Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 April:   PIETER HELLENDAAL = Anglo-Dutch organist, violinist and composer = [died: 1799]
• 7 April:   MATHIAS VAN DEN GHEYN = Flemish composer = [died: 1785]
• 7 June:   BARBARA CAMPANINI = Italian ballerina = [died: 1799]
• 13 August:   FRANCIS HUTCHESON = Irish songwriter, physician and lecturer in chemistry = [died: 1784]
• 9 December:   PETER PELHAM = English-born American organist, harpsichordist and composer = [died: 1805]


• date unknown:
• JOHN GARTH = English composer = [died: 1810]
• QUIRINO GASPARINI = Italian composer = [died: 1778]
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA LORENZI = Italian librettist = [died: 1807]

Timeline of Events

• 3 December: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH marries his second wife, Anna Magdalena.


• Undated:
• ANTONIO MARIA BONONCINI becomes maestro di cappella in his native city of Modena.
• GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN becomes director of music in Hamburg.

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Brandenburg Concertos, a collection of 3 concerti grossi and 3 ripieno concerti
• PIETRO LOCATELLI
• Concerti grossi (12), Op. 1: no 8 in F minor "Christmas Concerto"
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• St Cecilia Mass

Opera

• FILIPPO AMADEI, GIOVANNI BONONCINI & GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Muzio Scevola
• NICOLA PORPORA
• Eumene
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• La Griselda
• GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
• Der Geduldige Socrates
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• La Silvia'