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.
- 1567Thomas Campion was born — English composer, poet, and physician. source 459 years ago
- 1728Agostino Steffani died — Italian priest and composer. source 298 years ago
- 1760Jan Ladislav Dussek was born. 266 years ago
- 1761Jan Ladislav Dussek was born — Czech pianist and composer. source 265 years ago
- 1794Alexander Petrov was born — Russian chess player and composer. source 232 years ago
- 1885James Scott was born — American composer. source 141 years ago
- 1894Hans von Bülow died — German pianist, composer, and conductor. source 132 years ago
- 1896Ambroise Thomas died — French composer and academic. source 130 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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