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.
- 1517Gioseffo Zarlino was born — Italian composer. source 509 years ago
- 1687Jean-Baptiste Lully died. 339 years ago
- 1842Mykola Lysenko was born — Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 184 years ago
- 1902Madeleine Milhaud was born — French actress and composer. source 124 years ago
- 1929P. Ramlee was born — Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. source 97 years ago
- 1936Erol Büyükburç was born — Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor. source 90 years ago
- 1937Angelo Badalamenti was born — American pianist and composer. source 89 years ago
- 1937Jon Hassell was born — American trumpet player and composer. source 89 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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