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.
- 1672Benjamin Schmolck was born — German pastor and composer. source 354 years ago
- 1728Hermann Raupach was born — German harpsichord player and composer. source 298 years ago
- 1840Ernest de Munck was born — Belgian cellist and composer. source 186 years ago
- 1850Zdeněk Fibich was born — Czech composer and poet. source 176 years ago
- 1872Lorenzo Perosi was born — Italian priest and composer. source 154 years ago
- 1890Niels Gade died. 136 years ago
- 1940Frank Zappa was born — American singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer. source 86 years ago
- 1944Michael Tilson Thomas was born — American pianist, composer, and conductor. source 82 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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