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.
- 1497Francesco Canova da Milano was born — Italian composer. source 529 years ago
- 1613Giovanni Artusi died — Italian composer and theorist. source 413 years ago
- 1750Antonio Salieri was born — Italian composer and conductor. source 276 years ago
- 1893Ernest MacMillan was born — Canadian conductor and composer. source 133 years ago
- 1910Herman Berlinski was born — Polish-American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 116 years ago
- 1940Adam Makowicz was born — Polish-Canadian pianist and composer. source 86 years ago
- 1942Erwin Schulhoff died — Austro-Czech composer and pianist. source 84 years ago
- 1956John Debney was born — American composer and conductor. source 70 years ago
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