Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 17 January:   ANTONIO VERACINI = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1733]
• 10 September?:   HENRY PURCELL = English composer = [died: 1695]


• date unknown:
• MATTEO GOFFRILLER = Italian cello maker = [died: 1742]

Timeline of Events

• Final printing of Parthenia, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in Britain.
• FRAY GARCÍA DE SAN FRANCISCO founds a Catholic mission in what is now El Paso, Texas, making him perhaps the first music teacher in the future United States.

Publications

• GIOVANNI BATTISTA GRANATA = Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
• ANTHONI VAN NOORDT = Tabulatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen (Tablature-book of psalms and fantasies), a collection of organ music, published in Amsterdam

Classical Music

• ROBERT CAMBERT
• Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)

Opera

• ANTONIO BERTALI
• Il rè Gelidoro
• ROBERT CAMBERT
• Pastorale d'Issy