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.
- 1693Johann Caspar Kerll died — German organist and composer. source 333 years ago
- 1741Johann Joseph Fux died — Austrian composer and theorist. source 285 years ago
- 1863Hugo Becker was born — German cellist and composer. source 163 years ago
- 1870Leopold Godowsky was born — Polish-American pianist and composer. source 156 years ago
- 1874Friedrich Burgmüller died. 152 years ago
- 1883Richard Wagner died. 143 years ago
- 1921Jeanne Demessieux was born — French pianist and composer. source 105 years ago
- 1945William Sleator was born — American author and composer. source 81 years ago
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