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.
- 1575Annibale Padovano died — Italian organist and composer. source 451 years ago
- 1677Christian Petzold was born. 349 years ago
- 1835Eduard Strauss was born — Austrian composer and conductor. source 191 years ago
- 1838Karl Davydov was born — Russian cellist, composer, and conductor. source 188 years ago
- 1842Luigi Cherubini died — Italian composer and theorist. source 184 years ago
- 1857Berta Bock was born — Romanian composer. source 169 years ago
- 1918Lili Boulanger died. 108 years ago
- 1926Ben Johnston was born — American composer and academic. source 100 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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