Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

1 January: JOHANN HEINRICH HARTMANN BÄTZ = German-Dutch organ builder = [died: 1770]
24 January: DOM BÉDOS DE CELLES = French Benedictine monk and pipe organ builder = [died: 1779]
16 February (baptised): CHARLES AVISON = English composer and organist = [died: 1770]
27 March: WILLIAM FLACKTON = English viola player and composer = [died: 1798]
14 April: CHARLES COLLÉ = French songwriter and dramatist = [died: 1783]
25 June: FRANCESCO ARAJA = Italian composer = [died: 1762–1770]
8 August: HERMANN ANTON GELINEK = German monk and musician = [died: 1779]
25 October: GEORG GEBEL (the younger) = German composer = [died: 1753]
22 November: FRANZ BENDA = Bohemian violinist and composer = [died: 1786]
1 December: FRANTIŠEK XAVER RICHTER = Czech/Austrian composer = [died: 1789]

RICHARD CHARKE = English violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright = [died: c. 1738]

Timeline of Events

JOHANN GEORG PISENDEL leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH en route.
ANTONIO STRADIVARI makes the Viotti Stradivarius.