May 4th

On this day - May 4th 1959 - The first Annual Grammy Award 

The Grammy awards is a music award ceremony held in the US. The first of the annual Grammy award was held in 1959 in two separate ceremonies held at the same time. One was hosted in New York while the other was held in Beverly Hills, California. Record, album and song of the year went to Domenico Modugno. Best Country song went to The Kingston Trio for the still well-known song "Tom Dooley".Best Jazz performance went to Ella Fitzgerald (individual) and Count Basie (Group). Best Album cover went to Frank Sinatra! The Grammy awards was not televised before the second award show in November the same year.

April 27th

On this day - April 27th 1810 - Beethoven composed "Für Elise" 

The Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for solo piano is one of Beethovens most famous and popular compositions. It score was published 40 years after Beethovens death, but the original script was dated April 27th 1810. The original is today lost, which have led to several debates about exactly how the original script went. It is also not known who "Elise" was, but one theory was that the original title was "Fur Therese" and that the song was written for Therese Malfatti, a friend of Beethoven. Another theory is that is was written for Elisabeth Röckel, a soprano singer Beethoven knew. You can download the song here if you want to listen to it: Fur Elise.