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.
- 1707Dieterich Buxtehude died. 319 years ago
- 1740Giovanni Paisiello was born — Italian composer and educator (probable;. source 286 years ago
- 1745Tomaso Antonio Vitali died — Italian violinist and composer. source 281 years ago
- 1814Adolf von Henselt was born. 212 years ago
- 1855Julius Röntgen was born — German-Dutch composer. source 171 years ago
- 1914Carlo Maria Giulini was born — Italian conductor and director. source 112 years ago
- 1914J. Merrill Knapp was born — American musicologist. source 112 years ago
- 1914Hank Snow was born — Canadian-American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. source 112 years ago
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