Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 20 January:   JOSEPH-HECTOR FIOCCO = Belgian composer and violinist = [died: 1741]
• 29 January:   CARLMANN KOLB = German priest, organist and composer = [died: 1765]
• 27 October:   JOHANN GOTTLIEB GRAUN = German composer and violinist = [died: 1771]


• date unknown:
• MATTHEW DUBOURG = Irish violinist, conductor, and composer = [died: 1767]
• JOHN FREDERICK LAMPE = German musician = [died: 1751]
• JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR the younger = French composer = [died: 1777]
• JOHN TRAVERS = English organist and composer = [died: 1758]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH gets a job as a violinist and lackey at the lesser court in Weimar.
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH accepts post of Organist at the New Church in Arnstadt August 1703.
• ANTONIO VIVALDI starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL gives up his legal studies at the University of Halle for a music course at Hamburg.
• JAKOB GREBER makes his London debut as a theatre composer.
• NICOLAS BERNIER publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.

Classical Music

• GASPARD CORRETTE
• Organ mass
• FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
• Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)

Opera

• ANTONIO CALDARA
• Farnace
• Gli equivoci del sembiante
• FRANCESCO GASPARINI
• Amor della patria
• ANTONIO QUINTAVALLE
• Il trionfo d'amore
• DOMENICO SCARLATTI
• Il Giustino

Musical Theatre

• AS YOU FIND IT
• written by WILLIAM CORBETT