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.
- 1528Francisco de Peñalosa died — Spanish composer. source 498 years ago
- 1580Alonso Mudarra died — Spanish guitarist and composer. source 446 years ago
- 1629Jean-Henri d'Anglebert was born — French organist and composer. source 397 years ago
- 1721Pieter Hellendaal was born — Dutch-English organist, violinist, and composer. source 305 years ago
- 1866Ferruccio Busoni was born — Italian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 160 years ago
- 1873Sergei Rachmaninoff was born. 153 years ago
- 1903Amelia Lehmann died. 123 years ago
- 1917Scott Joplin died. 109 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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