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International Music Day is annually celebrated on October 1.

International Music day or the IMD was initiated on 1 October 1975 by Lord Yehudi Menuhin. It was first organized by the International Music Council on 1 October 1975, in accordance with the resolution taken at the 15th General Assembly in Lausanne in 1973.

The IMC in its bid to establish a global harmony through the music, celebrates the International Music Day and with special focus on organizing musical events, radio and television programs and press recordings. Amidst all this the onus is also on building up an environment more conducive and hospitable to music-on the practice, consumption and the general aura of music. So, an important zone of interest is also struggle against the pollution of the sound environment and quite interestingly the IMC proposes that each country should maintain a few moments of silence on the International Music Day, and use that silence to listen to music played out in main city squares.

On International Music Day, the desired aim is to create a global atmosphere of music, a platform for people to come together with their diversities and mingle to make one unified whole.