On this day – 5 September

OTD in 1723 – the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz’ BWV 138

#OTD in 1733 – the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen’ BWV 213

#OTD in 1857 – the first performance of #Liszt’s #Faust Symphony

#OTD in 1950 – the first performance of #Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality

#OTD in 1956 – the first performance of #Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op.53

#OTD in 1980 – the first performance of @PhilipGlass’s Satyagraha

#HappyBirthday to František Václav Míča born #OTD in 1694

#HappyBirthday to Johann Christian Bach born #OTD in 1735

#HappyBirthday to Anton Diabelli born #OTD in 1781

#HappyBirthday to Giacomo Meyerbeer born #OTD in 1791

#HappyBirthday to Amy Beach born #OTD in 1867

#HappyBirthday to John Cage born #OTD in 1912

#HappyBirthday to Helen Gifford born #OTD in 1935

#HappyBirthday to Eduardo Mata born #OTD in 1942

#HappyBirthday to Marc-André Hamelin born #OTD in 1961

#OTD in 1629 – the death of Domenico #Allegri – sadly we couldn’t find a recording of his 1617 “Modi quos expositis in choris” but many recordings of his older brother’s Miserere mei

#OTD in 1734 – the death of Nicolas Bernier

#OTD in 1997 – the death of Georg #Solti