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.
- 1730Capel Bond was born — English organist and composer. source 296 years ago
- 1738Jan Antonín Koželuh was born — Czech composer and educator. source 288 years ago
- 1788C. P. E. Bach died. 238 years ago
- 1789Maria Szymanowska was born — Polish composer and pianist. source 237 years ago
- 1883Manolis Kalomiris was born — Greek pianist and composer. source 143 years ago
- 1920Clark Terry was born — American trumpet player, composer, and educator. source 106 years ago
- 1946John Du Prez was born — English conductor and composer. source 80 years ago
- 1953René Eespere was born — Estonian composer. source 73 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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