On This Day – 27 October

#OTD in 1726 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen’ BWV56

#OTD in 1919 the first performance of #Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor

#OTD in 1986 the first performance of #Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

#HappyBirthday to Johann Gottlieb #Graun born #OTD in 1703

#HappyBirthday to Niccolò #Paganini born #OTD in 1782

#OTD in 2012 the death of Hans Werner #Henze