On This Day – 5 November

#OTD in 1724 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit’ BWV115

#OTD in 1837 the first performance of #Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts

#OTD in 1939 the first performance of #Shostakovich’s Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.54

#HappyBirthday to Attilio Ariosti born #OTD in 1666

#HappyBirthday to Louis-Gabriel Guillemain born #OTD in 1705

#HappyBirthday to Walter Gieseking born #OTD in 1895

#HappyBirthday to Georges Cziffra born #OTD in 1921

#OTD in 1956 the death of Art Tatum

#OTD in 1989 the death of Vladimir #Horowitz

#OTD in 2012 the death of Elliott Carter