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.
- 1627Lodovico Grossi da Viadana died — Italian composer and educator. source 399 years ago
- 1660Alessandro Scarlatti was born — Italian composer. source 366 years ago
- 1707Jean-Baptiste Barrière was born — French cellist and composer. source 319 years ago
- 1752Ludwig August Lebrun was born — German oboe player and composer. source 274 years ago
- 1754Vicente Martín y Soler was born — Spanish composer. source 272 years ago
- 1810Hans Christian Lumbye was born — Danish composer and conductor. source 216 years ago
- 1864Giacomo Meyerbeer died — German composer and educator. source 162 years ago
- 1937Arthur Somervell died. 89 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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