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.
- 1492Francesco de Layolle was born — Italian organist and composer. source 534 years ago
- 1678Antonio Vivaldi was born. 348 years ago
- 1745Charles Dibdin was born — English actor, playwright, and composer. source 281 years ago
- 1815Mykhailo Verbytsky was born — Ukrainian composer of religious hymns and the national anthem of Ukraine. source 211 years ago
- 1838Paul Lacôme was born — French pianist, cellist, and composer. source 188 years ago
- 1877Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre. 149 years ago
- 1877Alexander Goedicke was born — Russian pianist and composer. source 149 years ago
- 1925Moritz Moszkowski died. 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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