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.
- 1522Franchinus Gaffurius died — Italian composer and theorist. source 504 years ago
- 1709Francesco Araja was born — Italian composer. source 317 years ago
- 1767Georg Philipp Telemann died. 259 years ago
- 1822E. T. A. Hoffmann died — German composer, critic, and jurist. source 204 years ago
- 1860Gustave Charpentier was born — French composer and conductor. source 166 years ago
- 1884Hans Rott died — Austrian organist and composer. source 142 years ago
- 1924Madan Mohan was born — Iraqi-Indian composer and director. source 102 years ago
- 1928William Russo was born — American trombonist, jazz, classical and theater composer. source 98 years ago
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