Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 26 January:   WILLIAM HAYES = English composer, organist, singer and conductor = [died: 1777]
• 8 February:   VÁCLAV JAN KOPŘIVA = Bohemian composer and organist = [died: 1789]
• 11 February:   EGIDIO DUNI = Italian composer of opera comique = [died: 1775]
• 25 February:   FELIX BENDA = Czech/Bohemian composer = [died: 1768]
• 6 April:   GEORG REUTTER II = Austrian composer of church music = [died: 1772]
• 5 May:   JOHANN ADOLF SCHEIBE = German-Danish composer and critic = [died: 1776]
• 19 June:   JOHANN GOTTLIEB JANITSCH = German composer = [died: 1763]


• date unknown:
• LAVINIA FENTON = English actress, the original Polly Peachum = [died: 1760]
• WILLIAM TUCKEY = English/American composer = [died: 1781]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI returns to Naples from Venice.
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.
• ARCANGELO CORELLI returns to Rome and joins the household of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.

Published Popular Music

• Lyra Davidica (hymns)
• ISAAC WATTS = Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Classical Music

• GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL
• La Resurrezione (The Resurrection) (oratorio)

Opera

• ANDRÉ CAMPRA
• Hippodamie
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Daphne
• Florindo
• NICOLA PORPORA
• Aggripina