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.
- 1492Antoine Busnois died — French composer and poet. source 534 years ago
- 1672Heinrich Schütz died — German organist and composer. source 354 years ago
- 1854John Philip Sousa was born. 172 years ago
- 1884May Brahe was born — Australian composer. source 142 years ago
- 1893P. I. Tchaikovsky died. 133 years ago
- 1929Lu Chao-Hsuan was born — Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator.. source 97 years ago
- 1937Leo Goeke was born — American tenor and actor. source 89 years ago
- 1941Guy Clark was born — American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. source 85 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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