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.
- 1560Hieronymus Praetorius was born — German organist and composer. source 466 years ago
- 1740Samuel Arnold was born — English organist and composer. source 286 years ago
- 1787Mozart completed Eine kleine Nachtmusik in Vienna. 239 years ago
- 1797Guillaume Louis Cottrau was born. 229 years ago
- 1806Michael Haydn died — Austrian composer and educator. source 220 years ago
- 1845Abai Qunanbaiuli was born — Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher. source 181 years ago
- 1865Alexander Glazunov was born — Russian composer, conductor, and educator. source 161 years ago
- 1922Al Alberts was born — American pop singer and composer. source 104 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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