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.
- 1622Johann Sebastiani was born — German composer. source 404 years ago
- 1689Jacques Aubert was born — French violinist and composer. source 337 years ago
- 1743Christian Ehregott Weinlig was born — German cantor and composer. source 283 years ago
- 1852Charles Villiers Stanford was born. 174 years ago
- 1906Jean Henri Ravina died. 120 years ago
- 1923Donald Swann was born — Welsh-English pianist and composer. source 103 years ago
- 1937Valentyn Sylvestrov was born — Ukrainian pianist and composer. source 89 years ago
- 1943Philip Moore was born — English organist and composer. source 83 years ago
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