Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 20 April:   JOHANN FRIEDRICH KLÖFFLER = German conductor, composer = [died: 1790]
• 24 July:   JOHN NEWTON = British clergyman and songwriter ("Amazing Grace") = [died: 1807]
• 15 August:   FERDINANDO BERTONI = Italian composer and organist = [died: 1813]
• 8 November:   JOHANN GEORGE TROMLITZ = German flautist = [died: 1805]
• 25 December:   ESTEBAN SALAS Y CASTRO = Cuban composer = [died: 1803]


• date unknown:
• ANTONIO LOLLI = Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1802]

Timeline of Events

• 30 March: Repeat performance of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH's St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2b [including BWV 245a, b, and c]) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig (using parts from his Weimarer Passion).


• Undated:
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI goes to Naples to study under GAETANO GRECO. DOMENICO SCARLATTI is also in Naples at this time.
• Nineteen-year-old GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI is appointed chapel-master of the Franciscan church at Bologna.

Publications

• JOHANN FUX = Gradus ad Parnassum

Classical Music

• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Trio Sonata in D minor
• ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
• Sonatas for Flute and Strings: no 1 in D major
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• Twelve Concerti, Op 8

Opera

• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Rodelinda
• GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
• Pimpinone