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.
- 1522Jean Mouton died — French composer and educator. source 504 years ago
- 1853Pietro Raimondi died — Italian composer. source 173 years ago
- 1882Oldřich Duras was born — Czech chess player and composer. source 144 years ago
- 1883Robert Volkmann died — German pianist and composer. source 143 years ago
- 1894Peter Warlock was born. 132 years ago
- 1910Luciano Sgrizzi was born — Italian-Monegasque organist and composer. source 116 years ago
- 1914Richard E. Holz was born — American minister and composer. source 112 years ago
- 1930Clifford Brown was born — American trumpet player and composer. source 96 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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