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.

March 13

  • 1700Michel Blavet was born — French flute player and composer. source 326 years ago
  • 1860Hugo Wolf was born. 166 years ago
  • 1883Enrico Toselli was born — Italian pianist and composer. source 143 years ago
  • 1899Pancho Vladigerov was born — Bulgarian pianist and composer. source 127 years ago
  • 1911José Ardévol was born — Cuban composer and conductor. source 115 years ago
  • 1925Roy Haynes was born — American drummer and composer. source 101 years ago
  • 1952Wolfgang Rihm was born — German composer and educator. source 74 years ago
  • 1957Moses Hogan was born — American composer and conductor. source 69 years ago

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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