Music history, daily
On This Day in Music
Composers born, composers lost, and pieces that met the world for the first time — and every name here is playable in the library.
- 1628Christoph Bernhard was born — German composer and theorist. source 398 years ago
- 1714Giovanni Battista Mancini was born — Italian soprano and author. source 312 years ago
- 1780Johann Ludwig Krebs died. 246 years ago
- 1782Johann Christian Bach died — German composer. source 244 years ago
- 1892Artur Rodziński was born — Polish-American conductor. source 134 years ago
- 1900Xavier Cugat was born — Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor. source 126 years ago
- 1923Milt Jackson was born — American jazz vibraphonist and composer. source 103 years ago
- 1977Roland Hayes died — American lyric tenor and composer. source 49 years ago
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Every entry is drawn from our source-cited composer biographies and piece notes — dates come from published references, not from memory. Browse any composer to read the full biography, or the library to play their music.
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