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What piece by Johannes Brahms was Benny Goodman working on when he died?
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Jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, c. 1945.
On the day of his death on June 13, 1986, the renowned American jazz musician and clarinet virtuoso Benny Goodman was working on a sonata by Johannes Brahms.1