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.
- 1667Johann Jakob Froberger died — German organist and composer. source 359 years ago
- 1701Carl Heinrich Graun was born — German tenor and composer. source 325 years ago
- 1793Pietro Nardini died — Italian violinist and composer. source 233 years ago
- 1800Niccolò Piccinni died — Italian composer. source 226 years ago
- 1825Antonio Salieri died — Italian composer and conductor. source 201 years ago
- 1833Johannes Brahms was born. 193 years ago
- 1840P. I. Tchaikovsky was born. 186 years ago
- 1917Domenico Bartolucci was born — Italian cardinal and composer. source 109 years ago
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