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.
- 1862Johan Wagenaar was born — Dutch organist and composer. source 164 years ago
- 1877Roger Quilter was born — English composer. source 149 years ago
- 1931Shunsuke Kikuchi was born — Japanese composer. source 95 years ago
- 1934William Mathias was born — Welsh pianist and composer. source 92 years ago
- 1936Katsuhisa Hattori was born — Japanese composer and conductor. source 90 years ago
- 1940Roger Kellaway was born — American pianist and composer. source 86 years ago
- 1942Hugo Distler died — German organist, composer, and conductor. source 84 years ago
- 1986Serge Garant died — Canadian composer and conductor. source 40 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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