr 2020 ... that Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an opera by Charles Wuorinen, is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control? (new)
Giwi Margwelaschwili14 Sep 192713 Mar 2020
Willigis Jäger7 Mar 192520 Mar 202011 Apr 2020 ... that Willigis Jäger, a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order?
Anatoliy Mokrenko22 Jan 193324 Mar 20202 May 2020 ... that Anatoliy Mokrenko, a baritone and future director of the Ukrainian National Opera, performed in a Russian film based on Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor? (new)
Jennifer Bate11 Nov 194425 Mar 2020
Naomi Munakata31 May 195526 Mar 202027 Apr 2020 ... that Naomi Munakata, who sang in choir from age seven, was the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013? (new)
Rolf Huisgen13 Jun 192026 Mar 2020
Krzysztof Penderecki23 Nov 193329 Mar 202028 Apr 2020 ... that a recording of Credo, composed by Krzysztof Penderecki (pictured) for five soloists, choirs and orchestra for the 1998 Oregon Bach Festival, won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance? (new)
Thomas Schäfer22 Feb 196628 Mar 2020new
Francis Rapp27 Jun 192629 Mar 202025 Apr 2020 ... that the medievalist Francis Rapp (pictured), who taught at three universities in Strasbourg, focused on the history of Alsace?
Zoltán Peskó15 Feb 193731 Mar 20209 Jun 2020 ... that for the centenary of Stravinsky's death, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works—The Flood, Renard, and Mavra—directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala?
Reimar Lüst25 Mar 192331 Mar 2020
Ellis Marsalis Jr.14 Nov 19341 Apr 2020
Dmitri Smirnov2 Nov 19489 Apr 202026 May 2020 ... that the Triple Concerto No. 2 was composed by Dmitri Smirnov for the centenary concert of the London Symphony Orchestra, with principal violinist, harpist and double bassist as soloists? (new)
Kerstin Meyer3 Apr 192814 Apr 2020
Ulrich Kienzle9 May 193616 Apr 2020
Alexander Vustin24 Apr 194319 Apr 202011 Jun 2020 ... that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, at the centenary of a Moscow theatre? (new)
Norbert Blüm21 Jul 193423 Apr 2020
Alan Abel6 Dec 192825 Apr 202022 Apr 2017 ... that Alan Abel served as a percussionist for the Philadelphia Orchestra for 38 years?
Hans-Karl von Kupsch7 Mar 193726 Apr 20208 Apr 2022 ... that Hans-Karl von Kupsch, who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife? (new)
Martin Lovett3 Mar 192729 Apr 2020
Norbert Balatsch10 Mar 19286 May 2020
Roy Horn3 Oct 19448 May 2020
Gabriel Bacquier17 May 192413 May 2020
Ezio Bosso13 Sep 197115 May 2020
Renate Krößner17 May 194525 May 2020new: Fünf letzte Tage
Philipp Harnoncourt9 Feb 193125 May 202030 May 2021 ... that Philipp Harnoncourt (pictured) initiated the restoration of a Gothic chapel with a triangle floorplan, which was reopened on Trinity Sunday?
... that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-Gothic chapel with a star rib vault, was almost demolished to make room for a highway? (new)
Irm Hermann4 Oct 194226 May 2020
Mady Mesplé7 Mar 193130 May 2020
Marcello Abbado7 Oct 19284 Jun 2020
Anna Blume21 Apr 193618 Jun 20208 Sep 2011 ... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason?
Jürgen Holtz10 Aug 193221 Jun 202021 Jul 2020 ... that Jürgen Holtz played the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei with the Berliner Ensemble at age 86, sometimes appearing naked?
Nicolas Joel6 Feb 195319 Jun 202016 Aug 2019 ... that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary?
Ludwig Finscher14 Mar 193030 Jun 202024 Jul 2020 ... that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social and historic context?
Nikolai Kapustin22 Nov 19372 Jul 2020
Claude Mercier-Ythier19313 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 ... that harpsichords built and restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier were played in thousands of concerts and hundreds of recordings? (new)
Ennio Morricone10 Nov 19286 Jul 2020
Gabriella Tucci4 Aug 192911 Jul 2020
Eleanor Sokoloff16 Jun 191412 Jul 2020
Zizi Jeanmaire29 Apr 192417 Jul 2020
Bernard Ładysz24 Jul 192225 Jul 202021 Aug 2020 ... that Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of music by Krzysztof Penderecki in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas?
Hans-Jochen Vogel3 Feb 192626 Jul 2020
Herbert Leuninger8 Sep 193228 Jul 202031 Aug 2020 ... that Catholic priest Herbert Leuninger, a co-founder and speaker of Pro Asyl, is remembered as a "loudspeaker" for the interests of refugees? (new)
Maria Friesenhausen23 Mar 193231 Jul 202010 Jul 2017 ... that Maria Friesenhausen sang soprano solo with the NDR Chor in the 1950s and trained students of the University of Dortmund for an opera performance in 2001?
Leon Fleisher23 July 19282 Aug 202012 Sep 2020 ... that Klaviermusik mit Orchester, a 1923 piano concerto for the left hand by Paul Hindemith, was first performed in 2004 by Leon Fleisher and the Berlin Philharmonic?
Jerome Kohl27 Nov 19464 Aug 202028 Jan 2021 ... that Jerome Kohl, a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017?
... that In Freundschaft was composed in friendship by Karlheinz Stockhausen as a clarinet solo for Suzanne Stephens, and later adapted to the instruments of other friends? (new)
Erich Gruenberg12 Oct 19248 Aug 2020
Jürgen Schadeberg18 Mar 193129 Aug 2020
Annette Jahns24 Jun 195811 Sep 20202 Oct 2020 ... that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker, the role required her to scream as well as to sing?
... that in Bettina, the chamber opera's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode, reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide? (new)
Gerhard Weber3 Jun 194124 Sep 20206 Oct 2020 ... that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf, at age 17 before her international success, to be an ambassador for the Gerry Weber fashion brand he had co-founded? (new)
Herbert Feuerstein15 Jun 19376 Oct 2020
Folker Bohnet7 Aug 19376 Oct 20204 November 2020 ... that Folker Bohnet, who acted in Bernhard Wicki's 1959 film Die Brücke while still studying, toured for 13 years with a comedy play that he co-authored? (new)
Jon Gibson11 Mar 194012 Oct 2020
Rosanna Carteri14 Dec 193025 Oct 2020
Alexander Vedernikov11 Jan 196429 Oct 2020
Faustas Latėnas16 May 19563 Nov 202016 November 2020 ... that Faustas Latėnas, who was vice-minister of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, composed incidental music, film scores and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"? (new)
Gernot Roll9 Apr 193912 Nov 20206 January 2021 ... that Gernot Roll, considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel?
