Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

9 November: DOMENICO LORENZO PONZIANI = Italian polymath = [died: 1796]
14 November: LEOPOLD MOZART = German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist = [died: 1787]

Timeline of Events

February: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL leaves his employment at Cannons (the seat of the Duke of Chandos) to become musical director of the Royal Academy of Music (1719). GIOVANNI BONONCINI is brought to London to compose for the Academy.
20 August: FRANCESCO VERACINI performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha of Austria.
29 November: DOMENICO SCARLATTI arrives in Lisbon to take up his post as kapellmeister to João V of Portugal.

BERNHARD CHRISTOPH BREITKOPF founds the firm of Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, the world's oldest music publisher.
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI arrives in Rome.
JOHANN MATTHESON becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
GIUSEPPE PITONI becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome.
ANTONIO STRADIVARIUS makes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
In Japan, the Kumiodori dance form is created by CHOKUN TAMAGUSUKU.
JEAN-BAPTISTE MORIN becomes "maître de musique" to Louise-Adélaïde, daughter of the Duke of Orléans.