Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 23 February:   GEORG DIETRICH LEYDING = German organist and composer = [died: 1710]
• March:   GEORG ÖSTERREICH = German composer = [died: 1735]
• 28 June:   NICOLAS BERNIER = French composer = [died: 1734]
• 9 November:   JOHANN SPETH = German organist and composer = [died: c. 1720]


• date unknown:
• DANIEL PURCELL = English composer = [died: 1717]

Timeline of Events

• Following the disgrace of JACQUES CHAMPION DE CHAMBONNIÈRES, JEAN-HENRI D'ANGLEBERT assumes the position of harpsichordist to Louis XIV, King of France.
• ANTHONI VAN NOORDT becomes organist at the Nieuwe Kerk

Classical Music

• HEINRICH SCHÜTZ
• Weihnachts-Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio)
• BERNARDO STORACE
• Selva di varie compositioni
• JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER
• Sonatae unarum fidium, seu a violin solo

Opera

• ANTONIO MARIA ABBATINI
• Ione
• ANTONIO BERTALI
• Pazzo amor