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 Some Significant (and less so) British Composer Anniversaries for 2022: 

Bi-Centenaries:

Charles Edward Horsley

Henry Albert Lambeth

Henry David Leslie

Henry Wylde

150 Years:

Frederick Austin

Felix Borowski

Herman Finck

James Lyon

Alexander Maclean

Vincent Thomas

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Richard Henry Walthew

Centenaries:

Doreen Carwithen

Iain Hamilton

Thomas Eastwood

Timothy Moore

Ronald Smith

David Stone

Peter Tranchell

John Veale

Clearly, the main celebration in 2022 will be the 150^th Anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth on 12 October. Of significant interest are the Centenaries of Iain Hamilton, Doreen Carwithen and John Veale. Somehow, I feel that these three composers will be underplayed in the concert hall, on the radio and in the recording studio.

Of interest are the Centenaries of the American composer Lukas Foss and the Greek-French Iannis Xenakis. The year 1872 saw the birth of the Russian composer Aleksandr Scriabin. Finally, celebrating their 200^th Anniversary are German-Swiss Joseph Joachim Raff and the Belgian César Franck.