On This Day – 9 January

#OTD in 1724 – the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren’ BWV 154

#OTD in 1806 State funeral of #Nelson Thomas

#OTD in 1904 – the first performance of Debussy’s Estampes (“”Prints””) L.100

#OTD in 1909 – the first performance of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit

#OTD in 1939 the death of Johann #Strauss II