On This Day – 6 December

#OTD in 1716 the first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!’ BWV70

#OTD in 1846 the first performance of #Berlioz’s La damnation de #Faust

#OTD in 1922 the first performance of #Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor

#OTD in 1940 – the first performance of #Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto Op.36

#HappyBirthday to Joseph Lamb born #OTD in 1887

#HappyBirthday to Dave Brubeck born #OTD in 1920

#HappyBirthday to Henryk Górecki born #OTD in 1933

#OTD in 1716 the death of Benedictus Buns