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.
- 1602Hernando de Cabezón died — Spanish organist and composer. source 424 years ago
- 1609Giammateo Asola died — Italian priest and composer. source 417 years ago
- 1708John Blow died — English organist and composer. source 318 years ago
- 1724Giovanni Battista Cirri was born — Italian cellist and composer. source 302 years ago
- 1729Anton Cajetan Adlgasser was born — German organist and composer. source 297 years ago
- 1771Pierre Baillot was born — French violinist and composer. source 255 years ago
- 1832Henry Clay Work was born — American composer and songwriter. source 194 years ago
- 1865Paul Dukas was born — French composer, scholar, and critic. source 161 years ago
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