There are some big musical centenaries in 2024. But what about these six once-respected yet now relatively obscure composers, who all passed away 100 years ago? Clive Paget examines their careers and discusses their music with the conductors and musicians who are championing their cause.

Monckton, Lyapunov, Busoni, Stanford, Herbert & Dubois

For habitués of the musical obituary columns, 1924 was a decent year. Among the luminaries to pass away were Giacomo Puccini and Gabriel Fauré, both of them fêted in life and duly celebrated with the grandest of obsequies. The death of Puccini, made a Senator by Mussolini, was an occasion for national mourning, while Fauré was given a state funeral at Paris’s Église de la Madeleine. Today, performances and recordings of their...