Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 28 January:   GREGOR WERNER = Austrian composer = [died: 1766]
• 8 August:   LAURENT BELISSEN = French composer = [died: 1762]
• 28 October:   ŠIMON BRIXI = Czech composer = [died: 1735]


• date unknown:
• LODOVICO FILIPPO LAURENTI = Italian composer = [died: 1757]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN is sent to school in Zellerfeld, in the hope that it will put him off a musical career.
• JOHN ECCLES becomes resident composer at Drury Lane theatre.

Opera

• MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
• Médée
• HENRI DESMARETS
• Didon