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.
- 1464Robert Fayrfax was born — English Renaissance composer. source 562 years ago
- 1715Johann Friedrich Doles was born — German composer and conductor. source 311 years ago
- 1857Ruggero Leoncavallo was born — Italian composer. source 169 years ago
- 1858Pauline Duchambge died. 168 years ago
- 1882Albert Coates was born — English composer and conductor. source 144 years ago
- 1934George Canseco was born — Filipino composer and producer. source 92 years ago
- 1958Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson was born — Icelandic composer and producer. source 68 years ago
- 1986Harold Arlen died — American composer. source 40 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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