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.
- 1620Thomas Campion died — English poet and composer. source 406 years ago
- 1643Girolamo Frescobaldi died — Italian keyboardist and composer. source 383 years ago
- 1810Frédéric Chopin was born. 216 years ago
- 1882Theodor Kullak died — German pianist, composer, and educator. source 144 years ago
- 1889William Henry Monk died — English organist and composer. source 137 years ago
- 1896Dimitri Mitropoulos was born — Greek pianist, composer, and conductor. source 130 years ago
- 1904Glenn Miller was born — American trombonist, composer, and bandleader. source 122 years ago
- 1909Winston Sharples was born — American pianist and composer. source 117 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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