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.
- 1811Giulia Grisi was born — Italian soprano. source 215 years ago
- 1813Richard Wagner was born. 213 years ago
- 1879Jean Cras was born — French admiral and composer. source 147 years ago
- 1900Juan Arvizu was born — Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist. source 126 years ago
- 1914Sun Ra was born — American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet. source 112 years ago
- 1924Charles Aznavour was born — French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor. source 102 years ago
- 1993Mieczysław Horszowski died — Polish-American pianist and composer. source 33 years ago
- 2011Joseph Brooks died — American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. source 15 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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