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.
- 1723Carl Friedrich Abel was born — German viol player and composer. source 303 years ago
- 1819Franz Abt was born — German composer and conductor. source 207 years ago
- 1858Giacomo Puccini was born. 168 years ago
- 1874Franz Schmidt was born — Austrian cellist, pianist, and composer. source 152 years ago
- 1876Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was born — Egyptian-Italian poet and composer. source 150 years ago
- 1883Edgard Varèse was born — French-American composer. source 143 years ago
- 1901Andre Kostelanetz was born — Russian-American conductor and composer. source 125 years ago
- 1921Dimitri Fampas was born — Greek guitarist and composer. source 105 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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