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.
- 1601Costanzo Porta died — Italian composer. source 425 years ago
- 1616Johann Jakob Froberger was born — German organist and composer. source 410 years ago
- 1786John Stanley died — English organist and composer. source 240 years ago
- 1924Sandy Wilson was born — English composer and songwriter. source 102 years ago
- 1929Helmut Braunlich was born — German-American violinist and composer. source 97 years ago
- 1954Charles Ives died — American composer and educator. source 72 years ago
- 1989Yiannis Papaioannou died — Greek composer and educator. source 37 years ago
- 2009Nicholas Maw died — English composer and academic. source 17 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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