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.
- 1591Vincenzo Galilei died — Italian lute player and composer. source 435 years ago
- 1714Christoph Willibald Gluck was born. 312 years ago
- 1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau died — Swiss philosopher and composer. source 248 years ago
- 1819Charles-Louis Hanon was born — French pianist and composer. source 207 years ago
- 1914Frederick Fennell was born — American conductor and educator. source 112 years ago
- 1943Larry Lake was born — American-Canadian trumpet player and composer. source 83 years ago
- 2002Ray Brown died — American jazz musician and composer. source 24 years ago
- 2005Norm Prescott died — American actor, composer, and producer, co-founded Filmation Studios. source 21 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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