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.
- 1824Bedřich Smetana was born — Czech pianist and composer. source 202 years ago
- 1900Kurt Weill was born — German-American pianist and composer. source 126 years ago
- 1905Marc Blitzstein was born — American composer and songwriter. source 121 years ago
- 1912Henry Katzman was born — American pianist, composer, and painter. source 114 years ago
- 1938Clark Gesner was born — American author and composer. source 88 years ago
- 1938Ben Harney died — American pianist and composer. source 88 years ago
- 1944Leif Segerstam was born — Finnish conductor and composer. source 82 years ago
- 1945Derek Watkins was born — English trumpet player and composer. source 81 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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