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.
- 1733Georg Böhm died — German organist and composer. source 293 years ago
- 1854Bernard Zweers was born — Dutch composer and educator. source 172 years ago
- 1901Henri Sauguet was born — French composer. source 125 years ago
- 1902Meredith Willson was born — American playwright and composer. source 124 years ago
- 1909Isaac Albéniz died. 117 years ago
- 1910Pauline Viardot died. 116 years ago
- 1911Gustav Mahler died. 115 years ago
- 1922Kai Winding was born — Danish-American trombonist and composer. source 104 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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