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.
- 1666Johann Heinrich Buttstett was born — German organist and composer. source 360 years ago
- 1723Giovanni Marco Rutini was born — Italian composer. source 303 years ago
- 1850Luise Adolpha Le Beau was born. 176 years ago
- 1906John Knowles Paine died — American composer and educator. source 120 years ago
- 1924Franco Mannino was born — Italian pianist, composer, director, and playwright. source 102 years ago
- 1945Huldreich Georg Früh died — Swiss composer. source 81 years ago
- 1952Ketil Bjørnstad was born — Norwegian pianist and composer. source 74 years ago
- 1990Dexter Gordon died — American saxophonist, composer, and actor. source 36 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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