Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 9 January:   REINHARD KEISER = German opera composer = [died: 1739]
• 11 July:   ISAAC WATTS = English Christian hymnwriter, theologian and logician = [died: 1748]
• 29 September:   JACQUES-MARTIN HOTTETERRE = French composer and flautist = [died: 1763]
• November:   PIERRE DUMAGE = French organist and composer = [died: 1751]


• probable:
• JEREMIAH CLARKE = English composer and organist = [died: 1707]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• JOHANNES VOORHOUT paints the only known portrait of DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE.
• GIOVANNI PAOLO COLONNA becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
• Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus, by ROBERT CAMBERT, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.

Classical Music

• DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
• Mit Fried und Freud (composed in 1671, but published in 1674)
• Klag-Lied: Muss der Tod denn auch entbinden, chorale settings
• PAVEL JOSEF VEJVANOVSKÝ
• Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season)
• Bishop THOMAS KEN
• "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)

Opera

• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
• Alceste