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.
- 1590Gioseffo Zarlino died — Italian composer and theorist. source 436 years ago
- 1677Johann Ludwig Bach was born — German violinist and composer. source 349 years ago
- 1740Carl Michael Bellman was born — Swedish poet and composer. source 286 years ago
- 1781Josef Mysliveček died — Czech composer. source 245 years ago
- 1925Marie Jaëll died. 101 years ago
- 1937Birju Maharaj was born — Indian dancer, composer, singer and exponent of the Lucknow "Kalka-Bindadin" Gharana of Kathak dance. source 89 years ago
- 1960Jonathan Larson was born — American lyricist, composer, and playwright. source 66 years ago
- 2010Helen Tobias-Duesberg died — Estonian-American composer. source 16 years ago
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