Robert Hammerstiel18 Feb 193323 Nov 202021 Dec 2020 ... that Robert Hammerstiel (pictured) wrapped the Ringturm tower in Vienna in a painting showing stations of human life in simplified figures in bright colours?
Hella Brock3 Oct 191930 Nov 2020
Jutta Lampe13 Dec 19373 Dec 20208 January 2021 ... that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando?
Gotthilf Fischer11 Feb 192811 Dec 202025 Jan 2021 ... that Gotthilf Fischer (pictured) founded the Fischer-Chöre, who appeared with 1,500 singers at the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup?
Fanny Waterman22 Mar 192020 Dec 2020
Osian Ellis8 Feb 19285 Jan 2021
Biserka Cvejić5 Nov 19238 Jan 202118 Feb 2021 ... that Biserka Cvejić (pictured), a mezzo-soprano from Serbia who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1960, as Amneris in Verdi's Aida?
Yoninah22 Mar 2020WP:QAI/Psalms
Arik Brauer4 Jan 192924 Jan 202117 Feb 2021 ... that Universalkünstler Arik Brauer (pictured) created paintings in Fantastic Realism, songs in Austropop, stage sets for the Paris Opera, and house facades in Austria and Israel?
Wilhelm Knabe22 Mar 19208 Oct 202326 Jan 2021 ... that Wilhelm Knabe (pictured), a co-founder of the Greens in Germany and a "green" mayor of Mülheim, participated in Fridays For Future with the slogan "Opa For Future"?
Libuše Domanínská4 July 19242 Feb 202125 Feb 2021 ... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of the Prague National Theatre, performed in all operas by Janáček, and a recording as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
Vera Wülfing-Leckie19548 Feb 20212 Mar 2021 ... that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English? (new)
Andréa Guiot11 Jan 192215 Feb 20218 Mar 2021 ... that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role? (new)
Wolfgang Boettcher30 Jan 193524 Feb 2021
Helmut Winschermann22 Mar 19224 Mar 2021
Dmitri Bashkirov1 Nov 19317 Mar 2021
Yevgeny Nesterenko8 Jan 193820 Mar 2021
Taryn Fiebig1 Feb 197220 Mar 2021
Uta Ranke-Heinemann2 Oct 192725 Mar 2021
Veronica Dunne2 Aug 19275 Apr 2021
Hans Küng19 Mar 19286 Apr 2021
Grischa Huber18 Sep 19446 Apr 20216 May 2021 ... that Grischa Huber (pictured) played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"? (new)
Thomas Fritsch16 Jan 194421 Apr 202124 May 2021 ... that Thomas Fritsch, a film actor who charmed the teens of the 1960s, was the German voice of Russell Crowe, Scar and Diego, a Smilodon?
Milva17 Jul 193924 Apr 2021
Christa Ludwig16 Mar 192824 Apr 2021
Anne Buydens23 Apr 191929 Apr 2021
Anthony Payne2 Aug 193630 Apr 2021
Karl-Günther von Hase15 Sep 19179 May 202112 Jun 2021 ... that Karl-Günther von Hase (pictured), who had served as spokesman of the German government under three chancellors, became director of the ZDF broadcaster?
Raimund Hoghe12 May 194914 May 20219 Jun 2021 ... that Raimund Hoghe, who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel (The Hunchback)? (new)
Carla Fracci20 Aug 193627 May 2021
Robert Rutman15 May 19312 Jun 202112 Dec 2016 ... that Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument?
Friederike Mayröcker20 Dec 19244 Jun 2021
Gottfried Böhm23 Jan 19209 Jun 202110 Feb 2020 ... that Maria, Königin des Friedens (pictured), a Brutalist pilgrimage church in Neviges, Germany, has become architect Gottfried Böhm's signature building? (new)
Gianna Rolandi16 Aug 195220 Jun 2021
Louis Andriessen6 Jun 19391 Jul 2021
Bill Ramsey17 Apr 19312 Jul 2021
Didi Contractor19295 Jul 2021
Michael Horovitz4 Apr 19357 Jul 2021
Esther Béjarano15 Dec 192410 Jul 2021
Heribert Beissel27 Mar 193311 Jun 202115 Sep 2021 ... that the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn (pictured), a symphony orchestra founded and conducted by Heribert Beissel, has a tradition of playing a concert series at more than ten major halls of Germany? (new)
Hans Drewanz2 Dec 192922 Jun 202117 Sep 2021 ... that when conductor Hans Drewanz, a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt, became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt, he was the youngest GMD in Germany?
Jean Kraft9 Jan 192715 Jul 2021
Alfred Biolek10 Jul 193423 Jul 202129 Aug 2021 ... that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek (pictured) in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance? (new)
Herbert Köfer17 Feb 192124 Jul 2021
Ben Wagin25 Mar 193028 Jul 2021
Martin Perscheid16 Feb 196631 Jul 2021
Jerzy Matuszkiewicz10 Apr 192831 Jul 2021
Kazimierz Kowalski30 Jul 19511 Aug 202126 Aug 2021 ... that when bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski was general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź, Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor was broadcast worldwide?
Karl Heinz Bohrer26 Sep 19324 Aug 2021
Peter Fleischmann26 Jul 193711 Aug 202114 Sep 2011 ... that Peter Fleischmann directed the cult film The Hamburg Syndrome, that foresaw a similar scenario to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as 1979?
Kurt Biedenkopf28 Jan 193012 Aug 2021
Franz Josef Altenburg15 Mar 194118 Aug 20219 Sep 2021 ... that the ceramicist Franz Josef Altenburg was honoured with an exhibition of his art at Austria's Kaiservilla where he was born?
Gunilla Bergström3 Jul 194225 Aug 202130 Jan 2010 ... that the Alfie Atkins children's book series by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström has been translated into twenty-nine different languages and sold over eight million copies worldwide?
Siegfried Matthus13 Apr 193927 Aug 2021
Teresa Żylis-Gara23 Jan 193028 Aug 2021
Gerhard Erber21 Nov 19344 Sep 202119 Jul 2020 ... that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain?
