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.
- 1680Emanuele d'Astorga was born — Italian composer. source 346 years ago
- 1812Jan Ladislav Dussek died. 214 years ago
- 1846Jane Mary Guest died. 180 years ago
- 1874Hans Christian Lumbye died — Danish composer and conductor. source 152 years ago
- 1915Sviatoslav Richter was born — Ukrainian pianist and composer. source 111 years ago
- 1918Marian McPartland was born — English-American pianist and composer. source 108 years ago
- 1918Bernd Alois Zimmermann was born — German composer. source 108 years ago
- 1927John Joubert was born — South African-English composer and academic. source 99 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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