Angela Hewitt [Keith Saunders]

LIKE so many composers of the past, Mozart never had the chance to be anything but a young man: he was dead at 35. But musicologists nonetheless divide his output into early, middle and late. And at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Nov 8, the eminent pianist Angela Hewitt and London Mozart Players are surveying the whole span – with a work completed in his mid-20s as a centrepiece, the so-called “Jeunehomme” Concerto. The nickname has a complicated history, but that it could apply to almost everything Mozart wrote is telling. Details: stmartin-in-the-fields.org

• Another early death, on people’s minds around this week of Remembrance, was that of George Butterworth: the English composer who perished in the Battle of the Somme, aged 31, and was buried in the mud – from which his remains have never been recovered. His work features in a day of early 20th-century British music given by the Nash Ensemble across two concerts at Wigmore Hall, Nov 9. Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Elgar fill the programmes. Roderick Williams sings. wigmore-hall.org.uk

• Still more remembering comes in what’s become an annual tribute to Peter Tranchell, a minor but much-loved composer who spent a lifetime teaching at Cambridge. The concert runs at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, with classy singers Mary Bevan and James Gilchrist. And it includes the winners of a prize for young composers set up in Tranchell’s name – which gets liberally toasted in alcohol during the course of the proceedings. peter-tranchell.uk

Gilchrist fans will want to know that he also appears, Nov 13, with pianist William Vann in a song recital at Leighton House: an intimate but otherwise fabulous venue near Holland Park. On the bill is Britten’s song cycle Winter Words, which sets some of Thomas Hardy’s most poignant musings on the cycle of life and death. For slightly greater cheer there’s also Schumann’s Dichterliebe. kcmusic.org.uk

• As a devoutly Catholic country, Poland has produced an awful lot of choral works for church performance; and quite how much you wouldn’t realise until you went to the annual concert series called (with a good heart, if cheesily) Joy and Devotion that used to run at St Martin-in-the-Fields. It’s now switched location to St James, Piccadilly, with concerts Nov 8, 9,10 – largely of composers you won’t have heard of, but might think worth exploring. Various choirs. Nov 10 is the illustrious Sixteen. sjp.org.uk

• More choral music for the time of year surfaces at Cadogan Hall, Nov 12, when Daniel Hyde conducts the RPO and City of London Choir through Mozart’s Requiem. And if you’re trying to place the name Daniel Hyde, he’s better known as director of music at King’s Cambridge – where he’ll soon be back with all the choral stuff for Advent and Christmas. Here’s a chance to glimpse his other life, having taken charge of the CLC in September. cadoganhall.com

• Finally, for something neither mournful nor memorial (though its storyline does happen to be about human sacrifice), Stravinsky’s brutalist ballet score The Rite of Spring comes to the Barbican, Nov 10, in an LSO performance led by the emergent megastar of the conducting circuit, Klaus Makela. A burningly hot ticket. barbican.org.uk