Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

CATALDO AMODEI = Italian opera composer = [died: c. 1695]
PAPANASA MUDALIAR = Indian Carnatic music composer = [died: 1725]
GIOVANNI BATTISTA ROGERI = Italian luthier = [died: c. 1710]
ROBERT DE VISÉE = French luthenist, guitarist and viol player = [died: 1725]

Timeline of Events

1 May: The future King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters.
26 May: Oliver Cromwell leaves Ireland (following the Siege of Clonmel), occasioning ANDREW MARVELL's An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland.
23 June: Charles arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth) where he signs the Covenant.
3 September: Oliver Cromwell is victorious over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar.
30 October: The Religious Society of Friends acquires the nickname "Quakers" when the judge at George Fox's blasphemy trial says that they "tremble at the word of the Lord".

With the Treaty of Hartford, the Dutch and English establish the frontiers between their colonies in North America.
Cornelius Vermuyden completes excavation of the New Bedford River as part of the drainage of The Fens.
WILLIAM HOW publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica.

ALBERICH MAZAK = Cultus harmonicus, volume two, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna

Messa a quattro voci, et Salmi (Mass for four voices, and Psalms) (published posthumously)

Ghirlanda di varii fiori (Garland of Various Flowers), a collection of guitar music, published in Milan

Nuove suonate di chitarriglia spagnuola piccicate, e battute... , a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna

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The Music Maestro Mark Chard BSc, PLY

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Last edited: 14th May 2023