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.
- 1666Attilio Ariosti was born — Italian viola player and composer. source 360 years ago
- 1705Louis-Gabriel Guillemain was born — French violinist and composer. source 321 years ago
- 1739Hugh Montgomerie was born — 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire. source 287 years ago
- 1895Walter Gieseking was born — French-German pianist and composer. source 131 years ago
- 1921Georges Cziffra was born — Hungarian pianist and composer. source 105 years ago
- 1942George M. Cohan died — American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner. source 84 years ago
- 1956Art Tatum died — American pianist and composer. source 70 years ago
- 1989Vladimir Horowitz died — Ukrainian-American pianist and composer. source 37 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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