An odder year than ever before and, let us hope, than ever again. I heard no composer of opera more than once; there was no Fidelio, even in Beethoven's anniversary year. Beethoven would surely have emerged considerably further ahead had that year truly got going. As it was, he squeaked past Mozart in the concert tally, while the two composers both received eleven in the final reckoning. (As ever, this is scored per concert/event rather than per piece; i.e. Igor Levit playing four Beethoven sonatas in the same recital counts as one, not four.)
Looked at another way, though, I still managed to hear music by a range of composers, from Abrahmsen to Zimmermann, a good number of contemporary composers amongst them.
Concert
Beethoven 11
Mozart 10
Bach 5
Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky 3
Berg, Schumann, Bernd Alois Zimmermann 2
Hans Abrahamsen, Georges Aperghis, George Benjamin, Boulez,
Brahms, Busoni, Isaac Cooper, Copland, Elgar, Samantha Fernando, Francesco
Filidei, Franck, Saed Haddad, Hindemith, Johann Casper Kerll, Janáček,
Christian Jost, Lachenmann, Mahler, William Marshall, Georg Muffat, Isabel
Mundry, Mussorgsky, Olli Mustonen, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Jean-Féry
Rebel, Wolfgang Rihm, Frederic Rzewski, Rebecca
Saunders, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Strauss, Wagner, Webern, Jörg
Widmann 1
Opera
Bizet, Cherubini, Debussy, Beat Furrer, Holst, Humperdinck, Janáček,
Mozart, Meyerbeer, Annelies Van Parys, Tom Smail, Wagner 1
Total
Beethoven, Mozart 11
Bach 5
Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky 3
Berg, Janáček, Schumann, Wagner, Bernd Alois
Zimmermann 2
Hans Abrahamsen, Georges Aperghis, George Benjamin, Bizet, Boulez, Brahms, Busoni, Cherubini, Isaac Cooper, Copland, Debussy, Elgar, Samantha Fernando, Francesco Filidei, Beat Furrer, Franck, Saed Haddad, Hindemith, Holst, Humperdinck, Johann Casper Kerll, Christian Jost, Lachenmann, Mahler, William Marshall, Meyerbeer, Georg Muffat, Isabel Mundry, Mussorgsky, Olli Mustonen, Nielsen, Annelies Van Parys, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Jean-Féry Rebel, Wolfgang Rihm, Frederic Rzewski, Rebecca Saunders, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Tom Smail, Strauss, Webern, Jörg Widmann 1
