Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 6 January:   GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI = Italian oboist and composer = [died: 1750]
• 26 August:   MARIE-ANNE-CATHERINE QUINAULT = French singer and composer = [died: 1791]
• 3 September:   PIETRO LOCATELLI = Italian composer = [died: 1764]

Timeline of Events

• 5 March: The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by HENRY PURCELL.


• Undated:
• Music publisher HENRY PLAYFORD relocates his London shop to Temple Change.
• JOHN WALSH and JOHN HARE establish themselves as music printers at the "Golden Harp and Hautboy" in Catherine Street, off the Strand in London.
• The orphaned JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH is taken in by his cousin JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH.
• JOHANN PACHELBEL settles in Nuremberg, where he will remain for the rest of his life.

Published Popular Music

• The Compleat Flute-Master

Theoretical Writings

• Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Frühlings-Gespräche by JOHANN GEORG AHLE, on consonance and dissonance. First part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

Classical Music

• JOHANN PACHELBEL
• Musikalische Ergötzung, vol. 2

Opera

• TOMASO ALBINONI
• Il prodigio dell'innocenza
• HENRY PURCELL
• The Indian Queen