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.
- 1796Robert Burns died — Scottish poet and songwriter. source 230 years ago
- 1898Sara Carter was born — American singer-songwriter. source 128 years ago
- 1931Sonny Clark was born — American pianist and composer. source 95 years ago
- 1931Leon Schidlowsky was born — Chilean-Israeli painter and composer. source 95 years ago
- 1938Anton Kuerti was born — Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 88 years ago
- 1997Olaf Kopvillem died — Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer. source 29 years ago
- 2004Jerry Goldsmith died — American composer and conductor. source 22 years ago
- 2013Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom died — Colombian-French composer and educator. source 13 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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