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.
- 1709Charles Collé was born — French playwright and songwriter. source 317 years ago
- 1759G. F. Handel died. 267 years ago
- 1843Joseph Lanner died — Austrian violinist and composer. source 183 years ago
- 1913Jean Fournet was born — French conductor. source 113 years ago
- 1924Shorty Rogers was born — American trumpet player and composer. source 102 years ago
- 1957Mikhail Pletnev was born — Russian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 69 years ago
- 1960Osamu Sato was born — Japanese graphic artist, programmer, and composer. source 66 years ago
- 1975Avner Dorman was born — Israeli-American composer and academic. source 51 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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