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.
- 1640Amalia Catharina was born — German poet and composer. source 386 years ago
- 1693Laurent Belissen was born — French composer. source 333 years ago
- 1759Carl Heinrich Graun died — German tenor and composer. source 267 years ago
- 1857Cécile Chaminade was born. 169 years ago
- 1891Adolf Busch was born — German violinist and composer. source 135 years ago
- 1905André Jolivet was born — French composer. source 121 years ago
- 1907Benny Carter was born — American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer. source 119 years ago
- 1938Jacques Hétu was born — Canadian composer and educator. source 88 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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