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.
- 1685Lodovico Giustini was born — Italian pianist and composer. source 341 years ago
- 1907Roy Douglas was born — English pianist and composer. source 119 years ago
- 1923Bob Dorough was born — American musician, composer, and producer. source 103 years ago
- 1923Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was born — Ethiopian pianist, composer and nun. source 103 years ago
- 1925Vladimir Shainsky was born — Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer. source 101 years ago
- 1929Toshiko Akiyoshi was born — Japanese pianist and composer. source 97 years ago
- 1937Philip Ledger was born — English pianist, composer, and academic. source 89 years ago
- 1942Bob Thompson was born — American jazz pianist, composer and arranger. source 84 years ago
No entries for this date yet — the calendar fills in as the library grows. Try another day.
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.
Advertisement
Ad space — 970×250 · paste your AdSense unit here