This is a List of memorials to composers.
It includes monuments, statues, busts by notable sculptors, museums, theatres, concert halls, parks, and similar places.
It does not list small plaques, portraits, music competitions, geographical features, or other things named in commemoration of composers.
| Composer | Name | Location | Date | Creator | Comments | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 
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St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany | 1908 | |||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 
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Beethoven Monument | Bonn, Germany | 1845 | Ernst Julius Hähnel | The first statue to a composer ever erected in Germany. |
| Frédéric Chopin | 
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Chopin Statue | Warsaw, Poland | 1926 | Wacław Szymanowski | Destroyed by German forces 1940; rebuilt 1958 |
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Frédéric Chopin monument | Żelazowa Wola, Poland | 1969 | Józef Gosławski | ||
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Birthplace of Frédéric Chopin | |||||
| Chopin Park | Chicago, USA | |||||
| John Coltrane | John Coltrane Home | Huntington, New York, USA | ||||
| Mikhail Glinka | .jpg)
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Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||||
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Kiev, Ukraine | |||||
| George Frideric Handel | 
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Statue "George Frederick Handel" [sic] | Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK | 1738 | Louis-François Roubiliac | |
| Franz Lehár | 
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Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria | ||||
| Gustav Mahler | Statue | Jihlava | 2010 | Jan Koblasa | Unveiled on 7 July 2010, Mahler's 150th anniversary[1] | |
| Statue | Horácké Theatre, Jihlava | Martin Laštovička | [2] | |||
| Statue | Toblach, Italy | [2] | ||||
| Bust | Milan Knobloch | [2] | ||||
| Bust | Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York[3] | Auguste Rodin | Presented by Alma Mahler to the Vienna Opera but later removed.[4] | |||
| other --> | At Guido Adler's instigation, a "Gustav Mahler Monument Committee" was founded on 29 November 1926 to create a Mahler monument in Vienna.[5] This project was shelved after the Anschluss and was never revived.[4] There was a street in Vienna named after Mahler, but it was renamed Meistersinger Street.[4] | |||||
| Felix Mendelssohn | 
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St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany | 2008 | The original statue designed by Werner Stein was first dedicated on May 26, 1892. It had been located on the east side of the Gewandhaus until November 9, 1936 when it was taken down by the National Socialists (Nazis) because of the composer’s Jewish background. | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 
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Vienna, Austria | ||||
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 
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Veliky Novgorod, Russia | 2009 | A. Rukavishnikov | Unveiled 14 June 2009 | |
| "The Last Concert" | World's Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA | Victor Bokarev | ||||
| Arnold Schoenberg | Arnold Schönberg Center | Vienna, Austria | 1998 | |||
| Schoenberg House | Mödling, near Vienna | 1999 | ||||
| Franz Schubert | Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria | 1872 | Karl Kundmann | Unveiled 15 May 1872[6][7] | ||
| Jean Sibelius | 70px | Sibelius Monument | Sibelius Park, Helsinki, Finland | 1967 | Eila Hiltunen | |
| UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France | Smaller copy of the above | |||||
| Robert Stolz | Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria | |||||
| Johann Strauss II | 
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Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria | 1921 | Edmund Hellmer | ||
| Igor Stravinsky | Stravinsky Fountain | Place Stravinsky, near Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France | 1983 | Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle | This contains no likeness of Stravinsky, but contains 16 sculptures that are inspired by his musical works. | |
| Giuseppe Verdi | .jpg)
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Giuseppe Verdi Monument | Verdi Square, New York City, USA | 1906 | Pasquale Civiletti |
References
edit- ^ Gustav Mahler 2010
- ^ a b c The Mahler Monument in Jihlava
- ^ FrugalFun.com
- ^ a b c Donald Mitchell, Gustav Mahler: The Wunderhorn Years: Chronicles and Commentaries
- ^ Gustav Mahler and Guido Adler: Records of a Friendship
- ^ Schubert memorial places
- ^ Scott Messing, Schubert in the European Imagination: Fin-de-siècle Vienna