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.
- 1600Claude Le Jeune died — French composer. source 426 years ago
- 1767Wenzel Müller was born — Austrian composer and conductor. source 259 years ago
- 1800William Billings died — American composer and educator. source 226 years ago
- 1869Komitas was born — Armenian-French priest and composer. source 157 years ago
- 1898George Gershwin was born — American pianist and composer. source 128 years ago
- 1945Béla Bartók died — Hungarian pianist and composer. source 81 years ago
- 1946John MacLachlan Gray was born — Canadian actor, playwright, and composer. source 80 years ago
- 2000Baden Powell de Aquino died — Brazilian guitarist and composer. source 26 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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