Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 June:   ANTONIO DE LITERES = Spanish composer of zarzuelas = [died: 1747]
• 26 October:   DIMITRIE CANTEMIR = Moldavian composer, musicologist and polymath = [died: 1723]


• date unknown:
• JOHANNES KELPIUS = German, "the first Pennsylvanian composer" = [died: 1708]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• JOHN BLOW becomes organist of Westminster Abbey.
• AGOSTINO STEFFANI begins his studies in Rome under ERCOLE BERNABEI.
• JOHANN MICHAEL BACH becomes organist and town clerk of Gehren.
• ROBERT CAMBERT arrives in Britain.
• GIOVANNI MARIA BONONCINI publishes his treatise, Musico prattico.
• HENRY PURCELL is apprenticed to the organist JOHN HINGESTON.

Classical Music

• GIOVANNI LEGRENZI
• Violin Duo and continuo
• La Cetra (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas

Opera

• WOLFGANG CARL BRIEGEL
• Das verliebte Gespenst
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
• Cadmus et Hermione
• ANTONIO SARTORIO
• Orfeo
• PIETRO ANDREA ZIANI
• Marcello in Siracuse