Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 17 March:   ÉLISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE = French harpsichordist and composer = [died: 1729]


• date unknown:
• BENEDIKT ANTON AUFSCHNAITER = Austrian composer = [died: 1742]
• NICOLAUS BRUHNS = Danish-German organist and composer = [died: 1697]
• JOHANN NIKOLAUS HANFF = German organist and composer = [died: 1712]
• JOSÉ DE TORRES = Spanish composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher = [died: 1738]


• probable:
• CARLO GIUSEPPE TESTORE = Italian luthier = [died: 1716]

Timeline of Events

• 27 May: JOHN LOOSEMORE completes the construction of the organ at Exeter Cathedral.
• FRANCESCO CAVALLI becomes first organist of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Publications

• WOJCIECH BOBOWSKI = Mezmurlar, a collection of psalms in Turkish

Classical Music

• JOHN BLOW
• I will always give thanks
• GUILLAUME-GABRIEL NIVERS
• Livre d'orgue contenant cent pièces de tous les tons de l'église
• (the first organ collection that featured forms that became standard for the French Baroque organ school)

Opera

• ANTONIO BERTALI
• L'Alcindo
• ANDREA MATTIOLI
• Ciro