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.
- 1626Joan Pau Pujol died — Catalan organist and composer. source 400 years ago
- 1643Giovanni Picchi died — Italian organist and composer. source 383 years ago
- 1732Francesco Pasquale Ricci was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 294 years ago
- 1797Michel-Jean Sedaine died — French playwright and composer. source 229 years ago
- 1866Erik Satie was born. 160 years ago
- 1901Werner Egk was born — German pianist and composer. source 125 years ago
- 1921Bob Merrill was born — American composer and screenwriter. source 105 years ago
- 1935Paul Dukas died — French composer, critic, and educator. source 91 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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