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.
- 1689Pietro Gnocchi was born — Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer. source 337 years ago
- 1848Hubert Parry was born. 178 years ago
- 1867Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was born — Swedish composer and critic. source 159 years ago
- 1877Adela Verne was born — English pianist and composer. source 149 years ago
- 1887Alexander Borodin died — Russian composer and chemist. source 139 years ago
- 1910Genrikh Kasparyan was born — Armenian chess player and composer. source 116 years ago
- 1923Dexter Gordon was born — American saxophonist, composer, and actor. source 103 years ago
- 1925Pia Sebastiani was born — Argentine pianist and composer. source 101 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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