Monthly Archives: March 2014

Today in music history, 1685, German keyboardist, violinist, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born to a musical family. Another musical great was born on the same date in the year 1732, Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. He, too, learned … Continue reading →

Today in music history, 1881, Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was born in Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (modern Sânnicolau Mare, Romania). Having composed music for various genres and instruments, opera, ballet, folk and children’s music, solo piano, violin … Continue reading →