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.
- 1666Nicholas Lanier died — English composer and painter. source 360 years ago
- 1674Matthias Weckmann died. 352 years ago
- 1704Marc-Antoine Charpentier died — French composer. source 322 years ago
- 1762Charles Frederick Horn was born — German-English composer and educator. source 264 years ago
- 1797Samuel Lover was born — Irish composer, writer and painter. source 229 years ago
- 1842Arrigo Boito was born — Italian journalist, author, and composer. source 184 years ago
- 1877Rudolph Ganz was born — Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor. source 149 years ago
- 1929André Messager died — French pianist, composer, and conductor. source 97 years ago
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