Amanda Holden19 Jan 19489 Sep 2021
Jean-Paul Jeannotte9 Mar 19269 Sep 202125 Sep 2021 ... that Jean-Paul Jeannotte, founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal, performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour? (new)
Norman Bailey23 Mar 193315 Sep 2021
Sylvano Bussotti1 Oct 193119 Sep 202124 Oct 2021 ... that the title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti, caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance? (new)
András Ligeti5 Aug 195319 Sep 2021
Karan Armstrong14 Dec 194128 Sep 2021
Eberhard Jüngel5 Dec 193428 Sep 2021
Carlisle Floyd11 Jun 192630 Sep 2021
Eberhard Panitz16 Apr 19321 Oct 202128 Oct 2021 ... that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram, with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden?
Mordechai Geldman16 Apr 19468 Oct 2021
Evelyn Richter31 Jan 193010 Oct 2021
Luis de Pablo28 Jan 193010 Oct 2021
Gerd Ruge9 Aug 192815 Oct 202115 Nov 2021 ... that German reporter Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped Russian author Boris Pasternak financially?
Edita Gruberová23 Dec 194618 Oct 2021
Hans Haselböck26 Jul 192820 Oct 20214 Nov 2021 ... that Hans Haselböck (pictured), later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949?
Bernard Haitink4 Mar 192921 Oct 2021
Udo Zimmermann6 Oct 194322 Oct 202119 Nov 2018 ... that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose, one while he was a student?
Alfredo Diez Nieto25 Oct 191825 Oct 2021
Nelson Freire18 Oct 194431 Oct 2021
Doğan Akhanlı 18 Mar 195731 Oct 2021
Aga Mikolaj7 Mar 197111 Nov 202118 Apr 2021 ... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?
Hermann Bausinger17 Sep 192624 Nov 202120 Dec 2021 ... that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday?
Dieter B. Herrmann3 Jan 193925 Nov 2021
Rudolf Pohl5 Nov 19241 Dec 20211 Jan 2022 ... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s? (new)
Christine Haidegger27 Feb 19425 Dec 202115 Jan 2022 ... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger (pictured) details her childhood in post–World War II Austria?
Günther Rühle3 Jun 192410 Dec 202120 Dec 2021 ... that Günther Rühle wrote two books covering the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966? (new)
Stefan Keil20 Mar 195816 Dec 20217 Jan 2022 ... that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas? (new)
George Alexander Albrecht15 Feb 193521 Dec 20219 Jan 2022 ... that in Die Schneekönigin, an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
... that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work? (new)
Gwendolyn Killebrew26 Aug 194124 Dec 202131 Mar 2014 ... that soon after starting her career at the Met, Gwendolyn Killebrew appeared as a valkyrie in Wagner's Die Walküre in a live broadcast alongside Birgit Nilsson in the title role?
Herbert Achternbusch23 Nov 193810 Jan 2022
Erwin Eisch18 Apr 192725 Jan 2022
Heinz Werner Zimmermann11 Aug 193025 Jan 2022
Georg Christoph Biller20 Sep 195527 Jan 202218 Apr 2010 ... that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
(new) ... that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor, Bach's choir dating back to 1212?
Hans Neuenfels31 May 19416 Feb 2022
George Crumb24 Oct 19246 Feb 2022
Franz Grave25 Nov 193219 Feb 202217 Mar 2022... that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America? (new)
Peter Merseburger9 May 192819 Feb 202231 Mar 2022 ... that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer (pictured) on an abortion was cancelled by authorities?
... that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt? (new)
Christian Herwartz16 Apr 194320 Feb 202213 Apr 2022 ... that Christian Herwartz, a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held "street exercises" and peace prayers? (new)
Antonietta Stella15 Mar 192923 Feb 2022
Eleonore Schönborn14 Apr 192025 Feb 202228 Mar 2022 ... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement?
Yvonne Ciannella25 Jul 19261 Mar 20226 Feb 2016 ... that Yvonne Ciannella, who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica, recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"?
Inge Deutschkron23 Aug 19239 Mar 2022
Maks Levin7 Jul 198113 Mar 202225 Apr 2022 ... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel? (new)
Oksana Shvets10 Feb 195517 Mar 202215 Apr 2022 ... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors? (new)
Artem Datsyshyn26 Jan 197917 Mar 202216 Apr 2022 ... that Artem Datsyshyn, the National Opera of Ukraine's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère, is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"? (new)
Michail Jurowski25 Dec 194519 Mar 2022
Serhiy Kot22 Jun 195828 Mar 202216 May 2022 ... that Serhiy Kot was editor for Ukrainian Question, a book collection of articles about the status of Ukraine in the 1930s? (new)
Birgit Nordin22 Feb 19347 Apr 2022
Hellmuth Matiasek15 May 19317 Apr 2022
Philippe Boesmans17 May 193610 Apr 2022
Larysa Khorolets25 Aug 194812 Apr 2022
Radu Lupu30 Nov 194517 Apr 2022
Harrison Birtwistle15 Jul 193417 Apr 2022
Renate Holm10 Aug 193121 Apr 2022
Ursula Lehr5 Jun 193025 Apr 2022
Qin Yi4 Feb 19229 May 202231 Mar 2015... that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China?
William Bennett7 Feb 193611 May 2022
Teresa Berganza16 Mar 193313 May 2022
Klara Höfels5 Apr 194515 May 202214 Jun 2022 ... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin? (new)
Thomas Resetarits25 Nov 193918 May 202222 Jun 2022 ... that Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits created Stations of the Cross (example sculpture pictured)? (new)
Horst Sachtleben24 Sep 193022 May 2022
Victor von Halem26 Mar 194028 May 2022
Friedrich Christian Delius13 Feb 194330 May 2022
Kai Bumann16 Aug 19612 Jun 202214 Sep 2022 ... that the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969 for members from all four Swiss language regions, and meets twice a year for rehearsals and a tour program? (new)
Erasmus Schöfer4 Jun 19317 Jun 202224 Jul 2022 ... that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels? (news)
Christof May8 Apr 19738 Jun 2022(new)
Ivonne Haza15 Feb 193516 Jun 2022
Hans-Dieter Bader16 Feb 193818 Jun 20223 May 2016 ... that Hans-Dieter Bader performed the title role of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly, recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover, "as written", while Plácido Domingo had to cut and change the part?
Wilma Schmidt27 Jun 192618 Jun 202220 Jul 2022 ... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic repertoire, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier? (new)
Kurt Equiluz13 Jun 192920 Jun 202210 Apr 2010 ... that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna?
Ernst Jacobi11 Jul 193323 Jun 202219 Jul 2022 ... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
Katja Husen12 Jun 197628 Jun 20221 Aug 2022 ... that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth, a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg? (new)
Richard Taruskin2 Apr 19451 Jul 2022
Peter Brook21 Mar 19252 Jul 2022
Alfred Koerppen16 Dec 19265 Jul 20226 Sep 2021 ... that Alfred Koerppen, who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil?
