On This Day – 6 May

#OTD in 1725 – the first performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen’ BWV 87

#OTD in 1895 – the first performance of Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28

#OTD in 1896 – the first performance of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No.5 in F major, Op.103 ‘The Egyptian’

Happy Birthday to Jean-Baptiste Stuck, born #OTD in 1680

#OTD in 1596, the death of composer Giaches de Wert

#OTD in 1973, the death of composer Ernest MacMillan