Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 12 January:   GAETANO LATILLA = Italian opera composer = [died: 1788]
• 29 January:   GIUSEPPE BONNO = Austrian composer of Italian origin = [died: 1788]
• 22 April:   PAUL II ANTON, PRINCE ESTERHÁZY = Hungarian-born Austrian, patron of music = [died: 1762]
• 23 June:   GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUADAGNINI = Italian luthier = [died: 1786]
• 26 July:   LORENZ CHRISTOPH MIZLER = German writer on music = [died: 1778]
• 11 September:   WILLIAM BOYCE = English-born composer = [died: 1779]
• 18 September:   IGNAZ HOLZBAUER = German composer = [died: 1783]
• 25 December:   JEAN-JOSEPH DE MONDONVILLE = French violinist and composer = [died: 1772]


• date unknown:
• DAVIDE PEREZ = Italian opera composer = [died: 1778]
• JOHN FRANCIS WADE = English hymnist = [died: 1786]


• probable:
• PANNA CINKA = Hungarian violinist = [died: 1772]

Timeline of Events

• 3 April: Possible premiere of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).


• Undated:
• Invention of the tuning fork by JOHN SHORE.
• The King's Theatre premieres the first of at least 25 operas by GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL that will appear by the year 1739. JOHN WALSH becomes HANDEL's regular printer, beginning with the publication of Rinaldo

Classical Music

• FRANCESCO MANFREDINI
• Concerto for 2 Trumpets in D Major
• MARIN MARAIS
• Pièces de Viole
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• L'Estro armonico (Op. 3), published in Amsterdam

Opera

• REINHARD KEISER
• Croesus
• JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
• Clomire
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Rinaldo
• NICOLA PORPORA
• Flavio Anicio Olibrio