Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• January:   ANTHONY YOUNG = English organist and composer = [died: 1747]
• 13 January:   CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER = German harpsichordist composer = [died: 1760]
• 14 January:   GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN = German constructor of keyboard instruments = [died: 1753]
• 17 April:   JOHANN DAVID HEINICHEN = German composer and music theorist = [died: 1729]
• 25 September:   JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU = French composer = [died: 1764]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• HENRY PURCELL becomes organ maker and keeper of the king’s instruments at the Chapel Royal.

Classical Music

• MICHEL RICHARD DELALANDE
• De profundis, a grand motet
• first performed in September, in the Saint Denis Basilica (burial site of French monarchs), for the repose of the soul of Queen Marie-Therèse
• HENRY PURCELL
• first set of sonatas for two violins, bass, and basso continuo
• DANIEL SPEER
• Türkischer Vagant

Opera

• JOHN BLOW
• Venus and Adonis
• DOMENICO GABRIELLI
• Il Gige in Lidia
• LEOPOLD I, Holy Roman Emperor
• Der thöreichte Schaffer
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
• Phaëton
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Pompeo