On This Day – 1 January

#OTD in 1724 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied’ BWV190

#OTD in 1725 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Jesu, nun sei gepreiset’ BWV41

#OTD in 1726 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Herr Gott, dich loben wir’ BWV16

#OTD in 1729 the first probable performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm’ BWV171

#OTD in 1734 the first performance of #Bach’s #Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248, Part 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD548tPat1Q

#OTD in 1773 the first performance of ‘Amazing Grace’

#OTD in 1957 the first performance of Britten’s The Prince of the Pagodas

#OTD in 1782 the death of Johann Christoph #Bach