No question whatsoever whose year 2025 was: both in his first placing by a country mile and even in the composers who followed him, many with strong associations to him. That latter point must in itself say something about Boulez's influence both on musical life and thinking in general and on my interests in particular. The other major centenary, that of Berio, fared substantially less well: not, I think, what we should have been likely to expecr even 20 years ago. Why that might be is not immediately obvious, at least to me, but it is surely worth considering.
(As ever, one composer appearance in a concert scores; no further performances in that concert do.)
13 Boulez
5 Debussy, Mahler
4 Bach, Ravel, Stravinsky
3 Beethoven,
Chopin, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert
2 Berg, Cage,
Carter, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Liszt
1 John
Adams, Eduardo Aguilar, Julian Anderson, Benjamin Attahir, Bartók, Orlando Bass,
Georg Anton Benda, Berio, Birtwistle, Brahms, Britten, Bruckner, John Casken, Layale
Chaker, Anthony Cheung, Peter Maxwell Davies, Anthony Davis, James Dillon, Marcel
Dupré, Giovanni Gabrieli, Helen Grime, John Harbison, Hasse, Henze, Simon Holt,
Eva-Maria Houben, Dorothy Howell, Janáček, Golfam Khayam, Kurtág, Lachenmann, Ligeti,
Ursula Mamlok, Philippe Manoury, Colin Matthews, Cassandra Miller, Messiaen, Farnaz Modarresifar, Karl von
Ordonnez, Purcell, Daniel Purcell, Respighi, Roussel, Kareem Roustom, Saariaho,
Schoeck, Schoenberg, Schumann, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Stockhausen, Strauss, Varèse,
Claude Vivier, Weber, Webern, Weill, Austin Wulliman
