On This Day – 24 February

1607 – the first performance of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

1711 – the first performance of Handel’s Rinaldo

1730 – the first performance of Handel’s Partenope

1876 – the first performance of Ibsen and Grieg’s Peer Gynt

Born OTD in 1877 Rudolph Ganz

Born OTD in 1932 Michel Legrand

Died OTD in 1666 Nicholas Lanier

Died OTD in 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Died OTD in 1929 – André Messager