Hans-Joachim Hespos13 Mar 193818 Jul 2022
Alice Harnoncourt26 Sep 193020 Jul 2022
Ruslana Pysanka17 Nov 196520 Jul 202210 Aug 2022 ... that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy from 2008, died as a refugee in Germany?
Stefan Soltész6 Jan 194922 Jul 2022
Maria Frisé1 Jan 192631 Jul 2022
Anastasiya Kobzarenko8 May 19341 Aug 2022
Eike Christian Hirsch6 Apr 19377 Aug 2022
Zofia Posmysz23 Aug 19238 Aug 202216 Mar 2018 ... that Zofia Posmysz (pictured), Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play on her memories, which became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, a 1963 film, and a 1968 opera?
Jean-Jacques Sempé17 Aug 193211 Aug 20224 Sep 2022 ... that The Story of Mr Sommer, a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé, has been described as "a children's tale for adults"? (new)
Matti Lehtinen24 Apr 192217 Aug 20227 Sep 2022 ... that Matti Lehtinen, a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93? (new)
Theo Sommer10 Jun 193022 Aug 2022
Ruth Lapide192930 Aug 2022
Lars Vogt8 Sep 19705 Sep 2022... that concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998, are played in a power plant?
... that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach (pictured), a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974? (new)
Mariella Mehr26 Sep 19475 Sep 2022
Jörg Faerber18 Jun 192913 Sep 20222 Apr 2013 ... that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich?
Barbara Stamm29 Oct 19445 Oct 2022
Leon Schidlowsky21 Jul 193110 Oct 202228 Dec 2022 ... that Leon Schidlowsky wrote the Misa sine nomine in memory of Víctor Jara for speaker, choirs, organ and percussion, juxtaposing mass texts with contemporary poetry and Torah verses? (new)
Bernardo Adam Ferrero28 Feb 194212 Oct 20224 Dec 2022 ... that Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military bands that he conducted?
Mariana Nicolesco28 Nov 194814 Oct 2022
Michael Ponti29 Oct 193717 Oct 2022
Galina Pisarenko24 Jan 193423 Oct 2022
Libor Pešek22 Jun 193323 Oct 2022
Pierre Soulages24 Dec 191926 Oct 2022
Hannah Pick-Goslar12 Nov 192828 Oct 2022
Werner Schulz22 Jan 19509 Nov 2022
Wolf Schneider7 May 192510 Nov 2022
Azio Corghi9 Mar 193717 Nov 202217 Dec 2022 ... that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster?
Ned Rorem23 Oct 192318 Nov 2022
Michael Hampe3 Jun 193518 Nov 202211 Apr 2021 ... that Michael Hampe, who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival?
Hans Magnus Enzensberger11 Nov 192924 Nov 2022
Jens Bullerjahn15 Jul 196226 Nov 2022
Christiane Hörbiger13 Oct 193830 Nov 2022
Volodymyr Kozhukhar16 Mar 19413 Dec 202212 Jan 2023 ... that Volodymyr Kozhukhar, chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite?
Quentin Oliver Lee28 Jan 19881 Dec 202230 Dec 2022 ... that Quentin Oliver Lee landed a title role in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway after a casting agent had spotted him singing in a subway station?
Wolf Erlbruch30 Jun 194811 Dec 2022
Werner Leich31 Jan 192717 Dec 2022
Dieter Henrich5 Jan 192717 Dec 2022
Wim Henderickx17 Mar 196218 Dec 2022
Manfred Messerschmidt1 Oct 192619 Dec 2022
Pope Benedict XVI16 Apr 192731 Dec 2022
Kurt Horres28 Nov 19322 Jan 2023
Andrew Downes20 Aug 19502 Jan 2023
Rosi Mittermaier5 Aug 19504 Jan 2023
Siegfried Kurz18 Jul 19308 Jan 2023
Hans Krieger13 Mar 19339 Jan 20234 Dec 2011 ... that Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today?
Lothar Blumhagen16 Jul 192710 Jan 2013
José Evangelista5 Aug 194310 Jan 2023
Carl Hahn1 Jul 192614 Jan 2023
Clytus Gottwald20 Nov 192518 Jan 202319 Jul 2012 ... that Clytus Gottwald has arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world"?
Melitta Muszely13 Sep 192718 Jan 202319 Mar 2019 ... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80?
Gero Storjohann12 Feb 195829 Jan 2023
Jürgen Flimm17 July 19414 Feb 2023
Friedrich Cerha17 Feb 192614 Feb 2023
Nadja Tiller16 Mar 192921 Feb 2023
Günther von Lojewski11 Jul 193526 Feb 2023
Mary Bauermeister7 Sep 19342 Mar 2023
Heinz Schwarz24 Jul 19286 Mar 202327 Apr 2023 ... that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020?
Marek Kopelent28 Apr 193212 Mar 2023
Antje Vollmer31 May 194115 Mar 2023
James Bowman6 Nov 194127 Mar 2023
Horst Milde6 Apr 192329 Mar 2023
Andreas K. W. Meyer2 Jun 19588 Apr 2023
Huub Oosterhuis1 Nov 19339 Apr 20237 Sep 2019 ... that the melody of the Christian hymn "Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis" is written without bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
... that the 1965 song "Wie als een God wil leven" written by Huub Oosterhuis was listed in 2013 among hymns in German successful with young people?
Karl Berger30 Mar 19359 Apr 2023
Irma Blank193414 Apr 2023(new) 21 May 2023 ... that the art of Irma Blank (pictured), of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
Martin Petzold25 Jun 195519 Apr 202313 Sep 2012 ... that tenor Martin Petzold, a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor, sang Bach's Evangelist parts with the group?
Sergio Rendine7 Sep 195421 Apr 2023
Manfred Weiss12 Feb 193525 Apr 2023
Menahem Pressler16 Dec 19366 May 2023
Grace Bumbry4 Jan 19377 May 2023
Soňa Červená9 Sep 19257 May 202329 Jun 2023 ... that international opera singer Soňa Červená (pictured) won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress at age 83?
Günter Wewel29 Nov 19349 May 2023
Sibylle Lewitscharoff16 Apr 195413 May 2023
Maria Mies6 Feb 193115 May 2023
Javier Álvarez8 May 195623 May 2023
Mordechai Rechtman16 May 192627 May 2023
Harald zur Hausen11 Mar 193629 May 202313 Oct 2008 ... that virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008?
