Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 January:   ANTONIO MARIA MAZZONI = Italian composer = [died: 1785]
• 9 April:   GEORG MATTHIAS MONN = Austrian composer = [died: 1750]
• 18 June:   JOHANN STAMITZ = Czech violinist and composer = [died: 1757]
• 27 June:   GIACOMO DURAZZO = Italian operatic impresario = [died: 1794]


• date unknown;
• LEOPOLD AUGUST ABEL = German violinist and composer = [died: 1794]
• WILLIAM WILLIAMS PANTYCELYN = Welsh hymn writer = [died: 1791]

Timeline of Events

• 26 March: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH premieres his Weimarer Passion at the chapel of Friedrichstein Castle in Gotha
• 13 July: DOMENICO ZIPOLI arrives in Buenos Aires with 52 other Jesuit missionaries.
• 17 July: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL's Water Music is performed on the River Thames.
• August: HANDEL becomes house composer at Cannons.
• 26 December: Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan opens as an opera house.


• Undated:
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH is appointed Kapellmeister by Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
• Celebrated castrato GAETANO BERENSTADT visits London and plays the lead in a revival of HANDEL's Rinaldo.

Classical Music

• FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
• Pièces de clavecin, book 2
• GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL
• Water Music
• JOHN WEAVER
• The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet)

Opera

• ANTONIO MARIA BONONCINI
• La conquista del vello d'oro
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• Penelope la Casta and L'Incoronazione di Dario