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.
- 1629Sigismondo d'India died — Italian composer. source 397 years ago
- 1715James Nares was born — English organist and composer. source 311 years ago
- 1734Karl von Ordóñez was born — Austrian violinist and composer. source 292 years ago
- 1785Alexandre Pierre François Boëly was born — French pianist and composer. source 241 years ago
- 1892Germaine Tailleferre was born — French composer and educator. source 134 years ago
- 1893Martin Körber died — Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor. source 133 years ago
- 1941Johanna Müller-Hermann died — Austrian composer. source 85 years ago
- 2000Louis Applebaum died — Canadian composer and conductor. source 26 years ago
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