Mikis Theodorakis
Mikis Theodorakis dies at the age of 96. Mikis Theodorakis, the most famous of Greek contemporary composers, died today, Thursday, in Athens, aged 96. According to his website, he died at 8.35 a.m. of cardiorespiratory arrest. The author of an enormous body of work, he became famous above all for…
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus, the author of “Judith”, dies. The German composer, conductor and festival conductor Siegfried Matthus died on Friday 27 August at the age of 87. Born in Mallenuppen, which today belongs to Russia and was then East Prussia in the Weimar Republic, after World War II his family remained…
Raymond M. Schafer
Raymond Murray Schafer died at 88. The Canadian composer, professor, music educator, ecologist and visual artist Raymond Murray Schafer, creator in 1970 of the term “soundscape” to refer to the recording of environmental sounds that allow us to appreciate the sonority of a place, died last Saturday at the age…
Peter Rehberg
Peter Rehberg is dead at 53. Anglo-Austrian musician Peter Rehberg passed away on 22 July, following a heart attack. A well-known figure in the fields of electronic and ambient music, he initially released his records under the alias Pita, as well as under his own name. He was one of…
Louis Andriessen
Dutch composer Louis Andriessen dies at 82. Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has died at the age of 82 at De Hogeweyk, a nursing home near Amsterdam, his wife told the ANP news agency on 1 July 2021. Andriessen was considered his country’s most important contemporary composer. His music is influenced…
Jon Hassell
Composer Jon Hassell dies at the age of 84. The influential American avant-garde composer Jon Hassell passed away on 26 June, his family confirmed in a statement on Facebook on Saturday night. His friend and collaborator Brian Eno had launched a GoFundMe in April 2020 to raise money for Hassell’s…
Ester Mägi
Grand old lady of Estonian music Ester Mägi dies. Estonian composer Ester Mägi died yesterday at the age of ninety-nine, just a few months shy of her hundredth birthday. The author of an extensive oeuvre, her music was never at the centre of the stylistic disputes that characterised the music…
Harold Budd
Harold Budd, victim of covid-19, dies at 84. The American composer Harold Budd, one of the most influential in the field of ambient music, has died at the age of 84 as a result of covid-19. Harold Montgomery Budd was born in Los Angeles on 24 May 1936 and grew…