Kurt Widmer28 Dec 194031 May 2023
Françoise Gilot26 Nov 19216 Jun 2023
Suna Kan21 Oct 193611 Jun 2023
Cornel Țăranu20 Jun 193418 Jun 2023(new) that Romanian musicologist Cornel Țăranu completed unfinished scores by George Enescu, namely those which Enescu himself did not wish to publish?
Bernd Schroeder6 Jun 194418 Jun 202328 Feb 2020 ... that Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by wife and husband?
Gabriele Schnaut24 Feb 195119 Jun 202317 Dec 2013 ... that Gabriele Schnaut recorded alto parts in Bach cantatas in the 1970s, and appeared as Waltraute and Second Norne in the Jahrhundertring film in 1980, as Isolde in 1985, and as Turandot in 2002?
Doris Stockhausen28 Feb 192420 Jun 202328 Feb 2021 ... that Doris Stockhausen's husband}} dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?
Peter Brötzmann6 Mar 194122 Jun 2023
Rachel Yakar3 Mar 193624 Jun 202317 Nov 2023 ... that soprano Rachel Yakar, who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"?
Clarence Barlow27 Dec 194529 Jun 2023
Anthony Gilbert26 Jul 19345 Jul 2023
Graham Clark10 Nov 19416 Jul 202317 Sep 2023 ... that the tenor Graham Clark appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, portraying the characters Loge and Mime in the 1988 Ring cycle?
Violeta Hemsy de Gainza25 Jan 19297 Jul 2023
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky10 Dec 193310 Jul 202327 Jul 2023 ... that in 1973 Luten Petrowsky (pictured) played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany?
Christian Quadflieg11 Apr 194516 Jul 2023
Valentin Gheorghiu21 Mar 192817 Jul 2023
Heide Simonis4 Jul 194312 Jul 2023
Silvana Lattmann8 Nov 191819 Jul 2023
Martin Walser24 Mar 192728 Jul 2023
Nancy Van de Vate30 Dec 193029 Jul 2023
Mariana Sîrbu 1948 or 19491 Aug 2023
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse30 Jul 19295 Aug 2023
Renata Scotto24 Feb 193416 Aug 2023
Berit Lindholm18 Oct 193412 Aug 202330 Aug 2023
Gloria Coates10 Oct 193319 Aug 2023
Robert Hale22 Aug 193323 Aug 202314 Oct 2023 ... that when Robert Hale performed as Wagner's Wotan in Washington, a reviewer noted that he commanded "the spirit, from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment, from flooding tenderness to grim rage"?
Milka Stojanović13 Jan 19371 Sep 2023
Walter Arlen31 Jul 19202 Sep 2023
Anatol Ugorski28 Sep 19425 Sep 2023
Margherita Rinaldi12 Jan 19357 Sep 2023
Stephen Gould24 Jan 196219 Sep 20237 Feb 2024 ... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
Felix Ayo1 Jul 193324 Sep 2023
François Glorieux27 Aug 193223 Sep 202329 Nov 2023 (new) ... that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson?
Russell Sherman25 Mar 193030 Sep 2023
Claus Wisser30 Jun 19424 Oct 202330 Jun 1918 ... that Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday?
Jacqueline Dark19674 Oct 2023
Maurice Bourgue6 Nov 19396 Oct 2023
Reiner Goldberg17 Oct 19397 Oct 2023
Jorge Lavelli11 Nov 19329 Oct 2023
Hatto Beyerle20 Jun 193315 Oct 2023
Carmen Petra Basacopol5 Sep 192615 Oct 2023
Carla Bley11 May 193617 Oct 2023
István Láng1 Mar 193323 Oct 2023
Zdeněk Mácal8 Jan 193625 Oct 2023
Lea Ackermann2 Feb 193731 Oct 202323 Nov 2023 ... that Lea Ackermann (pictured), a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa?
Ryland Davies9 Feb 19435 Nov 20239 Jan 2024 ... that a 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre?
Harald Heckmann6 Dec 19245 Nov 2023
Claude Kahn9 Nov 193517 Nov 2023
Colette Maze16 Jun 191419 Nov 2023
Douglas Ahlstedt16 Mar 194524 Nov 2023
Medea Amiranashvili10 Oct 19352 Dec 2023
Wolfgang Wieland16 Mar 19485 Dec 2023
Gunther Emmerlich18 Sep 194419 Dec 2023
Rebekka Habermas3 Jul 195921 Dec 2023
Heike Matthiesen27 Jun 196422 Dec 2023
Hermann Baumann1 Aug 193429 Dec 2023
Chris Karrer20 Jan 19462 Jan 2024
Tamara Milashkina13 Sep 193410 Jan 202423 Apr 2013 ... that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed Tchaikowsky operas alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975?
Romuald Twardowski17 Jun 193013 Jan 2024
Gerd Uecker15 Sep 194617 Jan 2024
Ewa Podleś26 Apr 195219 Jan 2024
Oskar Negt1 Aug 19342 Feb 2024
Helga Paris21 May 19385 Feb 2024
Seiji Ozawa1 Sep 19356 Feb 2024
Alfred Grosser1 Feb 19257 Feb 2024
Johanna von Koczian30 Oct 193310 Feb 2024
Ladislav Burlas3 Apr 192711 Feb 20243 Apr 2024 ... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
Ira von Fürstenberg17 Apr 194019 Feb 2024
Rudolf Jansen19 Jan 194012 Feb 2024
Gabriela Grillo19 Aug 195225 Feb 2024
Günther Leib12 Apr 19273 Mar 20248 Aug 2018 ... that Günther Leib, who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival, was called a "first rate Beckmesser" by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera?
Françoise Garner17 October 19337 Mar 2024
Guy Touvron15 Feb 19509 Mar 2024
Aribert Reimann4 Mar 19369 Mar 202422 Aug 2017 ... that Aribert Reimann composed Medea for the Vienna State Opera, based on the drama by Franz Grillparzer?
Maurizio Pollini5 Jan 194223 Mar 202424 Feb 2019 ... that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini?
Péter Eötvös2 Jan 194424 Mar 202428 Oct 2018 ... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors?
Judith Hemmendinger2 Oct 192224 Mar 202414 Dec 2016 ... that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel?
Hans Joachim Meyer13 Oct 193629 Mar 2024
Notker Wolf21 Jun 19402 Apr 2024
Gerhard Lohfink29 Aug 19342 Apr 2024
Kalevi Kiviniemi30 Jun 19593 Apr 2024
Joe Viera4 Sep 19327 Apr 2024
Michael Boder9 Nov 19587 Apr 2024
Dieter Rexroth6 May 19419 Apr 2024
Samuel Kummer10 Mar 193813 Apr 202430 May 2024 ... that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger, Louis Vierne, and Samuel Kummer?
