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.
- 1629Hieronymus Praetorius died — German organist and composer. source 397 years ago
- 1756W. A. Mozart was born. 270 years ago
- 1806Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga was born — Spanish composer and educator. source 220 years ago
- 1823Édouard Lalo was born — French violinist and composer. source 203 years ago
- 1869Will Marion Cook was born — American violinist and composer. source 157 years ago
- 1885Jerome Kern was born — American composer and songwriter. source 141 years ago
- 1895Harry Ruby was born — American composer and screenwriter. source 131 years ago
- 1901Giuseppe Verdi died. 125 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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