On This Day – 7 May

OTD in 1724 – the first performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Wo gehest du hin?’ BWV 166

#OTD in 1824 – the first performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 ‘Choral’

Happy Birthday to Carl Heinrich Graun, born #OTD in 1701

Happy Birthday to Johannes Brahms, born #OTD in 1833

Happy Birthday to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born #OTD in 1840

Happy Birthday to Anne Dudley, born #OTD in 1956

#OTD in 1667, the death of composer Johann Jakob Froberger

#OTD in 1793, the death of composer Pietro Nardini

#OTD in 1800, the death of composer Niccolò Piccinni

#OTD in 1825, the death of composer Antonio Salieri

#OTD in 1942, the death of composer Felix Weingartner