Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 24 January:   FARINELLI = Italian celebrated castrato = [died: 1782]
• 20 February:   NICOLAS CHÉDEVILLE = French composer, musette player and maker = [died: 1782]
• 28 September:   JOHANN PETER KELLNER = German organist and composer = [died: 1772]
• 5 November:   LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN = French composer and violinist = [died: 1770]
• 29 November:   MICHAEL CHRISTIAN FESTING = English violinist and composer = [died: 1752]


• date unknown:
• LOUIS ARCHIMBAUD = French organist and composer = [died: 1789]
• NICOLA SABATINO = Italian composer = [died: 1796]


• probable:
• JOSEPH-NICOLAS-PANCRACE ROYER = French composer and harpsichordist = [died: 1755]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH sets off for Lübeck to hear DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE perform.
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI notes that he has written 88 operas in the past 23 years.
• WILLIAM CROFT marries MARY GEORGE.
• JEAN-FÉRY REBEL joins "Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi".
• The earliest fandango melody is recorded in the anonymous Libro de diferentes cifras de guitarra.

Classical Music

• FRIEDRICH NICOLAUS BRAUNS
• St Mark Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)

Opera

• ANTONIO CALDARA
• L'Arminia
• THOMAS CLAYTON, NICOLA HAYM, & CHARLES DIEUPART
• Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus, produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in London
• FRANCESCO GASPARINI
• Statira
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Almira, premièred in Hamburg