On This Day – 4 May

OTD in 1795 – the first performance of Haydn’s Symphony No.104 ‘London’

Happy Birthday to Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the fortepiano, born #OTD in 1655

#OTD in 1604, the death of the composer Claudio Merulo

#OTD in 1955, the death of the composer George Enescu