They died too young - artists you wish had lived longer
Posted by: joerand on 02 September 2017
The most tragic five for me that died of circumstances beyond their control: Buddy Holly, Mozart, John Lennon, Jim Croce, and Warren Zevon.
As for sad, self-induced deaths: Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and (debatably) Jimi Hendrix. All members of The 27 Club.
No doubt each was industrious in their craft and had a lot more to offer.
Lee Morgan......, and so many more jazz artists...
Bert Schurink posted:Beyond control is a bit a definition but I would add...
Michael Jackson
Prince
Chester Bennington
Thank God for that, I was born in the same year as Prince and MJ!
Beyond their control: Clifford Brown and Scott Le Faro. Both car crash deaths.
Walter Becker of Steely Dan. RIP.
Dozey posted:Walter Becker of Steely Dan. RIP.
That is very sad news indeed.
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I understand he missed concerts earlier in the summer due to illness, but the news nevertheless a great shock. I was looking forward to seeing Becker at their London gig in October.
Max_B posted:This post's average replies show me three things: that forum members have mostly knowledge of pop/rock 'artists', even some really (to my eyes) minor and obscure
Just to go against that grain a bit (well, the pop/rock bit, certainly not the relatively obscure part) I'll mention Chuck Schuldiner (34) and Johnny Morrow (28).
Both are likely way off the musical radar of anyone on this forum, but both have also been much missed since their tragically early deaths.
Sam Cooke
Otis Redding
Patsy Cline and Sam Cooke were on my "extended list" as well.
Also Ritchie Valens, most tragically only age 17 when he crashed with Buddy.
I always thought he looked much older.
In jazz, the wonderful Bix Beiderbecke, who died aged just 28 and Bunny Berigan who was 33 when cirrhosis got him.
In classical, the two pupils of Schoenberg; Alban Berg, who was sadly killed by blood poisoning from an insect sting aged 50, preventing him finishing his opera Lulu and Anton Webern, killed by an American soldier at the end of the war aged 61.
Florestan posted:A small selection of important composers for me and the age they were when they died. I would add more but stopped at 50 years.
Lili Boulanger: 24 years old
Giovanni Pergolesi: 26 years old
Franz Schubert: 31 years old
Wolfgang Mozart: 35 years old
Henry Purcell: 36 years old
Georges Bizet: 37 years old
Felix Mendelssohn: 38 years old
George Gershwin: 38 years old
Carl Maria von Weber: 39 years old
Frédéric Chopin: 39 years old
Fanny Mendelssohn: 41 years old
Alexander Scriabin: 43 years old
Modest Mussorgsky: 43 years old
Anton Arensky: 44 years old
Ernest Chausson: 44 years old
Robert Schumann: 46 years old
Isaac Albéniz: 49 years old
Kurt Weill: 49 years old
Gustav Mahler: 50 years old
Add Beethoven: 56 years old
He was heading to some uncharted territory towards the end if his life ( last String Quartet ) it would have been interesting what would have developed after that.
Also, Bruckner. I want to hear what he had in mind for the last movement of his last Symphony.
Another innovator: Charlie Parker: 35 years old
The Belgian viola da gamba player, Sophie Waliton (1965-2005).
I discovered Art Pepper's music in 1982, the year in which he died, aged 56. He had a difficult early life due to addiction and imprisonment but found a renewed spark in his later years. His late 70s albums are just wonderful. I'd have loved to have seen him play live.
Haim's post just reminded me of someone very special (a true artist):
Daria Telizyn (pianist): Died in 2005 at 44 years old
Other wonderful artists who died too young. Again, I drew the cutoff at 50.
William Kapell: 31 years old
Dino Ciani: 32 years old
Dinu Lipatti: 33 years old
Mihaela Ursuleasa: 33 years old
Youri Egorov: 33 years old
Fritz Wunderlich: 35 years old
Dennis Brain: 36 years old
Scott Ross: 38 years old
Kathleen Ferrier: 41 years old
Julius Katchen: 42 years old
István Kertész: 43 years old
Enrico Caruso: 48 years old
Ferenc Fricsay: 48 years old
Jussi Bjorling: 49 years old
Christian Ferras: 49 years old
Glenn Gould: 50 years old (just two days after turning 50)
Janis Joplin
Eoink, I think you've put this in the wrong thread!
Apologies,to anyone who saw my misplaced post and thought for a moment that Mary Black had died. And thanks to David,for pointing it out to me.
Hank Williams
Bill Evans. Left us at the age of 51. IMHO, the finest jazz pianist of the modern era. We also lost Scott LaFaro, the bass player in the Bill Evans Trio at 25.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: 52 years old
Guido Cantelli: 36 years old.
He was the closest maestro to take over Toscanini style but sadly he cherished in an airplane crash just before his career was to take of big. ( he was considered to be a music director for NYP ) From a few of his records, I can hear the same type of precision and exactness I hear from Toscanini's. ( albeit perhaps a bit cooler ) Those who was close to Toscaninini nevre told him that Cantelli was dead. Toscanini was in a filing health and he, too died a few month later.
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Jeff Buckley. ( Sorry to reiterate others here.)
Gram Parsons.
Blaze Foley. ( He was not young. But died anonymous )
I don't think anyone mentioned Lowell George.
And Duane Allman was in one list, but then we need to add Berry Oakley.
Leonard Cohen
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