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.
- 1558Hugh Aston died — English composer. source 468 years ago
- 1648Thomas Ford died — English viol player, composer, and poet. source 378 years ago
- 1816August Wilhelm Ambros was born — Austrian composer and historian. source 210 years ago
- 1927Robert Drasnin was born — American clarinet player and composer. source 99 years ago
- 1955James P. Johnson died — American pianist and composer. source 71 years ago
- 1959Heitor Villa-Lobos died — Brazilian guitarist and composer. source 67 years ago
- 1965Amanda Brown was born — Australian violinist and composer. source 61 years ago
- 1966Ben Allison was born — American bassist and composer. source 60 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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