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.
- 1556Sethus Calvisius was born — German astronomer, composer, and theorist. source 470 years ago
- 1791Carl Czerny was born — Austrian pianist and composer. source 235 years ago
- 1836Léo Delibes was born — French pianist and composer. source 190 years ago
- 1844Charles-Marie Widor was born — French organist and composer. source 182 years ago
- 1881Kenneth J. Alford was born — English soldier, bandmaster, and composer. source 145 years ago
- 1907W. H. Auden was born — English-American poet, playwright, and composer. source 119 years ago
- 1917Tadd Dameron was born — American pianist and composer. source 109 years ago
- 1947Fannie Charles Dillon died — American composer. source 79 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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