Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 January (baptised):   JOHANN CHRISTOPH ALTNICKOL = German organist, bass singer, and composer = [died: 1759]
• 4 January:   JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA = German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music = [died: 1774]
• 20 August:   BERNARD DE BURY = French court musician and composer = [died: 1785]
• 17 October:   MARIA TERESA AGNESI = Italian singer and composer = [died: 1795]
• 16 November:   CARLO ANTONIO CAMPIONI = Italian composer = [died: 1788]


• date unknown:
• HENRY HARGRAVE = English composer = [died: 1780]
• WILLIAM SAVAGE = English composer, organist, and singer = [died: 1789]


• probable:
• GIOACCHINO COCCHI = Italian composer = [died: 1804]
• BERNHARD JOACHIM HAGEN = German composer, lutenist and violinist = [died: 1787]
• JOAN BAPTISTA PLA = Spanish oboist and composer = [died: 1773]
• JOHANN GEORG SCHÜRER = German composer = [died: 1786]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• Royal Academy of Music (1719) opens in London.
• GIOVANNI BONONCINI arrives in London, his home until 1732, and becomes one of HANDEL's most notable rivals.
• DOMENICO SCARLATTI arrives in Lisbon.

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Prelude for Lute in C minor
• JAN JOSEF IGNÁC BRENTNER
• Horae Pomeridianae
• MARIN MARAIS
• Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Messa di Santa Cecilia

Opera

• ANTONIO MARIA BONONCINI
• Nino
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Radamisto
• JOHANN DAVID HEINICHEN
• Flavio Crispo
• LEONARDO LEO
• Caio Gracco
• GIOVANNI PORTA
• Numitore
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• La verità in cimento