Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 July:   LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN = French composer = [died: 1772]
• 5 August:   LEONARDO LEO = Italian composer = [died: 1744
• 5 September:   FRANTIŠEK VÁCLAV MÍČA = Czech conductor and composer = [died: 1744]


• date unknown:
• PIERRE-CLAUDE FOUCQUET = French organist and harpsichordist = [died: 1772]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• Musician JOHANNES KELPIUS and his group of "mystics" arrive at the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bringing instruments that became an integral part of their church life.
• The semi-opera The Rape of Europa by Jupiter, with music by JOHN ECCLES and text by PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX, is staged in London.

Published Popular Music

• It is hypothesised that Pachelbel's Canon was composed at this time for one of his students, JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH, for his wedding day.

Classical Music

• TOMASO ALBINONI
• 12 Sonata a tre (Op. 1)
• DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
• VII suonate, op. 1 (date of publication unknown, but the print is listed in book fair catalogues of 1694)
• ARCANGELO CORELLI
• Op. 4, 12 trio sonatas
• HENRY PURCELL
• Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary for Mary II of England
• JOHANN PAUL VON WESTHOFF
• Sonate a Violino solo con basso continuo

Opera

• TOMASO ALBINONI
• Zenobia, Regina de' Palmireni
• JOHN ECCLES
• Macbeth
• FRANCESCO GASPARINI
• Il Roderico
• JOHANN PHILIPP KRIEGER
• Hercules unter denen Amazonen
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Pirro e Demetrio, premièred in Naples