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.
- 1605Orazio Vecchi died — Italian composer. source 421 years ago
- 1743Luigi Boccherini was born — Italian cellist and composer. source 283 years ago
- 1841Elfrida Andrée was born — Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. source 185 years ago
- 1912Saul Chaplin was born — American composer. source 114 years ago
- 1926György Kurtág was born — Hungarian composer and academic. source 100 years ago
- 1927Robert Fuchs died — Austrian composer and educator. source 99 years ago
- 1958Steve Nieve was born — English keyboard player and composer. source 68 years ago
- 1972Lee Morgan died — American trumpet player and composer. source 54 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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