Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

18 January: ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ DE HITA = Spanish composer = [died: 1787]
28 January: JOHANN ERNST BACH II = German composer = [died: 1777]
30 June: JIŘÍ ANTONÍN BENDA = Czech composer = [died: 1795]
2 October: LEOPOLD WIDHALM = Austrian luthier = [died: 1776]
3 December: HRYHORII SKOVORODA = Russian/Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer = [died. 1794]

Timeline of Events

TOMASO ALBINONI becomes opera director to the Elector of Bavaria.
ANDRÉ CAMPRA becomes vice-maitre-de-chapelle of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles.
In a staged quarrel, FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI comes into conflict with JOHANN DAVID HEINICHEN and the singer SENESINO, ending with his leaping from a third storey window. He will walk with a limp for the rest of his life.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH is appointed Kapellmeister at Zerbst, where he will remain for the rest of his life.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH produces the first of his Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach.