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.
- 1749Johann Nikolaus Forkel was born — German musicologist and theorist. source 277 years ago
- 1817Niels Gade was born. 209 years ago
- 1903Hugo Wolf died. 123 years ago
- 1922Joe Wilder was born — American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader. source 104 years ago
- 1922Zenaida Manfugás was born — Cuban pianist. source 104 years ago
- 1961Nick LaRocca died — American trumpet player and composer. source 65 years ago
- 1985Efrem Zimbalist died — Russian violinist, composer, and conductor. source 41 years ago
- 2014Trebor Jay Tichenor died — American pianist and composer. source 12 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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