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.
- 1533Claudio Merulo was born. 493 years ago
- 1692Giuseppe Tartini was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 334 years ago
- 1848Gaetano Donizetti died — Italian composer. source 178 years ago
- 1870Charles Auguste de Bériot died — Belgian violinist and composer. source 156 years ago
- 1885Dimitrios Levidis was born — Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator. source 141 years ago
- 1896Yip Harburg was born — American composer. source 130 years ago
- 1920Charles Griffes died — American pianist and composer. source 106 years ago
- 1921Jan Novák was born — Czech composer. source 105 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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