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.
- 1774Pierre Rode was born — French violinist and composer. source 252 years ago
- 1901Wayne King was born — American singer-songwriter and conductor. source 125 years ago
- 1914Jimmy Wakely was born — American country music singer-songwriter and actor. source 112 years ago
- 1916Bill Doggett was born — American pianist and composer. source 110 years ago
- 1919Georges Ulmer was born — Danish-French actor and composer. source 107 years ago
- 1938John Corigliano was born — American composer and academic. source 88 years ago
- 1957Josef Hofmann died — Polish-American pianist and composer. source 69 years ago
- 2003Rusty Magee died — American actor and composer. source 23 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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