Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 February:   JOHANN ADAM BIRKENSTOCK = German violinist and composer = [died: 1733]
• 7 June:   GAETANO BERENSTADT = Italian castrato singer = [died: 1734]
• 12 October:   SYLVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS = German lutenist and composer = [died: 1750]
• 23 November:   JEAN BAPTISTE SENAILLÉ = French violinist and composer = [died: 1730]
• 5 December:   FRANCESCO GEMINIANI = Italian composer = [died: 1762]
• 26 December:   JOHANN GEORG PISENDEL = German composer = [died: 1755]


• date unknown:
• CHARLES KING = English musician and composer = [died: 1748]

Timeline of Events

• 30 January: Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall inspires ANDRÉ RAISON to write his offertory, subtitled "Vive le Roy de Parisiens" ("Long live the King of Parisians").


• Also in 1687:
• During a performance of his own Te Deum, LULLY injures his foot with the point of his cane; this results in death from gangrene a few weeks later.
• JEAN-NICOLAS FRANCINE, LULLY's son-in-law, becomes director of the Paris Opera.

Classical Music

• JOHN BLOW
• Ode for New Year's Day
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA DEGLI ANTONI
• Ricercate, Op. 1, one of the earliest examples of music for solo cello
• Versetti per tutti li tuoni, tanto naturali, Op. 2, one of the largest Italian publications of liturgical organ versets of the era

Opera

• ANTONIO DRAGHI
• La vendetta dell'onestà
• GIUSEPPE FABRINI
• Lodovico
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY, PASCAL COLLASSE
• Achille et Polyxène
• BERNARDO SABADINI
• Didio Giuliano