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.
- 1833Alexander Borodin was born — Russian composer and chemist. source 193 years ago
- 1897Karl Marx was born — German composer and conductor. source 129 years ago
- 1916Jean Papineau-Couture was born — Canadian composer and academic. source 110 years ago
- 1924Sam Jones was born — American bassist, cellist, and composer. source 102 years ago
- 1948Umberto Giordano died — Italian composer. source 78 years ago
- 1959Toshihiko Sahashi was born — Japanese composer. source 67 years ago
- 1970Oscar Strasnoy was born — French-Argentine composer. source 56 years ago
- 1972Rudolf Friml died — Czech-American pianist and composer. source 54 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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