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.

April 9

  • 1598Johann Crüger was born — Sorbian-German composer and theorist. source 428 years ago
  • 1627Johann Caspar Kerll was born — German organist and composer. source 399 years ago
  • 1717Georg Matthias Monn was born — Austrian organist, composer, and educator. source 309 years ago
  • 1794Theobald Boehm was born — German flute player and composer. source 232 years ago
  • 1846Paolo Tosti was born — Italian-English composer and educator. source 180 years ago
  • 1906Antal Doráti was born — Hungarian-American conductor and composer. source 120 years ago
  • 1908Paula Nenette Pepin was born — French composer, pianist and lyricist. source 118 years ago
  • 1935Aulis Sallinen was born — Finnish composer and academic. source 91 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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