Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 25 February:   ARMAND-LOUIS COUPERIN = French organist, harpsichordist and composer = [died: 1789]
• 9 March:   JOHANN GOTTLIEB PRELLER = German cantor and composer = [died: 1786]
• 14 March:   JOHANN GOTTLIEB GOLDBERG = German harpsichordist, organist and composer = [died: 1756]
• 30 March:   TOMMASO TRAETTA = Italian composer = [died: 1779]
• 5 April:   PASQUALE ANFOSSI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1797]
• 29 April:   JEAN-GEORGES NOVERRE = French, a founder of modern ballet = [died: 1810]
• 15 June:   MARIE FAVART = French singer, dancer and actress = [died: 1772]


• date unknown:
• ROSA SCARLATTI = Italian opera singer = [died: 1775]

Timeline of Events

• 11 April: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH gives the première of his St Matthew Passion BWV 244b (BC D 3a) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig


• Undated:
• FARINELLI performs at Bologna, where he meets his mentor, ANTONIO BERNACCHI.
• The Davidov-Morrini, ex General Dupont and Holroyd violins are made by ANTONIO STRADIVARI.
• JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE arrives in Venice.
• LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN is appointed organist at St Paul's in Paris.
• AGOSTINO STEFFANI visits Italy for the last time, and meets Handel at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome.
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL is commissioned to write four anthems for the coronation ceremony of King George II of Great Britain.

Classical Music

• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Zadok the Priest (one of the four Coronation Anthems he wrote in 1727)
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• La Cetra (The lyre) (Op. 9), 2 violin concertos and 1 for 2 violins, published in Amsterdam

Opera

• ANTONIO BIONI
• Attalo ed Arsinoe
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Admeto
• Riccardo Primo
• LEONARDO LEO
• Il Cid
• BENEDETTO MARCELLO
• Arianna
• NICOLA PORPORA
• Ezio
• ANTONIO VIVALDI
• Farnace
• Orlando furioso