On This Day in Music
Events in Music
- 1886 Modest Mussorgsky's musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres in St. Petersburg's Kononov Hall, Russia
- 1905 Claude Debussy's "La Mer" premieres
- 1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
- 1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI at Vincennes near Paris
- 1925 Willem Landre's opera "Beatrice" premieres in The Hague
- 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
- 1969 3rd Country Music Association Award: Johnny Cash & Tammy Wynette wins
- 1973 7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins
Birthdays in Music
- 1761 Peter Grønland, Danish composer, born in Wilster, Germany (d. 1825)
- 1762 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, born in Boxford, Massachusetts (d. 1820)
- 1775 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Swedish-Finnish composer, born in Uusikaupunki, Finland (d. 1838)
- 1784 Thomas Hastings, American composer, born in Washington, Connecticut (d. 1872)
Deaths in Music
Mata HariWeddings in Music
- 1963 Folk singer Mary Travers (26) weds photographer Barry Feinstein
- 2016 Former "Glee" actress Dianna Agron (30) weds Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall (27) in Morocco