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.
- 1559Jacquet of Mantua died — French-Italian composer. source 467 years ago
- 1629Antonio Cifra died — Italian composer. source 397 years ago
- 1893Leroy Shield was born — American composer and conductor. source 133 years ago
- 1919John W. Duarte was born — English guitarist and composer. source 107 years ago
- 1920Max Bruch died — German composer and conductor. source 106 years ago
- 1921Edmund Crispin was born — English writer and composer. source 105 years ago
- 1960Django Bates was born — English musician and composer. source 66 years ago
- 2001Franz Biebl died — German composer and academic. source 25 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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