Here’s a list of notable deaths in classical music for 2012. If there’s anyone we’ve left out, please leave the name in the comments section.
Elliott Carter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dave Brubeck, Ruggiero Ricci, Richard Adler, Ravi Shankar, Zvi Zeitlin, Eduard Khil, Jacques Barzun, Hans Werner Henze, Roman Totenberg, Edward Shanbrom, Marvin Hamlisch, Maurice Sendak, Evelyn Lear, Grigory Frid, Nan Merriman, Jonathan Harvey, Gloria Davy, Paavo Berglund, Alexis Weissenberg, Maurice André, Gustav Leonhardt, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Charles Rosen, Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Richard Rodney Bennett.
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