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.
- 1460Gilles Binchois died — Flemish composer. source 566 years ago
- 1565Cipriano de Rore died — Flemish composer and teacher. source 461 years ago
- 1590Lodovico Agostini died — Italian priest, composer, and scholar. source 436 years ago
- 1593Gottfried Scheidt was born — German organist and composer. source 433 years ago
- 1685Giuseppe Matteo Alberti was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 341 years ago
- 1800Benjamin Franklin White was born — American singer and composer. source 226 years ago
- 1880Ildebrando Pizzetti was born — Italian composer, musicologist and critic. source 146 years ago
- 1908Pablo de Sarasate died — Spanish violinist and composer. source 118 years ago
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