Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 28 April:   MAGDALENA SIBYLLA of Hesse-Darmstadt = German composer of hymns = [died: 1712]
• 14 May:   JOHANN PHILIPP FÖRTSCH = German composer and doctor = [died: 1732]


• date unknown:
• DIEGO XARABA = Spanish composer = [died: 1715]

Timeline of Events

• ADAM DRESE becomes Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar.
• ANTHONI VAN NOORDT becomes the organist of Nieuwezijdskapel.

Publications

• HENRY DU MONT = Cantica sacra, a collection of sacred music

Classical Music

• DENIS GAULTIER
• Le Rhétorique des Dieux (the Eloquence of the Gods), a manuscript collection of 56 lute pieces

Opera

• ANTONIO BERTALI
• Niobe
• FRANCESCO CAVALLI
• Eritrea