Music history, daily
On This Day in Music
Composers born, composers lost, and pieces that met the world for the first time — and every name here is playable in the library.
- 1674Reinhard Keiser was born — German composer. source 352 years ago
- 1778Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi was born — Turkish Ney player and composer. source 248 years ago
- 1839John Knowles Paine was born — American composer and academic. source 187 years ago
- 1911Edwin Arthur Jones died — American violinist and composer. source 115 years ago
- 1939Johann Strauss III died — Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor. source 87 years ago
- 1940Barbara Buczek was born — Polish composer. source 86 years ago
- 1968Giorgos Theofanous was born — Greek-Cypriot composer and producer. source 58 years ago
- 1981Kazimierz Serocki died — Polish pianist and composer. source 45 years ago
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