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.
- 1456Nicolas Grenon died — French composer. source 570 years ago
- 1688Domenico Zipoli was born — Italian missionary and composer. source 338 years ago
- 1720Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini was born — Italian harpsichord player and composer. source 306 years ago
- 1729Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born — French composer and academic. source 297 years ago
- 1837Johann Nepomuk Hummel died — Austrian pianist and composer. source 189 years ago
- 1849Frédéric Chopin died. 177 years ago
- 1892Herbert Howells was born — English organist, composer, and educator. source 134 years ago
- 1912Theodore Marier was born — American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School. source 114 years ago
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