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.
- 1625Jacqueline Pascal was born — French nun and composer. source 401 years ago
- 1661Jacqueline Pascal died — French nun and composer. source 365 years ago
- 1835Jenny Twitchell Kempton was born — American opera singer and educator. source 191 years ago
- 1940Steve Swallow was born — American bass player and composer. source 86 years ago
- 1959Hitonari Tsuji was born — Japanese author, composer, and director. source 67 years ago
- 1999Art Farmer died — American trumpet player and composer. source 27 years ago
- 2013Akira Miyoshi died — Japanese composer. source 13 years ago
- 2014Konrad Boehmer died — German-Dutch composer and educator. source 12 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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