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.
- 1638Ignazio Donati died — Italian composer. source 388 years ago
- 1775Manuel Garcia was born — Spanish opera singer and composer. source 251 years ago
- 1848Henri Duparc was born — French soldier and composer. source 178 years ago
- 1851Albert Lortzing died — German actor and composer. source 175 years ago
- 1858Mel Bonis was born. 168 years ago
- 1891Calixa Lavallée died — Canadian-American lieutenant and composer. source 135 years ago
- 1899Alexander Tcherepnin was born — Russian-American pianist and composer. source 127 years ago
- 1909Todor Skalovski was born — Macedonian composer and conductor. source 117 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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