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.
- 1739Agostino Accorimboni was born — Italian composer. source 287 years ago
- 1775Sophie Gail was born. 251 years ago
- 1867Umberto Giordano was born — Italian composer and academic. source 159 years ago
- 1890Ivor Gurney was born. 136 years ago
- 1928Vilayat Khan was born — Indian sitar player and composer. source 98 years ago
- 1951Keiichi Suzuki was born — Japanese singer-songwriter. source 75 years ago
- 1959Bohuslav Martinů died — Czech-American composer and educator. source 67 years ago
- 1974Takahito Eguchi was born — Japanese pianist and composer. source 52 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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