Composer of the Day iPhone App

Wittenberg University

A daily dose of music information

Want to learn a little more about composers? Download our free Composer of the Day app, for iPhone and iPod touch.

  • 366 composers (yes, one for Feb. 29 too!).
  • Concise, one-sentence biographies.
  • Coming soon: Links to sound clips for each composer.
Wittenberg University

Both major composers and minor composers are included. And we include Witt alum John Chowning (BM, ’59), “a pioneer in computer music” (New York Times, 2006) whose compositions “are among the most beautiful and sophisticated achievements in computer music” (Oxford Companion to Music, 2002).

Composer of the Day biographies were created by a team of Wittenberg music majors, faculty, and alums. Free download »

November 11, 2009
WQXR (the most listened-to classical music station in the U.S.) names Composer of the Day one of the Top Five Classical Music iPhone Apps. Their list of 5:

  1. Los Angeles Philharmonic
  2. Oxford Dictionary of Music
  3. Wittenberg’s Composer of the Day
  4. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
  5. Karajan: Music and Ear Trainer