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.
- 1599Étienne Moulinié was born — French composer and director. source 427 years ago
- 1669Johann Nicolaus Bach was born — German organist and composer. source 357 years ago
- 1813Giuseppe Verdi was born. 213 years ago
- 1889Adolf von Henselt died. 137 years ago
- 1903Vernon Duke was born — Russian-American composer and songwriter. source 123 years ago
- 1906Paul Creston was born — American composer and educator. source 120 years ago
- 1908Johnny Green was born — American conductor and composer. source 118 years ago
- 1915Harry Edison was born — American trumpet player and composer. source 111 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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