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.
- 1692Geminiano Giacomelli was born — Italian composer. source 334 years ago
- 1779Thomas Moore was born — Irish poet and composer. source 247 years ago
- 1787Leopold Mozart died — Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor. source 239 years ago
- 1805Luigi Boccherini died — Italian cellist and composer. source 221 years ago
- 1836Friedrich Baumfelder was born — German pianist, composer, and conductor. source 190 years ago
- 1923György Ligeti was born — Hungarian-Austrian composer and educator. source 103 years ago
- 1952Roger Briggs was born — American pianist, composer, conductor, and educator. source 74 years ago
- 1954Youri Egorov was born — Russian pianist and composer. source 72 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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