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.
- 1707Charles Wesley was born — English missionary and composer. source 319 years ago
- 1734Jean-Baptiste Rey was born — French conductor and composer. source 292 years ago
- 1847Augusta Holmès was born — French pianist and composer. source 179 years ago
- 1860Edward MacDowell was born. 166 years ago
- 1861Lionel Monckton was born — English composer and critic. source 165 years ago
- 1869Louis Moreau Gottschalk died. 157 years ago
- 1888Francesco Florimo died. 138 years ago
- 1892Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker premiered. 134 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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