On This Day – 27 February

1713 – the first performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd’ BWV 208

1729 First probable performance of Bach’s Cantata ‘Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem’ BWV 159

1740 – the first performance of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

1814 – the first performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.8 in F major

1914 – the first performance of Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow

1936 – the first performance of Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur

Born OTD in 1689 Pietro Gnocchi

Born OTD in 1848 Hubert Parry

Born OTD in 1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

Born OTD in 1943 Morten Lauridsen

Died OTD in 1887 Alexander Borodin