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.
- 1749Georg Joseph Vogler was born — German organist, composer, and theorist. source 277 years ago
- 1763Franz Danzi was born — German cellist, composer, and conductor. source 263 years ago
- 1772Louis-Claude Daquin died — French organist and composer. source 254 years ago
- 1843Edvard Grieg was born. 183 years ago
- 1881Franjo Krežma died — Croatian violinist and composer. source 145 years ago
- 1894Robert Russell Bennett was born — American composer and conductor. source 132 years ago
- 1900Otto Luening was born — German-American composer and conductor. source 126 years ago
- 1910David Rose was born — English-American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 116 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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