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.
- 1626John Dowland died — English lute player and composer. source 400 years ago
- 1705Nicolas Chédeville was born — French musette player and composer. source 321 years ago
- 1802Charles Auguste de Bériot was born — Belgian violinist and composer. source 224 years ago
- 1887Evelyn Faltis was born. 139 years ago
- 1944Lew Soloff was born — American trumpet player, composer, and actor. source 82 years ago
- 1961Percy Grainger died — Australian-American pianist and composer. source 65 years ago
- 1963Jacob Gade died — Danish violinist and composer. source 63 years ago
- 1996Toru Takemitsu died — Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer. source 30 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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