Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 March:   ANTONIO VIVALDI = Italian composer = [died: 1741]
• 6 July:   NICOLA FRANCESCO HAYM = Italian opera librettist and composer = [died: 1727]
• 30 December:   WILLIAM CROFT = English organist and composer = [died: 1727]


• probable:
• MANUEL DE ZUMAYA = Mexican composer = [died: 1755]

Timeline of Events

• 19 June: GUILLAUME-GABRIEL NIVERS is appointed to join NICOLAS LEBÈGUE, JACQUES THOMELIN and JEAN BUTERNE as an organist of the Chapelle Royale at the French court.


• Also in 1678:
• JOHN BLOW becomes a doctor of music.
• Seventeen-year-old GIACOMO ANTONIO PERTI composes his first opera.
• The Teatro Grimani is constructed, the grandest opera house in Venice.

Classical Music

• ALBERTUS BRYNE
• 5 dance movements

Opera

• JOHANN THEILE
• Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch