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.
- 1639Melchior Franck died — German composer. source 387 years ago
- 1653Georg Muffat was born — French organist and composer. source 373 years ago
- 1804Mikhail Glinka was born — Russian composer. source 222 years ago
- 1921Nelson Riddle was born — American composer and bandleader. source 105 years ago
- 1928Steve Dodd was born — Australian actor and composer. source 98 years ago
- 1961Peter Machajdík was born — Slovak-German pianist and composer. source 65 years ago
- 2000Tito Puente died — American drummer, composer, and producer. source 26 years ago
- 2012Faruq Z. Bey died — American saxophonist and composer. source 14 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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