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.
- 1847Mendelssohn’s Wedding March had its earliest documented use at a wedding. 179 years ago
- 1857Edward Elgar was born. 169 years ago
- 1863Felix Weingartner was born — Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 163 years ago
- 1878Wallace Hartley was born — English violinist and bandleader. source 148 years ago
- 1937Louis Vierne died — French organist and composer. source 89 years ago
- 1944Marvin Hamlisch was born — American composer and conductor. source 82 years ago
- 1968André Mathieu died — Canadian pianist and composer. source 58 years ago
- 2007Kentarō Haneda died — Japanese pianist and composer. source 19 years ago
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