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.
- 1586Claudio Saracini was born — Italian lute player and composer. source 440 years ago
- 1592Marc'Antonio Ingegneri died — Italian composer and educator. source 434 years ago
- 1663Franz Xaver Murschhauser was born — German composer and theorist. source 363 years ago
- 1771Ferdinando Paer was born — Italian composer and conductor. source 255 years ago
- 1784Wilhelm Friedemann Bach died — German composer. source 242 years ago
- 1892László Lajtha was born — Hungarian composer and conductor. source 134 years ago
- 1899Thomas A. Dorsey was born — American pianist and composer. source 127 years ago
- 1925Erik Satie died. 101 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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