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.
- 1818Jean Henri Ravina was born. 208 years ago
- 1896Clara Schumann died. 130 years ago
- 1909Ernest Hogan died — American actor and composer. source 117 years ago
- 1931Louis Smith was born — American trumpeter. source 95 years ago
- 1940Shorty Long was born — American singer-songwriter and producer. source 86 years ago
- 1955Zbigniew Preisner was born — Polish composer and producer. source 71 years ago
- 2013Anders Eliasson died — Swedish composer. source 13 years ago
- 2015Bob Belden died — American saxophonist, composer, and producer. source 11 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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