Lorenzo Palomo10 Mar 193813 Apr 2024
Andrew Davis2 Feb 194420 Apr 2024
Peter Demetz21 Oct 192230 Apr 20245 Jun 2024 ... that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?
Gerhard Müller10 May 192910 May 2024
Willi Brokmeier8 Apr 192818 May 202422 Sep 2021 ... that Willi Brokmeier, who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan?
Rolf-Ernst Breuer3 Nov 193722 May 2024
Hugues Gall18 Mar 194025 May 2024
Alexander Lang24 Sep 194131 May 2024
Jürgen Moltmann8 Apr 19263 Jun 2024
Éric Tappy19 May 193111 Jun 2024
Jodie Devos10 Oct 198816 Jun 2024
Gerhard Klingenberg11 May 192918 Jun 202423 Jul 2024 ... that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe?
Lothar Gall3 Dec 193620 Jun 2024
Margarita Voites30 Oct 193620 Jun 2024
Lando Bartolini11 Apr 193728 Jun 2024
Martti Wallén20 Nov 194829 Jun 2024
Liana Isakadze2 Aug 19465 Jul 2024
Marina Kondratyeva1 Feb 19348 Jul 2024
Thomas Hoepker10 Jun 193610 Jul 2024
Ruth Hesse18 Sep 193613 Jul 20242 Jun 2019 ... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"?
Sarah Gibson21 May 198614 Jul 20248 Aug 2024 ... that Sarah Gibson, who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff, composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro, to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms?
April Cantelo2 Apr 192816 Jul 2024
Eugene Sârbu6 Sep 195021 Jul 2024
Jerzy Artysz18 Nov 192822 Jul 202428 Aug 2024 ... that Jerzy Artysz was given a gala concert on his 70th birthday by the Chopin University of Music?
Elena Mauti Nunziata28 Aug 194622 Jul 2024
Wolfgang Rihm13 Mar 195227 Jul 202426 Aug 2024 ... that Wolfgang Rihm said of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus: "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?" (earlier: Die Hamletmaschine (opera), Dionysos
Jürgen Ahrend28 Apr 19301 Aug 2024
Antônio Meneses23 Aug 19573 Aug 2024
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez17 Sep 19494 Aug 2024
Kasper König21 Nov 19439 Aug 2024
Celestina Casapietra23 Aug 193810 Aug 202424 May 2019 ... that Celestina Casapietra, an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera, and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s?
Maryvonne Le Dizès25 Jun 19409 Aug 20243 Oct 2024 ... that Maryvonne Le Dizès commissioned a trio for saxophone, trombone and violin during her time as a violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain?
Christof Nel7 Apr 19446 Aug 202410 Nov 2019 ... that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's opera Kullervo?
Alexander Goehr10 Aug 193226 Aug 20247 Mar 2025 ... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon?
1 Nov 2016 ... that the opera Behold the Sun by Alexander Goehr, about the Anabaptists in Münster, was premiered in an abridged version in German, but the BBC aired it in full in English?
Friedrich Schorlemmer16 May 19449 Sep 2024
Caterina Valente14 Apr 19319 Sep 2024
Beppe Menegatti6 Sep 192917 Sep 2024
Benny Golson27 Jan 192821 Sep 2024
Norbert Lohfink28 Jul 192823 Sep 2024
Siegfried Lorenz30 Aug 194524 Aug 202412 Feb 2018 ... that Siegfried Lorenz, the first lyrical baritone of the Berlin State Opera, recorded 151 songs by Schubert and sang "with an enviable control of line and dynamics", according to Alan Blyth?
Michael Sladek27 Jan 192824 Sep 2024
Stoika Milanova5 Aug 194529 Sep 2024
Rohan de Saram9 March 193929 Sep 20247 Dec 2024 ... that cellist Rohan de Saram's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV?
Helmut Bauer18 Mar 19335 Oct 202420 Nov 2024 ... that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
Amaury du Closel6 Feb 19567 Oct 202425 Nov 2024 ... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
Leif Segerstam2 Mar 19449 Oct 2024
Barbara Owen25 Jan 193314 Oct 2024
Garbis Aprikian192615 Oct 2024
Janusz Olejniczak2 Oct 195220 Oct 2024
Walter Jacob13 Mar 193020 Oct 2024
Barbara Kolb10 Feb 193921 Oct 2024
Edzard Reuter16 Feb 192827 Oct 2024
Franz Kamphaus2 Feb 193228 Oct 20242 Feb 2014... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus}} opposed the pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?
Christine Görner15 Jun 193030 Oct 2024
Madeleine Riffaud23 Aug 19246 Nov 2024
Johannes Beutler3 Oct 19336 Nov 2024
Barbara Aland12 Apr 193710 Nov 2024
Jürgen Becker10 Jul 19327 Nov 2024
Odile Bailleux30 Dec 193919 Nov 2024
Marianne Preger-Simon6 Mar 192922 Nov 2024
Siegfried Thiele28 Mar 193424 Nov 2024
Michael Ruetz4 Apr 19402 Dec 2024
Thomas Hertel19519 Dec 2024
Wolfgang Becker22 Jun 195412 Dec 2024
Sigrid Kehl23 Nov 192918 Dec 2024
Helmut Schlesinger31 Feb 198523 Dec 2024
Dada Masilo21 Feb 198529 Dec 2024
Loretta Di Franco28 Oct 194230 Dec 2024
Tom Johnson18 Nov 193931 Dec 2024
Jean-Michel Defaye18 Dec 19321 Jan 2025
Wilhelm Brückner30 Sep 19322 Jan 2025
Hans Dieter Beck9 Apr 19323 Jan 202514 Feb 2025 ... that Hans Dieter Beck (pictured), a co-head of the publisher C. H. Beck, rode a bicycle to work until he was 92?
Ayla Erduran22 Aug 19347 Jan 2025
Otto Schenk12 Jun 1930}9 Jan 2025
Walter Deutsch29 Apr 192313 Jan 2025
Elgar Howarth4 Nov 193513 Jan 2025DYK with Goehr
Claire van Kampen3 Nov 195318 Jan 2025
André Soltner20 Nov 193218 Jan 2025
Gabriel Yacoub4 Feb 195222 Jan 2025
Kazuyoshi Akiyama2 Jan 194126 Jan 20257 Mar 2025 ... that in 1994 Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with Japanese musicians.
