Remembering Gabriel García Márquez

Nobel prize winner and beloved Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez died last week. He left behind a legacy of books and short stories that were admired around the world.

Obituaries:

The Telegraph
Der Spiegel
Le Monde

He also inspired music, much of it recent, as this list will show:

• 1984: Orchestermusik II: Homenaje a Gabriel García Márquez for orchestra, op. 47
  By Helge Jung
• 1989: Ikarus, ballett for clarinet, trombone, violin, double bass, guitar, piano, percussion, and tape.
  By Hans-Christian von Dadelsen and Babette Koblenz
  Based on "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes”
• 1991: Eréndira: Kammeroper in sechs Szenen
  By Violeta Dinescu and Monika Rothmaier
• 1997: Florencia en el Amazonas: opera en dos actos
  By Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain
  "En homenaje a Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

Listen to this excerpt from the Houston Grand Opera

• 2001: El ahogado más hermoso del mundo: para clarinete y piano
  By Juan Piñera
• 2004: Der Herbst des Patriarchen, opera
  By Giorgio Battistelli, libretto by Gotthart Kuppel
  Based on El otoño del patriarca
• 2005: Historias sin palabras pour guitare solo
  By Máximo Diego Pujol
  Based on Doce cuentos peregrinos

Listen to “Muerte en primavera,” the last movement in this work.

• 2006: A very old man with enormous wings: a new opera in two short acts
  By Dylan Schneider
  Based on Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
• 2008: Love and Other Demons, opera in two acts
  By Péter Eötvös
  Based on Del amor y otros demonios
• 2008: Of love and death in forgotten shadows for orchestra
  By Christopher J Levin
  In part inspired by Del amor y otros demonios