Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 6 April:   LOUIS DE CAHUSAC = French playwright and librettist = [died: 1759]
• 24 April:   GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI = Italian violinist, harpsichordist and composer = [died: 1784]
• 18 October:   BALDASSARE GALUPPI = Italian composer best known for his operas = [died: 1785]
• 7 November:   CARLO CECERE = Italian composer = [died: 1761]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• LOUIS-ANTOINE DORNEL succeeds FRANÇOIS D'AGINCOURT as organist at the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-en-la-Cité.
• DAVID TECCHLER makes the cello now on loan to DENIS BROTT from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.

Published Popular Music

• THOMAS D'URFEY = Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 4 (collection of songs)

Classical Music

• JOHN GOSTLING
• the "Gostling manuscript", a collection of sixty-four anthems: seventeen by HENRY PURCELL, twenty-three by JOHN BLOW, three by MATTHEW LOCKE, four by PELHAM HUMFREY, four by WILLIAM TURNER, and one by WILLIAM CHILD, one by HENRY ALDRICH, three by THOMAS TUDWAY, four by JEREMIAH CLARKE, and a few others.
• JEAN-ADAM GUILAIN
• Pièces d'orgue pour le Magnificat sur les huit tons différents de l'église
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin

Opera

• TOUSSAINT BERTIN DE LA DOUÉ
• Cassandre
• FRANCESCO MANCINI
• Alessandro il Grande in Sidone
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Il Gran Tamerlano