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.
- 1687Johann Georg Pisendel was born — German violinist and composer. source 339 years ago
- 1904Alejo Carpentier was born — Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author. source 122 years ago
- 1926Earle Brown was born — American composer. source 100 years ago
- 1930Jean Ferrat was born — French singer-songwriter and poet. source 96 years ago
- 1937Ivor Gurney died. 89 years ago
- 1939Phil Spector was born — American singer-songwriter and producer. source 87 years ago
- 1988Pablo Sorozábal died — German-Spanish composer and conductor. source 38 years ago
- 2009Felix Wurman died — American cellist and composer. source 17 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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