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.
- 1510Antonio de Cabezón was born — Spanish composer and organist. source 516 years ago
- 1727Tommaso Traetta was born — Italian composer and educator. source 299 years ago
- 1750John Stafford Smith was born — English organist and composer. source 276 years ago
- 1764Pietro Locatelli died — Italian violinist and composer. source 262 years ago
- 1843Florence Ashton Marshall was born. 183 years ago
- 1853Arnoldo Sartorio was born — German composer, pianist, and teacher. source 173 years ago
- 1858Siegfried Alkan was born — German composer. source 168 years ago
- 1879Teodoro Cottrau died. 147 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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