Horst Janson4 Oct 193528 Jan 2025
İlhan Usmanbaş23 Oct 192130 Jan 2025
Helga de Alvear19362 Feb 2025
Paul Plishka28 Aug 19413 Feb 2025
Ana María Iriarte23 Jun 19274 Feb 202517 Mar 2025 ... that Ana María Iriarte (pictured) made her professional opera debut in 1945, retired from the stage in 1960, and created a foundation promoting zarzuela in 2006?
Hans-Peter Lehmann15 Dec 19345 Feb 2025
Edith Mathis11 Feb 19389 Feb 2025
Maria Tipo23 Dec 193110 Feb 2025
Sigrid Metz-Göckel18 Aug 194011 Feb 2025
Vladimír Válek2 Sep 193516 Feb 2025
Ilkka Kuusisto26 Apr 193320 Feb 2025
Ricardo Kanji1 Mar 194824 Feb 2025
Simon Lindley10 Oct 194825 Feb 2025
Ferenc Rados26 Oct 193425 Feb 2025
Jean-Louis Pichon18 Sep 19484 Mar 2025?
Edesio Alejandro28 Mar 19585 Mar 2025
Hans Peter Korff24 Aug 19429 Mar 2025
Sofia Gubaidulina24 Oct 193113 Mar 2025
Manfred Schukowski16 Jan 192814 Mar 2025
Alan Cuckston2 Jul 194022 Mar 2025
Ray Barra3 Jan 193027 Mar 2025
Hans-Josef Klauck4 Jun 194627 Mar 2025
Barbara Frischmuth5 Jul 194130 Mar 20255 May 2025 ... that novelist Barbara Frischmuth argues that humans should not presume to rule over other species?
Enrique Bátiz4 May 194230 Mar 2025
Peter Stuhlmacher18 Jan 19325 Apr 2025
Roberto De Simone25 Aug 19336 Apr 2025
Roberto Cani17 Oct 19679 Apr 2025
Peter Seiffert4 Jan 195414 Apr 2025
Werner Thissen3 Sep 193815 Apr 2025
Peter Ablinger15 Mar 195917 Apr 2025
Waltraut Haas9 Jun 192723 Apr 2025
Kari Løvaas13 May 193924 Apr 2025
Charles Beare22 May 193726 Apr 2025
Christfried Schmidt26 Nov 193229 Apr 2025
May Abrahamse6 May 19305 May 2025
Vakhtang Machavariani19 Feb 19516 May 2025
Margot Friedländer5 Nov 19219 May 2025
Matthew Best6 Feb 195710 May 2025
Alena Veselá7 Jul 192311 May 20251 Jul 2025 ... that at age 101, Alena Veselá was present at the cornerstone ceremony for a new concert hall in Brno, which she had promoted for decades?
Alla Osipenko16 Jun 193215 May 2025
Luigi Alva10 Apr 192715 May 2025
Jadwiga Rappé1 Jan 194216 May 2025
David Cordier1 May 195919 May 2025
Yuri Vladimirov24 Feb 195219 May 2025
Yury Grigorovich2 Jan 192719 May 2025
Marthe Cohn13 Apr 192020 May 2025
Per Nørgård13 Jul 193228 May 2025
Susann McDonald26 May 193529 May 2025
Charles Wadsworth21 May 192929 May 2025
Pierre Nora17 Nov 19312 Jun 2025
Klaus König26 May 19347 June 2025
Vladyslav Gorai5 Aug 19658 June 202530 Jun 2025... that operatic tenor Vladyslav Gorai was a Merited Artist of Ukraine who died while on a volunteer mission during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Günther Uecker13 Mar 193014 Jun 2025
Joel Shapiro27 Sep 194114 June 2025
Gertrud Leutenegger7 Dec 194814 June 2025
Alfred Brendel5 Jan 193117 June 2025
Arnaldo Pomodoro23 Jun 192622 Jun 2025
Lalo Schifrin21 Jun 193226 Jun 2025
Gilda Cruz-Romo12 Feb 194028 Jun 2025
Stuart Burrows7 Feb 193329 Jun 2025
Helena Tattermuschová28 Jan 19336 Jul 2025
Ihor Poklad10 Sep 19419 Jul 2025
Raymond Guiot30 Oct 193011 Jul 2025
Claus Peymann7 Jun 193716 Jul 202512 Sep 2025 ... that the 1966 production of Peter Handke's Offending the Audience, directed by Claus Peymann at the Theater am Turm, has been described as "the beginning of modern theatre"?
Gary Karr20 Nov 194116 Jul 2025
Roger Norrington16 Mar 193418 Jul 2025
Béatrice Uria-Monzon28 Dec 196319 Jul 202527 Sep 2025 ... that Béatrice Uria-Monzon, in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, preferred a "meditative" and "dreamy" performance over a "sexy" one?
David Rendall11 Oct 194821 Jul 2025
Doris Gercke7 Feb 193725 Jul 2025
Herbert Brandl17 Jan 195928 Jul 20257 Sep 2025 ... that Herbert Brandl once created a large mountain painting in about 15 minutes?
Lena Cronqvist31 Dec 193829 Jul 2025
Fritz Lobinger22 Jan 19383 Aug 2025
Antonio Oteiza26 Jun 19264 Aug 20257 Sep 2025 ... that Antonio Oteiza (pictured) was a missionary in Latin America but from 1961 focused on creating religious art, which he felt had more impact than sermons?
Salvador Chuliá Hernández19 May 19445 Aug 202529 Sep 1925 ... that Salvador Chuliá composed Tríptico elegíaco para un percusionista for orchestra in memory of his son?
Wolfgang Kuhlmann19 Oct 19397 August 2025
Sheila Jordan18 Nov 192811 Aug 2025
Aino Pervik22 Apr 193212 Aug 2025
Joachim Grubich16 Jan 193516 Aug 2025
Herwig Schopper24 Feb 192419 Aug 2025
Zhanna Kolodub1 Jan 193028 Aug 2025
Lourdes Ambriz20 Jan 195828 Aug 20255 Oct 2025 ... that Lourdes Ambriz, singing voice of Belle in the Spanish version of Beauty and the Beast, became the artistic director of the Mexican national opera?
Rodion Shchedrin16 Dec 193229 August 2025
Klaus Thunemann19 Apr 193729 Aug 2025
Ruth Weiss26 Jul 19245 Sep 2025
Christoph von Dohnányi8 Sep 19296 Sep 2025
Inge Brück12 Oct 19368 Sep 2025
Siegmund Nimsgern29 Oct 194614 Sep 2025
Roland Pidoux14 Jan 194021 Sep 2025
Dieter Kaufmann22 Apr 194123 Sep 2025
Juraj Bartusz23 Oct 193325 Sep 2025
Franz Grundheber27 Sep 193727 Sep 2025
Martin Neary28 Mar 194027 Sep 2025
Claus Offe16 Mar 19371 Oct 2025
Lotte Ledl16 Mar 19305 Oct 202521 Dec 2025 ... that Lotte Ledl, who played characters at the Vienna Burgtheater, in Heimatfilme, in literature adaptations and in crime series, was awarded an honorific title at the age of 89?
