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.

March 23

  • 1599Thomas Selle was born — German composer. source 427 years ago
  • 1675Anthoni van Noordt died — Dutch organist and composer. source 351 years ago
  • 1748Johann Gottfried Walther died — German organist and composer. source 278 years ago
  • 1750Johannes Matthias Sperger was born — Austrian bassist and composer. source 276 years ago
  • 1826Ludwig Minkus was born — Austrian violinist and composer. source 200 years ago
  • 1834Julius Reubke was born — German pianist and composer. source 192 years ago
  • 1842Friedrich Amelung was born — Estonian-German historian, businessman and composer. source 184 years ago
  • 1844Eugène Gigout was born. 182 years ago

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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