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.
- 1527Hermann Finck was born — German composer and educator. source 499 years ago
- 1624François Roberday was born. 402 years ago
- 1685Johann Sebastian Bach was born — German Baroque composer and musician. source 341 years ago
- 1716Josef Seger was born — Bohemian organist, composer, and educator. source 310 years ago
- 1801Andrea Luchesi died — Italian composer and educator. source 225 years ago
- 1839Modest Mussorgsky was born — Russian pianist and composer. source 187 years ago
- 1897Sim Gokkes was born — Dutch composer and conductor. source 129 years ago
- 1904Nikos Skalkottas was born — Greek violinist and composer. source 122 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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