Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 23 February:   CRISTIANO GIUSEPPE LIDARTI = Austrian composer = [died: c. 1793]
• 21 April:   ANTONIN KAMMEL = Czech composer = [died: 1788]
• 29 May:   WILLIAM JACKSON = English organist and composer = [died: 1803]
• 14 June:   ANTONIO SACCHINI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1786]
• 14 December:   CAPEL BOND = English organist and composer = [died: 1790]


• date unknown:
• PASQUALE ERRICHELLI = Italian organist and composer = [died: 1785]
• DOMENICO GALLO = Italian violinist and composer = [died: c. 1768]

Timeline of Events

• 7 April: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH premieres his copy of the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.


• Undated:
• The Beggar's Opera by JOHN GAY is so popular that a deck of playing cards based on the characters is printed.
• ANTONIO VIVALDI and his family arrive in Prague.
• ANDRÉ CAMPRA becomes Inspector General of the Paris Opera.

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
• ANTONIO CALDARA
• La Passione di Gesù Cristo
• FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
• Pièces de clavecin, book 4
• CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
• Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld (Passion cantata)
• Kommt her und schauet (Passion oratorio)
• BENEDETTO MARCELLO
• Requiem "In the Venetian Manner"

Opera

• RICCARDO BROSCHI
• Idaspe
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Ormisda
• LEONARDO VINCI
• Artaserse