Major Composer Anniversaries

2017

60th birthdays
Chaya Czernowin, 7 December

75th birthdays
Volker David Kirchner, 25 June
Daniel Roth, 31 October

80th birthdays
Valentin Silvestrov, 30 September

85th birthdays
Alexander Goehr, 10 August
Rodion Shchedrin, 16 December

90th birthdays
Wilhelm Killmayer, 21 August

150th birthdays
Charles Koechlin, 27 November

75th anniversaries of death
Erwin Schulhoff, 8 June

2018

50th birthdays
Kenneth Hesketh, 20 July

60th birthdays
Douglas J. Cuomo, 13 February

75th birthdays
Gavin Bryars, 16 January
Edward Cowie, 17 August
Joseph Schwantner, 22 March

80th birthdays
Ingomar Grünauer, 11 August

85th birthdays
Toshi Ichiyanagi, 4 February
Krzysztof Penderecki, 23 November
Morton Subotnick, 14 April

90th birthdays
John Duffy, 23 June
Gerd Natschinski, 23 August

95th birthdays 
Siegfried Köhler, 30 July

100th birthdays
Bernd Alois Zimmermann, 20 March

25th anniversaries of death
Frank Zappa, 4 December

2019

60th birthdays
Steve Martland, 10 October

70th birthdays
John Casken, 15 July

75th birthdays
Peter Eötvös, 2 January

80th birthdays

Tigran Mansurian, 27 January
Heinz Holliger, 21 May

85th birthdays
Bernard Rands, 2 March
Anthony Gilbert, 29 July
Peter Maxwell-Davies, 8 September

90th birthdays
Joji Yuasa, 12 August

95th birthdays
Klaus Huber, 30 November

150th birthdays
Hans Pfitzner, 5 May

200th birthdays
Jacques Offenbach, 20 June

25th anniversaries of death
Kurt Hessenberg, 17 August

75th anniversaries of death
Viktor Ullmann, 1 January
Nikolai Roslawez, 4 January

2020

60th birthdays
Mark-Anthony Turnage, 10 June

80th birthdays
Alvin Singleton, 28 December

90th birthdays
Dieter Schnebel, 14 March
Harald Banter, 16 March
Jean Guillou, 18 April

95th birthdays
Mikis Theodorakis, 29 July