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.

September 23

  • 1642Giovanni Maria Bononcini was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 384 years ago
  • 1835Vincenzo Bellini died — Italian composer. source 191 years ago
  • 1867John Lomax was born — American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist. source 159 years ago
  • 1907Tiny Bradshaw was born — American singer-songwriter and pianist. source 119 years ago
  • 1909Lorenc Antoni was born — Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor. source 117 years ago
  • 1926John William Coltrane was born — American jazz saxophonist and composer. source 100 years ago
  • 1928Frank Foster was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 98 years ago
  • 2006Malcolm Arnold died — English trumpet player and composer. source 20 years ago

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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