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.
- 1697Jean-Marie Leclair was born — French violinist and composer. source 329 years ago
- 1760Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was born — French captain, engineer, and composer. source 266 years ago
- 1888Max Steiner was born — Austrian-American composer and conductor. source 138 years ago
- 1894Dimitri Tiomkin was born — Ukrainian-American composer and conductor. source 132 years ago
- 1904Frieda Belinfante was born — Dutch musician and LGBT member of the Dutch resistance. source 122 years ago
- 1920Bert Weedon was born — English guitarist. source 106 years ago
- 1935Larry Williams was born — American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer. source 91 years ago
- 1940Arthur Alexander was born — American country-soul singer-songwriter. source 86 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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