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.
- 1397Francesco Landini died — Italian composer. source 629 years ago
- 1661Georg Böhm was born — German organist and composer. source 365 years ago
- 1891Ferdinand Praeger died. 135 years ago
- 1917Laurindo Almeida was born — Brazilian-American guitarist and composer. source 109 years ago
- 1925Hugo Montenegro was born — American composer and conductor. source 101 years ago
- 1928Horace Silver was born — American pianist and composer. source 98 years ago
- 1953John Zorn was born — American saxophonist, composer, and producer. source 73 years ago
- 2012Emmanuel Nunes died — Portuguese-French composer and educator. source 14 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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