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.
- 1920Charlie Parker was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 106 years ago
- 1943Dick Halligan was born — American pianist and composer. source 83 years ago
- 1944Attik died — Greek pianist and composer. source 82 years ago
- 1957Grzegorz Ciechowski was born — Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer. source 69 years ago
- 1962Hiroki Kikuta was born — Japanese game designer and composer. source 64 years ago
- 1974Kumi Tanioka was born — Japanese keyboard player and composer. source 52 years ago
- 1982Lehman Engel died — American composer and conductor. source 44 years ago
- 2014Octavio Brunetti died — Argentine pianist and composer. source 12 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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