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.
- 1515Caspar Othmayr was born — German Lutheran pastor and composer. source 511 years ago
- 1607Paul Gerhardt was born — German poet and composer. source 419 years ago
- 1710Thomas Arne was born — English composer. source 316 years ago
- 1832Friedrich Kuhlau died. 194 years ago
- 1837Alexandre Guilmant was born — French organist and composer. source 189 years ago
- 1864Alice Tegnér was born. 162 years ago
- 1874Edmund Eysler was born — Austrian composer. source 152 years ago
- 1955Charlie Parker died — American saxophonist and composer. source 71 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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