Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
Births
18 March:
GIUSEPPE OTTAVIO PITONI
= Italian organist and composer = [died: 1743]
25 July:
PHILIPP HEINRICH ERLEBACH
= German composer = [died: 1714]
15 December:
MICHEL RICHARD DELALANDE
= French composer and organist = [died: 1726]
probable:
GAETANO GRECO
= Italian composer = [died: c.1728]
Timeline of Events
11 March:
JOHANN ADAM REINCKEN
becomes organist of the Bergkerk at Deventer.
17 July:
Following the death of
TOBIAS MICHAEL
in June,
SEBASTIAN KNÜPFER
is appointed Thomaskantor at Leipzig.
MAURIZIO CAZZATI
becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and opens his violin school in Bologna.
King Louis XIV of France engages
ÉTIENNE RICHARD
as royal harpsichord teacher, in place of
JACQUES CHAMPION DE CHAMBONNIÈRES
.
Popular music
GASPAR DE VERLIT
=
Anthology of Christmas carols
Classical Music
JOANNES FLORENTIUS A KEMPIS
Cantiones Natalitiae
GIOVANNI LEGRENZI
Salmi a cinque
Opera
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Artemisia
MICHEL DE LA GUERRE
Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères
(sung in 1655, but first staged as an opera in 1657)
Please address any comments concerning this page to
The Music Maestro
Mark Chard
BSc, PLY
Page created: 20th August 2014
Last edited: 15th May 2023
