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.
- 1699Jan Zach was born — Czech violinist, organist, and composer. source 327 years ago
- 1817Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély was born. 209 years ago
- 1854George Whitefield Chadwick was born — American composer and educator. source 172 years ago
- 1868Gioachino Rossini died — Italian pianist and composer. source 158 years ago
- 1921Joonas Kokkonen was born — Finnish pianist and composer. source 105 years ago
- 1939Idris Muhammad was born — American drummer and composer. source 87 years ago
- 1945Knut Riisnæs was born — Norwegian saxophonist and composer. source 81 years ago
- 1973Ari Hoenig was born — American drummer and composer. source 53 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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