On This Day – 6 January

#OTD in 1724 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen’ BWV65

#OTD in 1725 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen’ BWV123

#OTD in 1734 the first performance of #Bach’s #Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248, Part 6

#HappyBirthday to Max #Bruch born #OTD in 1838

#HappyBirthday to Alexander #Scriabin born #OTD in 1872

#OTD in 1852 the death of Louis Braille

#OTD in 1993 the death of Rudolf #Nureyev – with Margot Fonteyn in the Act III Pas de deux from #Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake