Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 14 January:   THOMAS BRITTON = English concert promoter = [died: 1714]
• 12 August:   HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER = German composer of sonatas = [died: 1704]
• 23 December:   TOMÁS DE TORREJÓN Y VELASCO = Peruvian organist and composer = [died: 1728]


• date unknown:
• MARIA CATTARINA CALEGARI = Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun = [died: after 1675]
• VÁCLAV KAREL HOLAN ROVENSKÝ = Czech organist and composer = [died: 1718]


• probable:
• IGNAZIO ALBERTINI = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1685]


• possible:
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA VITALI = Italian composer of sonatas = [died: 1692]

Timeline of Events

• 21 June Future Dean of Salisbury THOMAS PIERCE graduates M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is noted as a "musician and poet".


• date unknown:
• PIETER and FRANÇOIS HEMONY cast the world's first tuned carillon, which is installed in Zutphen's Wijnhuistoren.

Classical Music

• NICOLAUS À KEMPIS
• Symphoniae, vol. 1
• BONAVENTURA RUBINO
• Vespro dello Stellario

Opera

• FRANCESCO SACRATI
• La finta pazza
• SIGMUND THEOPHIL STADEN
• Seelewig, the first German singspiel
• FRANCESCO CAVALLI
• L'Ormindo