Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 27 February:   PIETRO GNOCCHI = Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer = [died: 1775]
• 30 September:   JACQUES AUBERT = French composer and violinist = [died: 1753]
• 3 November:   JOHANN JOSEPH IGNAZ BRENTNER = Czech composer = [died: 1742]
• 23 December:   JOSEPH BODIN DE BOISMORTIER = French composer = [died: 1755]


• date unknown:
• EDWARD PURCELL = English organist and co-founder of the Royal Society of Musicians = [died: 1740]

Timeline of Events

• 1 September: JOHANN JOSEPH VILSMAYR begins work at the Hofkapelle in Salzburg.


• Undated:
• NICOLAUS BRUHNS is appointed town organist at Husum.

Published Popular Music

• HENRY PURCELL = Musick's Handmaid

Classical Music

• JEAN-HENRI D'ANGLEBERT
• Pièces de clavecin
• ARCANGELO CORELLI
• Op. 3, 12 trio sonatas
• JOHANN CASPAR KERLL
• Missae sex, cum instrumentis concertantibus, a collection of concertato masses
• JOHANN KUHNAU
• Neuer Clavier-Übung, erster Theil
• MICHEL LAMBERT
• Airs de cour
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA VITALI
• Artificii musicali (Op. 13)

Opera

• ANTONIO CALDARA
• L'Argene
• HENRY PURCELL
• Dido and Aeneas (libretto by NAHUM TATE, first performed in London)
• POUL CHRISTIAN SCHINDLER
• Der vereinigte Götterstreit