Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

1 January: GIOVANNI BATTISTA MANCINI = Italian soprano castrato, voice teacher = [died: 1800]
February: SUSANNAH MARIA CIBBER = English singer and actress, sister of Thomas Arne = [died: 1766]
2 February: GOTTFRIED AUGUST HOMILIUS = German composer, cantor and organist = [died: 1785]
28 February: GIOACCHINO CONTI = Italian soprano castrato opera singer = [died: 1761]
8 March: CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH = German musician and composer = [died: 1788]
16 April: PEDRO ANTÓNIO AVONDANO = Portuguese composer = [died: 1782]
6 May: ANTON RAAFF = German tenor = [died: 1797]
2 July: CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK = German composer = [died: 1787]
10 September: NICCOLÒ JOMMELLI Italian composer = [died: 1774]
23 December: RANIERI DE' CALZABIGI = Italian poet and librettist collaborating with Gluck = [died: 1795]

ANTONIO BESOZZI = Italian oboist and composer = [died: 1781]
ABADE ANTÓNIO DA COSTA = Portuguese composer = [died: 1780]
JOHAN FOLTMAR = Danish composer = [died: 1794]
CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB HUBERT = German builder of keyboard instruments = [died: 1793]
EDMUND PASCHA = Slovak organist and composer = [died: 1772]

Timeline of Events

2 March: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.

A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
MICHEL RICHARD DELALANDE assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
MELCHIOR HOFFMANN, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
DOMENICO SCARLATTI becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by THOMAS BRATTLE, is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.
JOHN TUFTS publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.

The Little Organ Book
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)