Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 February:   FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1768]
• 11 June:   GIOVANNI ANTONIO GIAY = Italian composer = [died: 1764]
• 7 July:   JOHANN TOBIAS KREBS = German organist and composer = [died: 1762]
• 15 September:   IGNAZIO PROTA = Italian composer and music teacher = [died: 1748]
• 22 November:   FRANÇOIS COLIN DE BLAMONT = French composer = [died: 1760]
• 24 November:   CHARLES THEODORE PACHELBEL = German organist, harpsichordist and composer = [died: 1750]


• probable:
• GIUSEPPE ANTONIO BRESCIANELLO = Italian composer and violinist = [died: 1758]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• Invention of the clarinet.
• GEORG MUFFAT becomes kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.

Published Popular Music

• PACHELBEL's Canon is hypothesised to have been composed in this era

Theoretical Writings

• Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by JOHANN GEORG AHLE, an enlarged and revised version of JOHANN RUDOLF AHLE's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introduction. A second edition was published in 1704.

Classical Music

• HENRY PURCELL
• music for The Tempest

Opera

• GIUSEPPE BONIVENTI
• Il gran Macedone
• MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
• Le Jugement de Paris
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• La Rosaura