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.
- 1550Jacobus Gallus was born — Slovenian composer. source 476 years ago
- 1809Joseph Quesnel died — French-Canadian composer and playwright. source 217 years ago
- 1846Achilles Alferaki was born — Russian composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog. source 180 years ago
- 1854Leoš Janáček was born — Czech composer and theorist. source 172 years ago
- 1901Ruth Crawford Seeger was born — American composer. source 125 years ago
- 1957Richard Mohaupt died — German composer and Kapellmeister. source 69 years ago
- 1979Louis Durey died — French pianist and composer. source 47 years ago
- 2008Oliver Schroer died — Canadian fiddler, composer, and producer. source 18 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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