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.
- 1599Francisco Guerrero died — Spanish composer. source 427 years ago
- 1725Johann George Tromlitz was born — German flute player and composer. source 301 years ago
- 1883Arnold Bax was born — English composer and poet. source 143 years ago
- 1888David Monrad Johansen was born — Norwegian pianist and composer. source 138 years ago
- 1890César Franck died. 136 years ago
- 1921Douglas Townsend was born — American composer, musicologist, and academic. source 105 years ago
- 1938Richard Stoker was born — English composer, author, and poet. source 88 years ago
- 1945Arnold Rosner was born — American composer. source 81 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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