Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 6 July:   JACOPO MELANI = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1676]
• 5 August:   ANTONIO CESTI = Italian composer = [died: 1669]


• date unknown:
• JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER = Austrian violinist and composer = [died: 1688]


• probable:
• DIETRICH BECKER = German violinist and composer = [died: c.1679]

Timeline of Events

• Drum cymbals are made by the Avedis Zildjian Company. Zildjian cymbals were created in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold; he created an alloy combining tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal that could make musical sounds without shattering. Avedis was given the name of Zildjian (Zilciyân) by the Sultan Osman II (from the Turkish word zil cymbal, dji maker/seller, -ian a common suffix used in Armenian last names) and began an industry in 1623, the details of whose main product remained secret for generations. It became family tradition that only the company's heirs would know the manufacturing process.

Classical Music

• ALESSANDRO PICCININI
• Intavolatura di liuto, et di chitarrone
• SALAMONE ROSSI
• (Ha-shirim asher l'Shlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical music