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.
- 1631Sebastian Anton Scherer was born — German organist and composer. source 395 years ago
- 1713Antoine Dauvergne was born — French violinist and composer. source 313 years ago
- 1828Woldemar Bargiel was born — German composer and educator. source 198 years ago
- 1901Jean Grémillon was born — French director, composer, and screenwriter. source 125 years ago
- 1917Eduardo Di Capua died. 109 years ago
- 1931Carl Nielsen died — Danish violinist, composer, and conductor. source 95 years ago
- 1934Benjamin Boretz was born — American composer and theorist. source 92 years ago
- 1936Steve Reich was born — American composer. source 90 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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