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.
- 1880W. Otto Miessner was born — American composer and educator. source 146 years ago
- 1893Eugene Aynsley Goossens was born — English conductor and composer. source 133 years ago
- 1898Ernst Bacon was born — American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 128 years ago
- 1924Victor Herbert died — Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. source 102 years ago
- 1926Miles Davis was born — American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader. source 100 years ago
- 1938William Bolcom was born — American pianist and composer. source 88 years ago
- 1941Imants Kalniņš was born — Latvian composer. source 85 years ago
- 1943Alice Tegnér died. 83 years ago
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