Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 July:   GIOVANNI BONONCINI = Italian cellist and composer = [died: 1747]
• 19 July:   RICHARD LEVERIDGE = English singer and composer = [died: 1758]


• date unknown:
• TURLOUGH O'CAROLAN = Irish harpist and composer = [died: 1738]
• ANTONIO CALDARA = Italian composer = [died: 1736]

Timeline of Events

• June: CHRISTIAN GEIST joins the Swedish court orchestra under GUSTAF DÜBEN.
• 14 October: First performance of MOLIÈRE's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.

Publications

• ANGELO BERARDI = Discorsi musicali

Classical Music

• MAURIZIO CAZZATI
• Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
• JACQUES CHAMPION DE CHAMBONNIÈRES
• Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
• DENIS GAULTIER
• Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux

Opera

• LUDOVICO BUSCA
• L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni