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.
- 1620Isabella Leonarda was born — Italian composer and educator. source 406 years ago
- 1633Sebastian Knüpfer was born — German cantor and composer. source 393 years ago
- 1781Vincent Novello was born — English composer and publisher. source 245 years ago
- 1855Ferdinand Hummel was born — German pianist, composer, and conductor. source 171 years ago
- 1869Walford Davies was born. 157 years ago
- 1889Louis Silvers was born — American composer. source 137 years ago
- 1899Billy Rose was born — American composer and manager. source 127 years ago
- 1912Wayne Barlow was born — American organist, composer, and director. source 114 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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