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.
- 1596Giaches de Wert died — Flemish-Italian composer. source 430 years ago
- 1680Jean-Baptiste Stuck was born — Italian-French cellist and composer. source 346 years ago
- 1797Joseph Brackett was born — American religious leader and composer. source 229 years ago
- 1973Ernest MacMillan died — Canadian conductor and composer. source 53 years ago
- 1983Kai Winding died — Danish-American trombonist and composer. source 43 years ago
- 2002Murray Adaskin died — Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, and educator. source 24 years ago
- 2004Barney Kessel died — American guitarist and composer. source 22 years ago
- 2014Antony Hopkins died — English pianist, composer, and conductor. source 12 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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