On This Day – 11 February

1725 – the first performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott’ BWV 127

1787 – the first performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor K466

1840 – the first performance of Donizetti’s La fille du régiment

1843 – the first performance of Verdi’s I Lombari

1903 – the first performance of Bruckner’s 9th Symphony