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.
- 1738William Herschel was born — German-English astronomer and composer. source 288 years ago
- 1746Joseph Quesnel was born — French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer. source 280 years ago
- 1787Christoph Willibald Gluck died. 239 years ago
- 1858Johanna Kinkel died. 168 years ago
- 1888Artie Matthews was born — American pianist and composer. source 138 years ago
- 1905Mantovani was born — Italian conductor and composer. source 121 years ago
- 1923Văn Cao was born — Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter. source 103 years ago
- 1924Gianni Ferrio was born — Italian composer and conductor. source 102 years ago
No entries for this date yet — the calendar fills in as the library grows. Try another day.
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.
Advertisement
Ad space — 970×250 · paste your AdSense unit here