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.
- 1785Karol Kurpiński was born — Polish composer and conductor. source 241 years ago
- 1829Heinrich Lichner was born. 197 years ago
- 1870Oscar Straus was born — Viennese composer and conductor. source 156 years ago
- 1905Makar Yekmalyan died — Armenian composer. source 121 years ago
- 1930Lorin Maazel was born — French-American violinist, composer, and conductor. source 96 years ago
- 1932John Philip Sousa died. 94 years ago
- 1948Stephen Schwartz was born — American composer and producer. source 78 years ago
- 1967Zoltán Kodály died — Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher. source 59 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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