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.
- 1654Johann Bernhard Staudt was born — Austrian composer. source 372 years ago
- 1801Albert Lortzing was born — German singer-songwriter and actor. source 225 years ago
- 1923Ned Rorem was born — American composer and author. source 103 years ago
- 1927Sonny Criss was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 99 years ago
- 1942Ralph Rainger died — American pianist and composer. source 84 years ago
- 1945Maury Yeston was born — American composer, lyricist, and music theorist. source 81 years ago
- 1955Toshio Hosokawa was born — Japanese composer. source 71 years ago
- 1971Carlo Forlivesi was born — Italian-Japanese composer and scholar. source 55 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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