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.
- 1809Joseph Haydn died. 217 years ago
- 1901Alfredo Antonini was born — Italian-American conductor and composer. source 125 years ago
- 1914Akira Ifukube was born — Japanese composer and educator. source 112 years ago
- 1932Ed Lincoln was born — Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer. source 94 years ago
- 1956Fritz Hilpert was born — German drummer and composer. source 70 years ago
- 1967Billy Strayhorn died — American pianist and composer. source 59 years ago
- 1971Arun Luthra was born — Indo-Anglo-American saxophonist, konnakol artist, composer, and arranger. source 55 years ago
- 1994Uzay Heparı died — Turkish actor, producer, and composer. source 32 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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