Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

7 January: GIOVANNI BATTISTA LOCATELLI = Italian opera director = [died: 1785]
13 February: DOMÈNECH TERRADELLAS = Spanish composer = [died: 1751]
March: GIAMMARIA ORTES = Italian-Venetian composer and polymath = [died: 1790]
12 March: JOHANN ADOLPH HASS = German clavichord and harpsichord maker = [died: 1771]
7 April: NICOLA SALA = Italian composer and music theorist = [died: 1801]
13 April: PIERRE JÉLYOTTE = French operatic tenor = [died: 1797]
3 October: ANTOINE DAUVERGNE = French violinist and composer = [died: 1797]
13 October: JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS = German composer = [died: 1780]
24 October: MARIE FEL = French opera singer = [died: 1794]
10 December: JOHANN NICOLAUS MEMPEL = German musician = [died: 1747]

JOHAN HENRIK FREITHOFF = Norwegian-Danish violinist and composer = [died: 1767]
JOHANNES ERASMUS IVERSEN = Danish composer = [died: 1755]

Timeline of Events

Foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse by King Louis XIV of France.
DANIEL PURCELL becomes organist at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.
FRANCESCO BARTOLOMEO CONTI becomes court composer to the Habsburgs in Vienna.
GIUSEPPE TARTINI claims to have had a dream in which he allows the devil to play his violin.
ANTONIO STRADIVARI makes the Gibson Stradivarius.