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.
- 1599Luca Marenzio died — Italian singer-songwriter. source 427 years ago
- 1847Alexander Mackenzie was born. 179 years ago
- 1862Claude Debussy was born. 164 years ago
- 1900Lisy Fischer was born — Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy. source 126 years ago
- 1917John Lee Hooker was born — American singer-songwriter and guitarist. source 109 years ago
- 1928Karlheinz Stockhausen was born — German composer and academic. source 98 years ago
- 1976Gina Bachauer died — Greek pianist and composer. source 50 years ago
- 2005Luc Ferrari died — French-Italian director and composer. source 21 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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