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.
- 1674Giacomo Carissimi died — Italian priest and composer. source 352 years ago
- 1711Gaetano Latilla was born — Italian composer. source 315 years ago
- 1715Jacques Duphly was born — French organist and composer. source 311 years ago
- 1735John Eccles died — English composer. source 291 years ago
- 1765Johann Melchior Molter died — German violinist and composer. source 261 years ago
- 1837Adolf Jensen was born. 189 years ago
- 1876Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was born — Italian composer and educator. source 150 years ago
- 1917Walter Hendl was born — American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 109 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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