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.
- 1627Jacques Mauduit died — French composer and academic. source 399 years ago
- 1829Otto Goldschmidt was born — German composer, conductor and pianist. source 197 years ago
- 1903Kostas Giannidis was born — Greek pianist, composer, and conductor. source 123 years ago
- 1904Count Basie was born — American pianist, composer, and bandleader. source 122 years ago
- 1928Art Farmer was born — American trumpet player and composer. source 98 years ago
- 1934Paul Panhuysen was born — Dutch composer. source 92 years ago
- 1945Basil Poledouris was born — Greek-American composer, conductor. source 81 years ago
- 1951Constant Lambert died — English composer and conductor. source 75 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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