On This Day in Music

Events in Music

  • 1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden, London
  • 1891 Jules Massenet's opera "Grisélidis" premieres in Paris
  • 1914 Henri Rabaud's opera "Marouf, savetier de Caire" premieres in Paris

Birthdays in Music

  • 1567 Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and pioneer in development of opera (L'Orfeo, espro della Beata Vergine), baptized in Cremona, Italy (d. 1643)
  • 1754 Pierre Dutillieu, French-Italian opera composer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1798)
  • 1759 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian blind pianist, singer, organist, and composer, born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1824)
  • 1764 Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, German organist, composer, and teacher of Carl Maria von Weber, born in Freising, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1827)
  • 1795 Adolf Bernhard Marx [Samuel Moses Marx], German music theorist and pedagogue, born in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1866)
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Weddings in Music

  • 1948 American dancer and actress Cyd Charisse (26) weds American pop singer Tony Martin (34)
  • 2015 Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell (42) weds F1 racing team boss Christian Horner (41) in Bedfordshire, England
  • 2021 American pop singer Ariana Grande (28) weds American realtor Dalton Gomez (25) at home in Montecito, California; divorce in 2023
  • 2022 Kourtney Kardashian and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker marry in Santa Barbara, for real, shortly after they married in Las Vegas illegally without a licence