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.
- 1785Baldassare Galuppi died — Italian composer. source 241 years ago
- 1884Raoul Koczalski was born — Polish pianist and composer. source 142 years ago
- 1919Herbie Nichols was born — American pianist and composer. source 107 years ago
- 1926George Martin was born — English composer, conductor, and producer. source 100 years ago
- 1929Ernst Mahle was born — German-Brazilian composer and conductor. source 97 years ago
- 1943Van Dyke Parks was born — American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, author, and actor. source 83 years ago
- 1956Alexander Gretchaninov died — Russian-American pianist and composer. source 70 years ago
- 2010Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt died — Chilean-German composer and academic. source 16 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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