Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 31 July (or 1 August):   BENEDETTO MARCELLO Italian composer = [died: 1739]
• 17 August:   NICOLA PORPORA = Italian composer = [died: 1768]
• September:   CHARLES YOUNG = English organist and composer = [died: 1758]
• 31 October:   SENESINO = Italian castrato singer = [died: 1758]
• 15 December:   JEAN-JOSEPH FIOCCO = Belgian composer = [died: 1746]
• 25 December:   GIOVANNI BATTISTA SOMIS = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1763]


• date unknown:
• FRANÇOIS CAMPION = French guitarist and composer = [died: 1747]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI establishes the "Italian overture" form of opera.

Classical Music

• JOHANN KASPAR KERLL
• Modulatio organica
• HENRY PURCELL
• Ye Tuneful Muses
• VASILY TITOV
• Psaltïr' rifmovannaya (Псалтырь рифмованная or Псалтырь римфотворная), vocal polyphonic setting of the Russian psalter
• GIUSEPPE TORELLI
• 10 Sonate a 3, with Basso Continuo, op. 1

Opera

• FRANCESCO BALLAROTI
• Enea in Italia
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
• Armide
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Olimpia vendicata