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.

April 24

  • 1706Giovanni Battista Martini was born — Italian pianist and composer. source 320 years ago
  • 1937Joe Henderson was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 89 years ago
  • 1941John Williams was born — Australian-English guitarist and composer. source 85 years ago
  • 1948Jāzeps Vītols died — Latvian composer. source 78 years ago
  • 1962Milt Franklyn died — American composer. source 64 years ago
  • 1964Witold Smorawiński was born — Polish guitarist, composer, and educator. source 62 years ago
  • 1968Roxanna Panufnik was born — English composer. source 58 years ago
  • 2008Jimmy Giuffre died — American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer. source 18 years ago

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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