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.
- 1557Alfonso Fontanelli was born — Italian composer. source 469 years ago
- 1621Michael Praetorius died. 405 years ago
- 1760Jean-François Le Sueur was born — French composer and educator. source 266 years ago
- 1847Robert Fuchs was born — Austrian composer and educator. source 179 years ago
- 1857Mikhail Glinka died — Russian composer. source 169 years ago
- 1867“The Blue Danube” was first performed in Vienna. 159 years ago
- 1885Leopold Damrosch died — German-American composer and conductor. source 141 years ago
- 1899Georges Auric was born — French composer. source 127 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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