Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 14 January:   JAKOB ADLUNG = German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, and music theorist = [died: 1762]
• 25 March:   JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE = German composer, singer and teacher of music = [died: 1783]
• 13 November:   JAN ZACH = Czech violinist, organist and composer = [died: 1773]
• 17 December:   CHARLES-LOUIS MION = French composer = [died: 1775]


• date unknown:
• RENÉ DE GALARD DE BÉARN, Marquis de Brassac = French soldier and amateur composer = [died: 1771]

Timeline of Events

• February: RICHARD LEVERIDGE, DANIEL PURCELL and JEREMIAH CLARKE collaborate on the music for an adaptation of FLETCHER's The Island Princess.
• 31 May: ANTONIO CALDARA appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.


• Undated:
• QUIRINUS BLANKENBURG is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Publications

• The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Theoretical Writings

• Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche by JOHANN GEORG AHLE, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
• Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by GIOVANNI BATTISTA BREVI

Classical Music

• CARLO AGOSTINO BADIA
• Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
• Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA BREVI
• La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
• ANTONIO CALDARA
• Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
• Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
• NICOLAS DE GRIGNY
• Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
• JOHANN PACHELBEL
• Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
• DANIEL PURCELL
• Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer

Opera

• ANTONIO CALDARA
• L'oracolo in sogno
• CARLO AGOSTINO BADIA
• Il Narciso
• HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ VON BIBER
• Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo (large cantata; his last)
• FRANCESCO GASPARINI
• Mirena e Floro
• JOHANN MATTHESON
• Die Plejades
• ANTONIO QUINTAVALLE, ANTONIO CALDARA, and ANTONIO POLLAROLO
• L'oracolo in sogno
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Gl'Inganni felici