Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 5 January:   PIETRO FILIPPO SCARLATTI = Italian organist, choirmaster and composer = [died: 1750]
• 14 February:   GEORG FRIEDRICH KAUFFMANN = German composer = [died: 1735]
• 4 May:   JOHANN GEORG MOZART = German grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart = [died: 1736]
• 11 October:   CHRISTIAN VATER = German organ and harpsichord builder = [died: 1756]
• 16 October:   JAN DISMAS ZELENKA = Czech composer = [died: 1745]
• 24 December:   DOMENICO SARRO = Italian composer = [died: 1744]


• date unknown:
• BALTHASAR SIBERER = Austrian-born German organ teacher = [died: 1757]

Timeline of Events

• Victims of the plague in Vienna include ANNA CATHARINA, wife of JOHANN KASPAR KERLL. Kerll later commemorates the event in his Modulatio organica.

Classical Music

• JOHANN PACHELBEL's earliest datable works were composed for the 1679 Erbhuldigung at Erfurt. The works in question are two arias, So ist denn dies der Tag and So ist denn nur die Treu.
• Choral music is composed by the Valladolid chapel-master MIGUEL GOMEZ CAMARGO (1654-1690).

Opera

• JOHANN PAUL AGRICOLA
• Streit der Schönheit und der Tugend
• PETRONIO FRANCESCHINI
• Apollo in Tessaglia
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Gli Equivoci nell’amore
• MARC'ANTONIO ZIANI
• Alessandro Magno in Sidone