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.
- 1568Adriano Banchieri was born. 458 years ago
- 1695Pietro Antonio Locatelli was born — Italian violin player and composer. source 331 years ago
- 1840Jacob Christian Fabricius was born — Danish composer. source 186 years ago
- 1914Albéric Magnard died — French composer and educator. source 112 years ago
- 1915Knut Nystedt was born — Norwegian organist and composer. source 111 years ago
- 1926Uttam Kumar was born — Indian Bengali actor, director, producer, singer, composer and playback singer. source 100 years ago
- 1947Susan Milan was born — English flute player and composer. source 79 years ago
- 1974Harry Partch died — American composer and theorist. 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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