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.
- 1810Beethoven dated the manuscript of Für Elise. 216 years ago
- 1812Friedrich von Flotow was born — German composer. source 214 years ago
- 1861William Arms Fisher was born — American composer and music historian. source 165 years ago
- 1871Sigismond Thalberg died. 155 years ago
- 1880Mihkel Lüdig was born — Estonian organist, composer, and conductor. source 146 years ago
- 1891Sergei Prokofiev was born — Russian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 135 years ago
- 1894Nicolas Slonimsky was born — Russian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 132 years ago
- 1915Alexander Scriabin died. 111 years ago
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