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.
- 1562Adrian Willaert died — Dutch-Italian composer and educator. source 464 years ago
- 1637Bernardo Pasquini was born — Italian organist and composer. source 389 years ago
- 1827Teodoro Cottrau was born. 199 years ago
- 1863Pietro Mascagni was born — Italian composer and conductor. source 163 years ago
- 1870Stephen Ralph Glover died. 156 years ago
- 1879Rudolf Friml was born — Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic. source 147 years ago
- 1887Ernst Toch was born — Austrian-American composer and songwriter. source 139 years ago
- 1912Daniel Jones was born — Welsh captain and composer. source 114 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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