Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 14 January:   CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HENRICI {PICANDER} = German librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach = [died: 1764]
• 13 March:   MICHEL BLAVET = French flautist = [died: 1768]
• 2 April:   FRANCESCA CUZZONI = Italian opera singer = [died: 1770]


• probable:
• SEBASTIAN BODINUS = German composer = [died: 1759]
• JEAN-BAPTISTE MASSE = French cellist and composer = [died: c.1757]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• JOHN ECCLES is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
• WILLIAM CROFT returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
• WILLIAM CORBETT becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
• TOMASO ALBINONI is employed as a violinist by Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
• An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.

Publications

• JACQUES BOYVIN = Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement

Classical Music

• TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI:
• Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
• JOHN BLOW:
• Ode for New Year's Day
• ANTONIO CALDARA:
• Maddalena ai piedi di Christo
• JOHN BLOW, JEREMIAH CLARKE, FRANCIS PIGGOTT, JOHN BARRETT and WILLIAM CROFT:
• Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet
• JEREMIAH CLARKE:
• Prince of Denmark's March (approximate date)
• ARCANGELO CORELLI:
• XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
• GODFREY KELLER:
• The Royal Trumpett-Suite
• JOHANN KUHNAU:
• Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien (Biblical sonatas), published in Leipzig

Opera

• CARLO AGOSTINO BADIA
• La costanza d'Ulisse
• HENRY PURCELL
• Dido and Aeneas
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Eracles