Kevin Oldham was one of the composers who died of AIDS, he was also the one who began The Estate Project, to collect and preserve the work of composers and artits who were dying of AIDS
When the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS was established in 1991, its first public face was a composer. Thirty-two year-old Kevin Oldham appeared on the cover of The New York Times on December 27, 1992, in an article announcing this new initiative to assist artists who face foreshortened lives in planning for the care and preservation of their creative legacies.
"Whether you stay alive or not seems to be the trivial part," Oldham told The Times. "It's your work itself that must have a life of its own. If I can make sure that my music will continue to have life, that seems to be the more important consideration."
Kevin Oldham Symphony for Organ
Kevin Oldham died when he was 33, I never knew him, different musical circles.
Here is an article about just the composers who were included, and a lot of others could have been (see the list of organists and the comments about that). I have counted the number of people I knew who died of AIDS and gave up at about 70. It was just too depressing to remember, almost all of them of them young, in the prime of life, as they say.
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