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 30

  • 1751Maria Anna Mozart was born — Austrian pianist. source 275 years ago
  • 1899Gerald Moore was born — English pianist. source 127 years ago
  • 1921Grant Johannesen was born — American pianist and educator. source 105 years ago
  • 1936Buddy Guy was born — American singer-songwriter and guitarist. source 90 years ago
  • 1945David Sanborn was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 81 years ago
  • 1948Julia Tsenova was born — Bulgarian pianist and composer. source 78 years ago
  • 1970George Szell died — Hungarian-American conductor and composer. source 56 years ago
  • 2006Anthony Galla-Rini died — American accordion player and composer. source 20 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.

Advertisement