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.
- 1556Martin Agricola died — German composer and theorist. source 470 years ago
- 1843Heinrich von Herzogenberg was born — Austrian composer and conductor. source 183 years ago
- 1849Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner died. 177 years ago
- 1899Ernest Chausson died. 127 years ago
- 1901Frederick Loewe was born — Austrian-American composer. source 125 years ago
- 1913Tikhon Khrennikov was born — Russian pianist and composer. source 113 years ago
- 1918Arrigo Boito died — Italian author, poet, and composer. source 108 years ago
- 1934Frederick Delius died. 92 years ago
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