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.
- 1754Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari died. 272 years ago
- 1879Poldowski was born. 147 years ago
- 1930Friedrich Gulda was born — Austrian pianist and composer. source 96 years ago
- 1944Billy Cobham was born — Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader. source 82 years ago
- 1953Django Reinhardt died — Belgian guitarist and composer. source 73 years ago
- 1975Tony Kakko was born — Finnish musician, composer, and vocalist. source 51 years ago
- 1981Ernie Freeman died — American pianist, composer, and bandleader. source 45 years ago
- 2010Hank Jones died — American pianist, composer, and bandleader. source 16 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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