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.

February 11

  • 1708Egidio Duni was born — Italian composer. source 318 years ago
  • 1781Anthony Philip Heinrich was born. 245 years ago
  • 1795Carl Michael Bellman died — Swedish poet and composer. source 231 years ago
  • 1810Loïsa Puget was born. 216 years ago
  • 1829Alexander Griboyedov died — Russian poet, playwright, and composer. source 197 years ago
  • 1830Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff was born — Prussian pianist and composer. source 196 years ago
  • 1912Rudolf Firkušný was born — Czech-American pianist and educator. source 114 years ago
  • 1941Sérgio Mendes was born — Brazilian pianist and composer. source 85 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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