On This Day – 23 April

OTD in 1724 – the first performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Du Hirte Israel, höre’ BWV 104

#OTD in 1881 – the first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience

Happy birthday to Robert Fayrfax, born #OTD in 1464

Happy birthday to Johann Friedrich Doles, born #OTD in 1715

Happy birthday to Ruggero Leoncavallo, born #OTD in 1857

Happy birthday to Albert Coates, born #OTD in 1882

#OTD in 1616, death of the poet and playwright William Shakespeare

#OTD in 1695, death of the poet Henry Vaughan

#OTD in 1850, death of the poet William Wordsworth

#OTD in 1915, death of the poet Rupert Brooke

#OTD in 1986, death of the composer Harold Arlen