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.
- 1709Georg Gebel was born — German organist and composer. source 317 years ago
- 1815Camillo Sivori was born — Italian virtuoso violinist and composer. source 211 years ago
- 1825Johann Strauss II was born. 201 years ago
- 1838Georges Bizet was born. 188 years ago
- 1864Alexander Gretchaninov was born — Russian-American pianist and composer. source 162 years ago
- 1866Georg Schumann was born — German composer. source 160 years ago
- 1904Cemal Reşit Rey was born — Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor. source 122 years ago
- 1926Jimmy Heath was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 100 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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