Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 22 April:   GIUSEPPE TORELLI = Italian composer = [died: 1709]


• probable:
• JEAN DESFONTAINES = French composer = [died: c.1752]

Timeline of Events

• JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER leaves Vienna for the last time.
• Sir WILLIAM DAVENANT's "operatic show," The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, is staged at the Cockpit Theatre in London during the summer.

Publications

• HENRY LAWES = Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, vol. 3
• ETIENNE MOULINIÉ = Meslanges de sujets Chrestiens ... avec une basse continue, a collection of sacred music

Classical Music

• ANDREAS HAMMERSCHMIDT
• Chorale: Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, text CHRISTIAN KEYMANN

Opera

• JOHANN CASPAR VON KERLL
• Applausi Festivi