Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 11 February:   FRIEDRICH NICOLAUS BRAUNS = German composer and music director = [died: 1718]
• 7 December:   BERNARDO PASQUINI = Italian composer of opera and church music = [died: 1710]


• date unknown:
• GIOVANNI GRANCINO = Italian luthier = [died: 1709]


• probable:
• DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE = Danish-German organist and composer = [died: 1707]

Timeline of Events

• The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice
• JOHANN JAKOB FROBERGER travels to Rome to study under GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
• DELPHIN STRUNGK becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick
• ROBERT RAMSEY, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college
• ANTONIO CESTI joins the Franciscan order
• The Westminster Musicians Guild attempts to assert control over the musicians of London, in competition with the Worshipful Company of Musicians

Classical Music

• BENEDETTO FERRARI
• Musiche varier a voce sola, volume 2, published in Venice
• GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
• Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca
• TARQUINIO MERULA
• Canzoni overo Sonate concertate per chiesa e camera

Opera

• BENEDETTO FERRARI & FRANCESCO MANELLI
• Andromeda, the first publicly shown opera, premiéred at Teatro San Cassiano, in Venice, during carnival
• VIRGILIO MAZZOCCHI & MARCO MARAZZOLI
• Chi soffre, speri (premièred 12 February)