Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 February:   JEAN-BAPTISTE MORIN = French composer = [died: 1745]
• 4 February:   JOHANN LUDWIG BACH = German violinist and composer = [died: 1731]
• 26 February:   NICOLA FAGO = Italian composer and music teacher = [died: 1745]
• 18 June:   ANTONIO MARIA BONONCINI = Italian cellist and composer = [died: 1726]
• 27 September:   GIOVANNI CARLO MARIA CLARI = Italian composer = [died: 1754]


• date unknown:
• CHRISTIAN PETZOLD = German organist and composer = [died: c.1733]

Timeline of Events

• HENRY PURCELL becomes a musician at the court of King Charles II of England.
• CHARLES DAVENANT's "semi-opera" Circe, with music by composer JOHN BANISTER, is performed in London by the Duke's Company in May.
• NIKOLAY DILETSKY publishes Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (Грамматика музикийского пения, "A grammar of musical song")

Classical Music

• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
• Te Deum, first performed on September 9, for the baptism of Lully's son
• ALESSANDRO POGLIETTI
• Rossignolo

Opera

• CARLO GROSSI
• La Giocasta, regina d'Armenia