6 January:RYNOLDUS POPMA VAN OEVERING = Dutch composer = [died: c. 1782]
13 January:GUNNILA GRUBB = Swedish composer = [died: 1729]
8 April:GIUSEPPE TARTINI = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1770]
28 May:GEMINIANO GIACOMELLI Italian opera composer = [died: 1740]
2 November:UNICO WILHELM VAN WASSENAER = Dutch composer = [died: 1766]
Timeline of Events
7 July:GIUSEPPE FELICE TOSI becomes second organist at San Petronio, Bologna.
Undated:
Seven-year-old GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL visits the court of Saxony at Weissenfels. Duke Johann Adolf is so impressed at his playing of the organ that he advises his father to let him study music under FRIEDRICH WILHELM ZACHAU.
Publications
JOHN LENTON & THOMAS TOLLETT = A Consort of Musick of Three Parts
Classical Music
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER
Requiem Mass
JOHANN KUHNAU
Neuer Clavier-Übung, anderer Theil
HENRY PURCELL
Ode to St. Cecilia
Opera
CATALDO AMODEI
La sirena consolata (lost)
CARLO AGOSTINO BADIA
La ninfa Apollo
ANTONIO PERTI
Furio Camillo
HENRY PURCELL
The Fairy Queen (masque)
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Mark Chard BSc
Page created: 29th December 2014
Last edited: 20th May 2023