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.
- 1804Johann Strauss I was born — Austrian composer and conductor. source 222 years ago
- 1815Josephine Lang was born. 211 years ago
- 1906Ulvi Cemal Erkin was born — Turkish composer and educator. source 120 years ago
- 1912Les Brown was born — American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. source 114 years ago
- 1915Alexander Brott was born — Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor. source 111 years ago
- 1922Les Baxter was born — American pianist and composer. source 104 years ago
- 1926François Morel was born — Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator. source 100 years ago
- 1944Boris Brott was born — Canadian composer and conductor. source 82 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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