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.
- 1892Léo-Pol Morin was born — Canadian pianist, composer, and educator. source 134 years ago
- 1921Ernest Gold was born — Austrian-American composer and conductor. source 105 years ago
- 1932Per Nørgård was born — Danish composer and music theorist. source 94 years ago
- 1936Albert Ayler was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 90 years ago
- 1951Arnold Schoenberg died — Austrian-American composer and painter. source 75 years ago
- 1993Yebin was born — South Korean singer-songwriter and composer. source 33 years ago
- 2010Manohari Singh died — Indian saxophonist and composer. source 16 years ago
- 2014Lorin Maazel died — French-American violinist, composer, and conductor. source 12 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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