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.
- 1696Andrea Zani was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 330 years ago
- 1896Shirley Graham Du Bois was born — American author, playwright, composer, and activist. source 130 years ago
- 1936Edward German died. 90 years ago
- 1945Jerome Kern died — American composer. source 81 years ago
- 1962James Morrison was born — Australian trumpet player and composer. source 64 years ago
- 1968Jeanne Demessieux died — French pianist and composer. source 58 years ago
- 1974Alfonso Leng died — Chilean dentist, composer, and academic. source 52 years ago
- 1979Dimitri Tiomkin died — Ukrainian-American composer and conductor. source 47 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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