Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 February:   GIOVANNI BATTISTA VITALI = Italian composer and violone player = [died: 1692]
• 2 April (baptised):   GEORG CASPAR WECKER = German organist and composer = [died: 1695]
• 28 November:   JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY = Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer = [died: 1687]

Timeline of Events

• Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
• WILLIAM CHILD becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Publications

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI = Second book of scherzi musicali
• WALTER PORTER = Madrigales and Ayres

Opera

• STEFANO LANDI
• Sant'Alessio