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.
- 1570Salamone Rossi was born — Italian violinist and composer (probable;. source 456 years ago
- 1881George Enescu was born — Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor. source 145 years ago
- 1900Jean-Baptiste Accolay died — Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor. source 126 years ago
- 1914Fumio Hayasaka was born — Japanese composer. source 112 years ago
- 1918Jimmy Rowles was born — American singer-songwriter and pianist. source 108 years ago
- 1924William Marshall was born — American actor, director, and opera singer. source 102 years ago
- 1937William Motzing was born — American composer and conductor. source 89 years ago
- 1995Pierre Schaeffer died — French composer and musicologist. source 31 years ago
No entries for this date yet — the calendar fills in as the library grows. Try another day.
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
Ad space — 970×250 · paste your AdSense unit here