Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 January:   CHRISTOPH LUDWIG FEHRE = German organist and composer [died: 1772]
• 25 September:   NICOLA CONFORTO = Italian composer = [died: 1793]
• 21 November:   FRIEDRICH WILHELM MARPURG = German music critic and composer [died: 1795]


• date unknown:
• WENZEL RAIMUND BIRCK = Austrian composer = [died: 1763]
• MADEMOISELLE DUVAL = French anonymous composer = [died: c.1775]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• ANTONIO VIVALDI tours Italy.
• HANDEL succeeds JOHANN CHRISTOPH PEPUSCH as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
• JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ settles in Dresden.
• 14-year-old CARLOS SEIXAS succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.

Classical Music

• WILLIAM BABELL
• The Harpsichord Master Improved
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Esther (oratorio)
• FRANCESCO MANFREDINI
• Concerti grossi, Op. 3: no 12 in C major "Christmas Concerto"

Opera

• TOUSSAINT BERTIN DE LA DOUÉ
• Le Jugement de Paris
• ANTONIO MARIA BONONCINI
• Astianatte and Griselda
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Acis and Galatea
• NICOLA PORPORA
• Berenice regina d'Egitto
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Il trionfo dell'onore
• Telemaco
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• Scanderbeg