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.
- 1588Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder died — Italian-English composer. source 438 years ago
- 1612Giovanni Gabrieli died — Italian organist and composer. source 414 years ago
- 1626Giovanni Legrenzi was born — Italian composer. source 400 years ago
- 1644Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was born — Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer. source 382 years ago
- 1696Maurice Greene was born — English organist and composer. source 330 years ago
- 1838Joseph Barnby was born. 188 years ago
- 1885Juhan Simm was born — Estonian composer and conductor. source 141 years ago
- 1928Leoš Janáček died — Czech composer and educator. source 98 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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