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.
- 1726François-André Danican Philidor was born — French chess player and composer. source 300 years ago
- 1777Heinrich Stölzel was born — German horn player and composer. source 249 years ago
- 1883Theophrastos Sakellaridis was born — Greek composer and conductor. source 143 years ago
- 1892Oscar O'Brien was born — Canadian priest, pianist, and composer. source 134 years ago
- 1907Ahmed Adnan Saygun was born — Turkish composer and musicologist. source 119 years ago
- 1914Graeme Bell was born — Australian pianist and composer. source 112 years ago
- 1924Leonard Rosenman was born — American composer and conductor. source 102 years ago
- 1930Sonny Rollins was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 96 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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