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.
- 1716Felice Giardini was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 310 years ago
- 1722Pietro Nardini was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 304 years ago
- 1782Metastasio died — Italian-Austrian poet and composer. source 244 years ago
- 1788Carlo Antonio Campioni died — French-Italian composer. source 238 years ago
- 1801Joseph Lanner was born — Austrian composer and conductor. source 225 years ago
- 1814Charles Burney died — English composer and historian. source 212 years ago
- 1872Nikolaos Mantzaros died — Greek composer and theorist. source 154 years ago
- 1916Russell Garcia was born — American-New Zealand composer and conductor. 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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