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.
- 1824Carl Reinecke was born — German pianist, composer, and conductor. source 202 years ago
- 1916Al G. Wright was born — American bandleader and conductor. source 110 years ago
- 1926Magda Herzberger was born — Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust. source 100 years ago
- 1956Reinhold Glière died — Russian composer and educator. source 70 years ago
- 1960Donald Harrison was born — American saxophonist, composer, and producer. source 66 years ago
- 1960Tatsuya Uemura was born — Japanese composer and programmer. source 66 years ago
- 1976Joe Becker was born — American guitarist and composer. source 50 years ago
- 2011Fred Steiner died — American composer and conductor. source 15 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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