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.
- 1653Samuel Scheidt died — German organist and composer. source 373 years ago
- 1681Georg Philipp Telemann was born. 345 years ago
- 1762Marcos Portugal was born — Portuguese organist and composer. source 264 years ago
- 1775Muthuswami Dikshitar was born — Indian poet and composer. source 251 years ago
- 1820Fanny Crosby was born — American poet and composer. source 206 years ago
- 1879Neyzen Tevfik was born — Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer. source 147 years ago
- 1885Dimitrie Cuclin was born — Romanian violinist and composer. source 141 years ago
- 1916Enrique Granados died — Spanish pianist and composer. source 110 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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