Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 5 January:   PAOLO LORENZANI = Italian composer = [died: 1713]
• 4 April:   GASPAR SANZ = Spanish priest and composer = [died: 1710]
• 8 August:   AMALIA CATHARINA = German poet and composer = [died: 1697]
• 4 November:   CARLO MANNELLI = Italian violinist, castrato singer and composer = [died: 1697]


• probable:
• ANTONIA BEMBO = Italian singer and composer = [died: c. 1720]

Timeline of Events

• 21 January: Salmacida Spolia, the final royal masque of the Caroline era, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by composer LEWIS RICHARD

Publications

Music

• ANGELO MICHELE BARTOLOTTI = Libro primo di chitarra spagnola, published in Florence
• JOHANNES HIERONYMUS KAPSBERGER = Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarrone

Theory

• PIETRO DELLA VALLE = Della musica dell'età nostra che non è punto inferiore, anzi è migliore di quella dell'età passata (About the Music of our Time, which is not Worse but Better than that of Previous Ages)

Classical Music

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• Selva morale e spirituale, published in Venice

Opera

• FRANCESCO CAVALLI
• Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
• BENEDETTO FERRARI
• Il pastor region, premiéred in Venice
• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria