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.
- 1630Johann Hermann Schein died. 396 years ago
- 1785Bernard de Bury died — French harpsichord player and composer. source 241 years ago
- 1804Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi died — Italian composer. source 222 years ago
- 1828Franz Schubert died. 198 years ago
- 1859Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was born — Russian composer, conductor, and educator. source 167 years ago
- 1905Tommy Dorsey was born — American trombonist, composer and bandleader. source 121 years ago
- 1922Salil Chowdhury was born — Indian director, playwright, and composer. source 104 years ago
- 2004George Canseco died — Filipino journalist and composer. source 22 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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