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.
- 1525Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born. 501 years ago
- 1736Johann Georg Albrechtsberger was born — Austrian composer and theorist. source 290 years ago
- 1809Felix Mendelssohn was born. 217 years ago
- 1817Émile Prudent was born — French pianist and composer. source 209 years ago
- 1838Amelia Lehmann was born. 188 years ago
- 1842Sidney Lanier was born — American composer and poet. source 184 years ago
- 1911Jehan Alain was born — French organist and composer. source 115 years ago
- 1968Marwan Khoury was born — Lebanese singer, songwriter, and composer. source 58 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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