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.
- 1932Don Francks was born — Canadian actor, singer, and jazz musician. source 94 years ago
- 1935Chiquinha Gonzaga died. 91 years ago
- 1942Brian Jones was born — English guitarist, songwriter, and producer. source 84 years ago
- 1943Barbara Acklin was born — American singer-songwriter. source 83 years ago
- 1952William Finn was born — American composer and lyricist. source 74 years ago
- 1971Junya Nakano was born — Japanese pianist and composer. source 55 years ago
- 2002Helmut Zacharias died — German violinist and composer. source 24 years ago
- 2019André Previn died — German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.. source 7 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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