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.
- 1596Constantijn Huygens was born — Dutch poet and composer. source 430 years ago
- 1681Carl Heinrich Biber was born — Austrian violinist and composer. source 345 years ago
- 1824Anton Bruckner was born — Austrian organist and composer. source 202 years ago
- 1862Franjo Krežma was born — Croatian violinist and composer. source 164 years ago
- 1892Darius Milhaud was born — French composer and educator. source 134 years ago
- 1907Edvard Grieg died. 119 years ago
- 1918Gerald Wilson was born — American trumpet player and composer. source 108 years ago
- 1937Gene Ludwig was born — American organist and composer. source 89 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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