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.

August 25

  • 1742Carlos Seixas died — Portuguese organist and composer. source 284 years ago
  • 1758Franz Teyber was born — Austrian organist and composer. source 268 years ago
  • 1774Niccolò Jommelli died — Italian composer and educator. source 252 years ago
  • 1822William Herschel died — German-English astronomer and composer. source 204 years ago
  • 1829Carlo Acton was born — Italian pianist and composer. source 197 years ago
  • 1902Stefan Wolpe was born — German-American composer and educator. source 124 years ago
  • 1918Leonard Bernstein was born — American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 108 years ago
  • 1928Karl Korte was born — American composer and academic. source 98 years ago

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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