Theo Jörgensmann29 Sep 19486 Oct 2025
Wanda Perdelwitz13 Feb 19846 Oct 2025plan
Bernhard Klee19 Apr 193610 Oct 2025
Roberta Alexander3 Mar 194914 Oct 2025
Klaus Doldinger12 May 193616 Oct 2025
David Wilde25 Feb 193523 Oct 2025
Benita Valente19 Oct 193424 Oct 2025
Hans Jörg Stetter8 Apr 193027 Oct 2025
Eike Wilm Schulte13 Oct 193931 Oct 20256 Apr 2014 ... that baritone Eike Wilm Schulte, who performed more than 100 roles since 1966, stepped in at the Bayreuth Festival as Gunther in Götterdämmerung?
Armand Avril2 Dec 19261 Nov 20254 Jan 2026 ... that Armand Avril travelled in 1960 for a year in Africa, where he was inspired to assemble "bottle caps, clothespins, glue, nails and empty tin cans"?
Stanislaus Kennedy19 Jun 19393 Nov 20253 Jan 2026 ... that the social work of Sister Stan was praised by two presidents of Ireland?
Willi Gundlach15 May 19296 Nov 202525 Dec 2017 ... that the musicologist Willi Gundlach, who founded the chamber choir of Technical University of Dortmund, trained volunteers to sing a Bach cantata in one day, including Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
Gisela Bock28 Jul 19427 Nov 2025
Stefka Evstatieva7 May 19479 Nov 2025
Thomas Daniel Schlee26 Oct 195710 Nov 2025
Carmen Moreno30 Jul 192611 Nov 202521 Jan 2026 ... that Carmen Moreno was a vocalist with a Polish jazz group in 1951, and performed with her granddaughter Anna Serafińska in 2010?
Gertrude Degenhardt1 Oct 194012 Nov 20254 Jan 2021... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
Donald McIntyre22 Oct 193413 Nov 2025
Matthias Schuke7 Jul 195518 Nov 2025
Jean-Claude Éloy15 Jun 193819 Nov 2025
Guy Morançon5 Dec 192725 Nov 2025
Lorenz Weinrich20 Aug 192927 Nov 2025
Frank Gehry28 Feb 19295 Dec 2025
Margaret Jane Wray17 Dec 19625 Dec 2025plan
Jubilant Sykes19548 Dec 20253 Feb 2026 ... that the baritone Jubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominated Mass?
Hans Roericht15 Nov 19328 Dec 2025
Anda-Louise Bogza27 Feb 196513 Dec 2025
Thomas Johannes Mayer11 Jul 193215 Dec 202523 Feb 2026... that Thomas Johannes Mayer went from performing jazz, rock, and punk, to portraying operatic characters such as Wotan and Wozzeck?
Hans van Manen11 Jul 193217 Dec 2025
Isaiah Jackson22 Jan 194524 Dec 2025
Justus Zeyen9 Jun 1963Dec 2025
Jonathan Powell196927 Dec 2025plan
Gary Graffman14 Oct 192827 Dec 2025
Ruth Wagner18 Oct 194028 Dec 202530 Dec5–6 Jande++8 Mar 2026 ... that Ruth Wagner, the minister of culture in Hesse from 1999 to 2003, was nicknamed Mother Courage of Hesse? (IWD)
Rudi Spring17 Mar 196228 Dec 20256 Dec 2010 ... that composer Rudi Spring accompanied Salome Kammer in songs and chansons at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Ritva Auvinen18 Oct 19322 Jan 202628 Feb 2026 ... that opera singer Ritva Auvinen (pictured) also worked as a gymnastics and swimming teacher?
Rolf Riehm15 Jun 19373 Jan 202620 Jul 2019 ... that the oboist and composer Rolf Riehm taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000 and wrote an opera, Sirenen, for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt?
Andrew Carter13 Dec 19395 Jan 202626 Oct 2018... that Benedicite, composed by Andrew Carter for choir, children's choir, and orchestra, was inspired by restored ceiling bosses in York Minster?
John Wallace14 Apr 194911 Jan 2026
Miroslava Pešíková11 Aug 194611 Jan 202619 Jan18–19 Jancs+6 Mar 2026 ... that Miroslava Pešíková was a ballerina at the National Theatre in Prague for 28 years in 47 roles?
Francis Buchholz19 Feb 195022 Jan 2026
Bernhard Waldenfels17 Mar 193423 Jan 202623 Jan 2026 ... that Bernhard Waldenfels discussed "black holes of everyday life" in a book subtitled Challenges of Phenomenology?
Richie Beirach23 May 194726 Jan 2026
Tamás Vásáry23 May 19475 Feb 2026
Helmuth Rilling29 May 193311 Feb 2026
Lambert Hamel7 Jun 194013 Feb 2026
José van Dam25 Aug 194017 Feb 2026
Roman Kofman15 Jun 193624 Feb 2026
Käthe Menzel-Jordan7 Apr 19161 Mar 2026
Gustav Gunsenheimer10 Mar 19343 Mar 202610 Mar 2016 ... that the composer of Die Versuchung Jesu, a Gospel motet on the temptation of Christ, has the devil speak, not sing, at times in canon?
Bernard Rands2 Mar 19344 Mar 2026
Ingrid Schmithüsen18 Feb 19606 Mar 20264 Apr 2026 ... that soprano Ingrid Schmithüsen performed a repertoire of more than 4000 art songs in a recital series she founded in Cologne?
Hermann Kulke30 May 193810 Mar 2026
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson23 Sep 195213 Mar 2026
Alexander Kluge14 Feb 193225 Mar 2026
Álvaro Cassuto17 Nov 19386 Apr 2026
Christian Schwarz-Schilling19 Nov 19306 Apr 2026
Osvaldas Balakauskas19 Dec 193715 Apr 2026
Oleg Maisenberg29 Apr 194516 Apr 2026
Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden19 Jun 193719 Apr 2026
Ruth Slenczynska15 Jan 192522 Apr 2026
Michael Tilson Thomas21 Dec 194422 Apr 2026plan
Jean-Bernard Pommier17 Aug 194423 Apr 2026
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