On This Day – 1 October

#OTD in 1724 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost’ BWV 114

#OTD in 1912 The first performance of @ElgarFestival #Elgar’s The Music Makers

#OTD in 1961 The first performance of #Shostakovich’s Symphony No.12 in D minor, Op.112 ‘The Year 1917’

#OTD in 2005 First performance of @HellTweet Adams’ Doctor Atomic

#HappyBirthday to Giovanni Battista #Cirri born #OTD in 1724

#HappyBirthday to Anton Cajetan #Adlgasser born #OTD in 1729

#HappyBirthday to Pierre #Baillot born #OTD in 1771

#HappyBirthday to Vladimir #Horowitz born #OTD in 1903

#OTD in 1708 the death of #JohnBlow

#OTD in 2007 the death of #RonnieHazlehurst – a reflection by Matt Berry