Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 10 April:   MICHEL CORRETTE = French organist and composer = [died: 1795]
• 2 May:   JEAN-BAPTISTE BARRIÈRE = French cellist and composer = [died: 1747]
• 27 August:   ZANETTA FARUSSI = Italian actress, opera singer and composer = [died: 1776]
• 18 December:   CHARLES WESLEY = English hymn-writer = [died: 1788]


• date unknown:
• EDWARD HARWOOD (of Darwen) = English composer of hymns, anthems and songs = [died: 1787]
• PIETRO DOMENICO PARADISI = Italian composer and harpsichordist = [died: 1791]
• HERMAN FRIEDRICH VOLTMAR = German-born Danish composer = [died: 1782]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL meets DOMENICO SCARLATTI in Venice.
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH marries his cousin, Maria Barbara.
• ANTONIO CALDARA leaves his post in Mantua to become maestro di cappella to Prince Ruspoli in Rome.
• WILLIAM CROFT becomes "Master of the Children" at the Chapel Royal, in succession to Clarke.
• DOMENICO ZIPOLI becomes a pupil of organist GIOVANI MARIA CASINI in Florence.

Published Popular Music

• Hymns and Spiritual Songs by ISAAC WATTS (including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross")

Classical Music

• TOMASO ALBINONI
• Op. 5, a collection of concerti
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 (cantata)
• Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 (cantata)
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Cain, overo Il primo omicidio (oratorio)

Opera

• THOMAS CLAYTON
• Rosamond, book by JOSEPH ADDISON, produced in London
• NICOLA FAGO
• Radamisto
• HANDEL
• Rodrigo
• JOHANN CHRISTOPH PEPUSCH
• Thomyris, Queen of Scythia
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Mitridate Eupatore
• AGOSTINO STEFFANI
• Arminio