Anniversaries of composers' births and deaths offer excellent opportunities to spotlight their works in services or concerts, to revisit old friends and to perform pieces for the first time.
Here are compositions by this year's "anniversary composers" to be found in our catalogue.
Anniversaries 2026
Hugo Staehle (200. Anniversary)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (150. Anniversary)
James Kent (250. Anniversary of death)
Franz Danzi (200. Anniversary of death)
Carl Maria von Weber (200. Anniversary of death)
Edouard Batiste (150. Anniversary of death)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (150. Anniversary of death)
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (125. Anniversary of death)
Franz Reimann (100. Anniversary of death)
Charles Wood (100. Anniversary of death)
Anniversaries 2027
Malcolm Archer (75. Anniversary)
Maurice Duruflé (125. Anniversary)
Johann Ernst Eberlin (325. Anniversary)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (150. Anniversary)
Johann Caspar Kerll (400. Anniversary)
John Marsh (275. Anniversary)
Gustav Adolf Merkel (200. Anniversary)
Peter Planyavsky (80. Anniversary)
Josef Scherer (125. Anniversary)
Charles Villiers Stanford (175. Anniversary)
Anton Cajetan Adlgasser (250. Anniversary of death)
Ludwig van Beethoven (200. Anniversary of death)
Rudolf Bibl (125. Anniversary of death)
Carl Piutti (125. Anniversary of death)
Wilhelm Rudnick (100. Anniversary of death)
Friedrich Wilhelm Stade (125. Anniversary of death)