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.
- 1721Peter Pelham was born — English-American organist and composer. source 305 years ago
- 1728Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi was born — Italian composer. source 298 years ago
- 1745Maddalena Laura Sirmen was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 281 years ago
- 1796Emilie Zumsteeg was born. 230 years ago
- 1837Émile Waldteufel was born — French pianist, composer, and conductor. source 189 years ago
- 1882Joaquín Turina was born — Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator. source 144 years ago
- 1924Bernard Zweers died — Dutch composer and educator. source 102 years ago
- 1925Eugène Gigout died. 101 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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