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.

July 26

  • 1782John Field was born — Irish pianist and composer. source 244 years ago
  • 1791Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born — Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor. source 235 years ago
  • 1863Jāzeps Vītols was born — Latvian composer. source 163 years ago
  • 1865Rajanikanta Sen was born — Indian poet and composer. source 161 years ago
  • 1874Serge Koussevitzky was born — Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor. source 152 years ago
  • 1982Gilad Hochman was born — Israeli composer. source 44 years ago
  • 1995Laurindo Almeida died — Brazilian-American guitarist and composer. source 31 years ago
  • 2011Joe Arroyo died — Colombian singer-songwriter and composer. source 15 years ago

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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