Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 19 February:   CHARLES-HUBERT GERVAIS = French composer = [died: 1744]
• 21 May:   AZZOLINO BERNARDINO DELLA CIAJA = Italian organist, harpsichordist, composer and organ builder = [died: 1755]
• 8 June:   TOMASO ALBINONI = Italian composer = [died: 1751]
• 16 June:   JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH = German musician and composer = [died: 1721]
• 30 June:   TEODORICO PEDRINI = Italian priest, missionary, musician and composer = [died: 1746]
• September:   ANTOINE FORQUERAY = French viola da gamba virtuoso and composer = [died: 1745]


• probable:
• ROBERT VALENTINE = English recorder player and composer = [died: 1747]

Timeline of Events

• 3 March: Opening of the Paris Opera, with an opera by ROBERT CAMBERT.


• Also in 1671:
• PHILIPPE QUINAULT, MOLIÈRE and PIERRE CORNEILLE, collaborate with JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY on a court entertainment.
• ARCANGELO CORELLI settles in Rome after spending four years studying violin in Bologna.
• MAURIZIO CAZZATI is dismissed from his post as Maestro di Cappella in San Petronio, Bologna, as a result of controversy over his alleged failure to enforce the rules of counterpoint, and returns to Mantua where he spends the rest of his career as Maestro di Cappella da Camera to Duchess Isabella.
• IGNAZIO ALBERTINI arrives in Vienna with a letter of recommendation from JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER.

Classical Music

• JOHANN GEORG AHLE
• Neues Zehn Geistlicher Arien
• GIOVANNI LEGRENZI
• Op. 8, a collection of sonatas

Opera

• ROBERT CAMBERT
• Pomone
• ANTONIO PIETRO DEGLI
• L'inganno fortunato
• ANTONIO DRAGHI
• L'avidità di Mida
• DOMENICO FRESCHI & GASPARO SARTORIO
• Iphide greca