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.
- 1572Johannes Vodnianus Campanus was born — Czech poet, playwright, and composer. source 454 years ago
- 1858Alexandre Pierre François Boëly died — French pianist and composer. source 168 years ago
- 1862Luise Greger was born. 164 years ago
- 1906Oscar Levant was born — American pianist, composer, and actor. source 120 years ago
- 1907Willem van Otterloo was born — Dutch conductor and composer. source 119 years ago
- 1919Achilles Alferaki died — Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog. source 107 years ago
- 1944Amy Marcy Beach died. 82 years ago
- 1973Kristoffer Zegers was born — Dutch pianist and composer. source 53 years ago
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