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.
- 1513Domenico Ferrabosco was born — Italian composer. source 513 years ago
- 1602Francesco Cavalli was born — Italian composer. source 424 years ago
- 1679Georg Friedrich Kauffmann was born — German organist and composer. source 347 years ago
- 1808Michael Costa was born — Italian-English conductor and composer. source 218 years ago
- 1937Erkki Melartin died — Finnish composer. source 89 years ago
- 1986Edmund Rubbra died — English composer and conductor. source 40 years ago
- 1987Dmitry Kabalevsky died — Russian pianist and composer. source 39 years ago
- 1988Frederick Loewe died — German-American composer. source 38 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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