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.
- 1587Samuel Scheidt was born — German organist, composer, and educator. source 439 years ago
- 1656Georg Reutter was born — Austrian organist and composer. source 370 years ago
- 1689Jan Josef Ignác Brentner was born — Czech composer. source 337 years ago
- 1801Vincenzo Bellini was born — Italian composer. source 225 years ago
- 1875Emīls Dārziņš was born — Latvian composer and conductor. source 151 years ago
- 1899Rezső Seress was born — Hungarian pianist and composer. source 127 years ago
- 1900Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan — source of Flight of the Bumblebee — premiered in Moscow. 126 years ago
- 1933John Barry was born — English-American composer and conductor. source 93 years ago
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