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.
- 1615Sethus Calvisius died — German composer and theorist. source 411 years ago
- 1650Manuel Cardoso died — Portuguese organist and composer. source 376 years ago
- 1690Charles Theodore Pachelbel was born — German organist and composer. source 336 years ago
- 1722Johann Adam Reincken died — Dutch-German organist and composer. source 304 years ago
- 1852Helena Munktell was born. 174 years ago
- 1868Scott Joplin was born — American pianist and composer. source 158 years ago
- 1927Emma Lou Diemer was born — American composer. source 99 years ago
- 1934Alfred Schnittke was born — German-Russian journalist and composer. source 92 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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