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.
- 1690François Colin de Blamont was born — French composer. source 336 years ago
- 1710Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was born — German composer. source 316 years ago
- 1780Conradin Kreutzer was born — German composer. source 246 years ago
- 1870Howard Brockway was born — American composer. source 156 years ago
- 1900Arthur Sullivan died. 126 years ago
- 1901Joaquín Rodrigo was born — Spanish pianist and composer. source 125 years ago
- 1913Benjamin Britten was born — English pianist, composer, and conductor. source 113 years ago
- 1948Clara Mathilda Faisst died. 78 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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