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.
- 1594Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died. 432 years ago
- 1669Louis Marchand was born — French organist and composer. source 357 years ago
- 1677Jean-Baptiste Morin was born — French composer. source 349 years ago
- 1714Gottfried August Homilius was born — German organist and composer. source 312 years ago
- 1856Makar Yekmalyan was born — Armenian composer. source 170 years ago
- 1873Leo Fall was born — Austrian composer. source 153 years ago
- 1875Fritz Kreisler was born — Austrian-American violinist and composer. source 151 years ago
- 1909Carlo Acton died — Italian pianist and composer. source 117 years ago
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