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.
- 1841Konstantinos Nikolopoulos died — Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist. source 185 years ago
- 1917Teresa Carreño died — Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor. source 109 years ago
- 1928Richard M. Sherman was born — American composer and director. source 98 years ago
- 1941Chick Corea was born — American pianist and composer. source 85 years ago
- 1957Jimmy Dorsey died — American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers). source 69 years ago
- 1962John Ireland died — English composer and educator. source 64 years ago
- 2006György Ligeti died — Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator. source 20 years ago
- 2015Fernando Brant died — Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer. source 11 years ago
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