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.
- 1583Orlando Gibbons was born — English organist and composer. source 443 years ago
- 1686Giovanni Battista Somis was born — Italian violinist and composer. source 340 years ago
- 1711Johann Nicolaus Hanff died. 315 years ago
- 1711Jean-Joseph de Mondonville was born — French violinist and composer. source 315 years ago
- 1728Johann Adam Hiller was born — German composer and conductor. source 298 years ago
- 1745Chevalier de Saint-Georges was born — Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor. source 281 years ago
- 1829Patrick Gilmore was born — Irish-American composer and bandleader. source 197 years ago
- 1903Antiochos Evangelatos was born — Greek composer and conductor. source 123 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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