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.
- 1445Leonel Power died — English composer. source 581 years ago
- 1625Orlando Gibbons died — English organist and composer. source 401 years ago
- 1722Johann Kuhnau died — German organist and composer. source 304 years ago
- 1816Giovanni Paisiello died — Italian composer and educator. source 210 years ago
- 1826Carl Maria von Weber died — German pianist, composer, and conductor. source 200 years ago
- 1863Arthur Somervell was born. 163 years ago
- 1884Ralph Benatzky was born — Czech-Swiss composer. source 142 years ago
- 1923Daniel Pinkham was born — American organist and composer. source 103 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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