Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 14 March:   GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN = German composer = [died: 1767]
• 4 September:   CARL HEINRICH BIBER = Austrian composer = [died: 1749]
• 28 September:   JOHANN MATTHESON = German composer = [died: 1764]
• 11 December:   EMANUELE D'ASTORGA = Italian composer = [died: 1736]

Timeline of Events

• ARCANGELO CORELLI is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
• GIOVANNI LEGRENZI becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
• ANTONIO STRADIVARI makes the Fleming violin.

Publications

• ANDREAS WERCKMEISTER = Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)

Classical Music

• ARCANGELO CORELLI
• Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas

Opera

• DOMENICO FRESCHI
• Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
• Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)