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.
- 1739Benedetto Marcello died — Italian composer and educator. source 287 years ago
- 1803Adolphe Adam was born — French composer and critic. source 223 years ago
- 1819Sophie Gail died. 207 years ago
- 1858Pasquale Mario Costa was born. 168 years ago
- 1880Ernest Bloch was born — Swiss-American composer and educator. source 146 years ago
- 1917Robert Farnon was born — Canadian trumpet player, composer, and conductor. source 109 years ago
- 1921Billy Taylor was born — American pianist and composer. source 105 years ago
- 1924Wilfred Josephs was born — English composer. source 102 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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