Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 28 July:   ANTONIO TARSIA = Italian composer = [died: 1722]
• December:   JOHANN ADAM REINCKEN = Dutch/German organist and composer = [died: 1722]


• date unknown:
• MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER = French composer = [died: 1704]

Timeline of Events

• Composer JOHANN CRÜGER meets hymn-writer PAUL GERHARDT, resulting in a collaboration.
• JOHANN VON RIST publishes his Himmlische Lieder, later set to music by JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.
• PIERRE ROBERT becomes master of music at Senlis Cathedral.

Publications

• MARCO SCACCHI = Cribrum musicum

Popular Music

• JEAN DE BRÉBEUF = "Huron Carol" (Canada's oldest Christmas song)

Opera

• CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
• L'Incoronazione di Poppea
• FRANCESCO CAVALLI
• Egisto (opera)