Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• January:
• DAVID OWEN = Welsh harpist = [died: 1741]
• CECILIA YOUNG = English soprano, wife of Thomas Arne = [died: 1789]
• 17 January:   JOHN STANLEY = English composer and organist = [died: 1786]
• 24 January:   FREDERICK II of Prussia = German enthusiastic amateur musician and composer = [died: 1786]
• 26 January:   GIACOMO PUCCINI = Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty = [died: 1781]
• 28 June:   JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU = Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer = [died: 1778]
• July:   JOHN HEBDEN = English musician and composer = [died: 1765]


• date unknown:
• MARIMUTTHU PILLAI = Indian Carnatic music composer = [died: 1787]
• JOHN CHRISTOPHER SMITH = English composer = [died: 1795]
• SOPHIA SCHRÖDER = Swedish vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet = [died: 1750]


• probable:
• KANE O'HARA = Irish playwright and musician = [died: 1782]

Timeline of Events

• 18 March: GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN arrives in Frankfurt to take up his new post as city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.
• 25 March: Approximate date of the première of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
• September: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL re-locates to London, with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.


• Undated:
• JOHANN GEORG PISENDEL joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

Classical Music

• FRANCESCO ANTONIO BONPORTI
• Opus X for violin
• BARTHOLD HEINRICH BROCKES
• Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus
• HENRY CAREY
• Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by JOSEPH ADDISON
• BENEDETTO MARCELLO
• Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo
• FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI
• Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)

Opera

• ANDRÉ CAMPRA
• Idomenée
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Il Pastor Fido
• JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) and JOHANN ERNST GALLIARD (died: 1747)
• Calypso and Telemachus (opera)
• ANTONIO LOTTI
• Porsenna