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.
- 1653Johann Pachelbel was born — German organist, composer, and educator. source 373 years ago
- 1726Johann Becker was born — German organist, composer, and educator. source 300 years ago
- 1854Engelbert Humperdinck was born — German playwright and composer. source 172 years ago
- 1886Othmar Schoeck was born — Swiss composer and conductor. source 140 years ago
- 1912Samuel Coleridge-Taylor died. 114 years ago
- 1925Art Pepper was born — American saxophonist, clarinet player and composer. source 101 years ago
- 1944Leonard Slatkin was born — American conductor and composer. source 82 years ago
- 1946Shalom Hanoch was born — Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer. source 80 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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