Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 January:   FRANTIŠEK BRIXI = Czech composer = [died: 1771]
• 18 February:   JOHANN CHRISTIAN KITTEL = German organist and composer = [died: 1809]
• 31 March:   JOSEPH HAYDN = Austrian composer = [died: 1809]
• 17 May:   FRANCESCO PASQUALE RICCI = Italian composer and violinist = [died: 1817]
• 7 June:   GIUSEPPE DEMACHI = Italian composer = [died: 1791]
• 21 June:   JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH BACH = German composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach = [died: 1795]
• 1 September:   THOMAS ERSKINE, 6th Earl of Kellie = Scottish composer = [died: 1781]
• 6 October:   JOHN BROADWOOD = Scottish founder of firm of piano makers = [died: 1812]

Timeline of Events

• 6 January: The Teatro Filarmonico opens in Verona with a performance of VIVALDI's La Fida Ninfa
• 3 February: The Opéra-Comique opens in Paris
• 11 April: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH revives his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig
• April–May: First performances, in London, of GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL's Esther as an oratorio
• 7 December: The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
• Between 1732 and 1735: BACH gives the Leipzig première of GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN's Passion oratorio Seliges Erwägen des Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi (TWV 5:2)

Publications

• Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by JOHANN GOTTFRIED WALTHER

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Coffee Cantata
• MAURICE GREENE
• The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio)
• BENEDETTO MARCELLO
• Six Sonatas for Cello
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
• Lo frate 'nnamorato: Sinfonia in D major
• JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
• Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta
• GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL
• Acis and Galatea (pastoral opera)

Opera

• GIUSEPPE BONNO
• Nigella e Nise
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Ezio; Sosarme
• JOHN FREDERICK LAMPE
• Britannia
• MICHEL MONTÉCLAIR
• Jephté
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
• La Salustia