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.
- 1770Ludwig van Beethoven was born — composer. source 256 years ago
- 1775François-Adrien Boieldieu was born — French pianist and composer. source 251 years ago
- 1783Johann Adolph Hasse died — German composer and educator. source 243 years ago
- 1847Augusta Mary Anne Holmès was born. 179 years ago
- 1882Zoltán Kodály was born — Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist. source 144 years ago
- 1899Noël Coward was born — English actor, playwright, and composer. source 127 years ago
- 1921Camille Saint-Saëns died. 105 years ago
- 1956Lizzy Mercier Descloux was born — French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter. source 70 years ago
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