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.
- 1563Bartolomé de Escobedo died — Spanish composer and educator. source 463 years ago
- 1748Joseph Schuster was born — German composer. source 278 years ago
- 1868Halfdan Kjerulf died — Norwegian pianist and composer. source 158 years ago
- 1909Yūji Koseki was born — Japanese composer. source 117 years ago
- 1966Juan María Solare was born — Argentinian pianist and composer. source 60 years ago
- 1967Petter Wettre was born — Norwegian saxophonist and composer. source 59 years ago
- 1974Vicente Emilio Sojo died — Venezuelan conductor and composer. source 52 years ago
- 1996Rafael Kubelík died — Czech conductor and composer. source 30 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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