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.
- 1635Philippe Quinault was born — French playwright and composer. source 391 years ago
- 1736Ignaz Fränzl was born — German violinist and composer. source 290 years ago
- 1829Joseph Ascher was born. 197 years ago
- 1832Charles Lecocq was born — French pianist and composer. source 194 years ago
- 1858Julius Reubke died — German pianist and composer. source 168 years ago
- 1875Georges Bizet died. 151 years ago
- 1877Ludwig Ritter von Köchel died — Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher. source 149 years ago
- 1899Johann Strauss II died. 127 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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