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.

June 18

  • 1673Antonio de Literes was born — Spanish composer. source 353 years ago
  • 1677Antonio Maria Bononcini was born — Italian cellist and composer. source 349 years ago
  • 1717Johann Stamitz was born — Czech violinist and composer. source 309 years ago
  • 1726Michel Richard Delalande died — French organist and composer. source 300 years ago
  • 1757Ignaz Pleyel was born — Austrian-French pianist and composer. source 269 years ago
  • 1850Richard Heuberger was born — Austrian composer and critic. source 176 years ago
  • 1904Manuel Rosenthal was born — French conductor and composer. source 122 years ago
  • 1905Eduard Tubin was born — Estonian composer and conductor. source 121 years ago

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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