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.
- 1670Richard Leveridge was born — English singer-songwriter. source 356 years ago
- 1759Marianna Auenbrugger was born — Austrian pianist and composer. source 267 years ago
- 1868Florence Foster Jenkins was born — American soprano and educator. source 158 years ago
- 1920Robert Mann was born — American violinist, composer, and conductor. source 106 years ago
- 1932Buster Benton was born — American singer-songwriter and guitarist. source 94 years ago
- 1937George Hamilton IV was born — American singer-songwriter and guitarist. source 89 years ago
- 1937Karen Dalton was born — American country blues and folk singer, guitarist, and banjo player. source 89 years ago
- 2015Van Alexander died — American composer and conductor. source 11 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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