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.

January 24

  • 1473Conrad Paumann died — German organist and composer. source 553 years ago
  • 1666Johann Andreas Herbst died — German composer and theorist. source 360 years ago
  • 1776E. T. A. Hoffmann was born — German jurist, author, and composer. source 250 years ago
  • 1883Friedrich von Flotow died — German composer. source 143 years ago
  • 1906Wilfred Jackson was born — American animator and composer. source 120 years ago
  • 1907Jean Daetwyler was born — Swiss composer and musician. source 119 years ago
  • 1913Norman Dello Joio was born — American organist and composer. source 113 years ago
  • 1915Vítězslava Kaprálová was born — Czech composer and conductor. source 111 years ago

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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