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.
- 1618Giulio Caccini died — Italian composer and educator. source 408 years ago
- 1665Tarquinio Merula died — Italian organist, violinist, and composer. source 361 years ago
- 1822César Franck was born. 204 years ago
- 1885Marios Varvoglis was born — Greek composer and conductor. source 141 years ago
- 1908Olivier Messiaen was born — French composer and ornithologist. source 118 years ago
- 1913Morton Gould was born — American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 113 years ago
- 1919Alexander Courage was born — American composer and conductor. source 107 years ago
- 1957Paul Hardcastle was born — English composer and producer. source 69 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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