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.
- 1545Costanzo Festa died — Italian composer. source 481 years ago
- 1640Agostino Agazzari died — Italian composer and theorist. source 386 years ago
- 1707Michel Corrette was born — French organist, composer, and author. source 319 years ago
- 1756Giacomo Antonio Perti died — Italian composer. source 270 years ago
- 1864Eugen d'Albert was born — Scottish-German pianist and composer. source 162 years ago
- 1883Emilie Mayer died. 143 years ago
- 1911Martin Denny was born — American pianist and composer. source 115 years ago
- 1926Jacques Castérède was born — French pianist and composer. source 100 years ago
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