On This Day in Music for March 24
Events in Music
- 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
- 1824 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" in St. Petersburg
- 1924 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertföreningenin in Stockholm
- 1934 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 premieres in Leningrad, USSR
- 1955 Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
- 1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)
- 1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
- 1975 New Orleans R&B piano player Professor Longhair with the Meters perform at record release party for Paul McCartney and Wings' "Venus and Mars", aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California
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Musicians Born on Mar 24
- 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer, born in Magdeburg, Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1767)
- 1714 Carlo Giovanni Testori, Italian composer (d. 1782)
- 1732 Gian Francesco de Majo, Italian composer, born in Naples (d. 1770)
- 1740 John Antes, American composer and missionary, born in Frederick, Pennsylvania (d. 1811)
Musicians Who Died on Mar 24
- 1631 Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68
- 1654 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
- 1755 Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer, dies at 72
- 1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64
March in Music History
Carmen – the Show that Shocked Paris
Carmen, the opera about a sensuous woman who seduces a soldier, had its premiere on this day and dismissed as a flop. Today, it is performed all over the world.
March 3, 1875
Steinway & Sons Piano
Steinway Piano Advertisement circa 1866
March 5, 1853
Wave of Doubt over Britannia
The composer who put "Rule, Britannia!" to music was born on this day, but the original words are not quite what they bellow out at the Last Night of the Proms.
March 12, 1710
Elvis Presley in the Army
Conscripted in 1958, Elvis Presley served two years in the U.S. Army
March 24, 1958