Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 12 January:   JACQUES DUPHLY = French harpsichordist and composer = [died: 1789]
• 29 January:   GEORG CHRISTOPH WAGENSEIL = Austrian composer = [died: 1777]
• 11 April:   JOHN ALCOCK = English composer = [died: 1806]
• 19 April:   JAMES NARES = English composer = [died: 1783]
• 23 April:   JOHANN FRIEDRICH DOLES = German composer = [died: 1797]
• 28 April:   FRANZ SPARRY = Austrian composer = [died: 1767]
• 11 May:
• JOHANN GOTTFRIED BERNHARD BACH = German organist and son of Johann Sebastian Bach = [died: 1739]
• IGNAZIO FIORILLO = Italian composer = [died: 1787]
• 16 November:   GIROLAMO ABOS = Maltese-Italian composer = [died: 1760]
• December:   ISABELLA LAMPE = English soprano and wife of John Frederick Lampe = [died: 1795]
• 12 December:   GENNARO MANNA = Italian composer = [died: 1779]


• date unknown:
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA CASALI = Italian musician = [died: 1792]
• FRANCESCO ZOPPIS = Italian composer = [died: after 1781]

Timeline of Events

• September: Presumed staging of first Three Choirs Festival in England.


• Undated:
• Com&eadie; en vaudeville is staged for the first time in Paris.
• FRANCESCO GEMINIANI performs at the court of King George I of Great Britain, accompanied by Handel.

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Englische Suiten
• Cantata 31 Der Himmel lacht die Erde jubilert
• FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
• Concerts royaux
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Stabat Mater

Opera

• JOHANN AUGUSTIN KOBELIUS
• Der unschuldig verdammte Heinrich, Fürst von Wallis
• GIUSEPPE MARIA ORLANDINI
• Bacocco e Serpilla
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Il Tigrane
• DOMENICO SCARLATTI
• La Dirindina
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• Nerone Fatto Cesare