Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 17 January:   FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC = French composer = [died: 1829]
• 19 April:   KARL VON ORDOÑEZ = Austrian composer = [died: 1786]
• 28 June:   JEAN-JACQUES BEAUVARLET-CHARPENTIER = French organist and composer = [died: 1794]
• 18 December:   JEAN-BAPTISTE REY = French conductor and composer = [died: 1810]


• date unknown:
• BENJAMIN COOKE = English organist, composer and teacher = [died: 1793]

Timeline of Events

• 29 March: LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon.
• 23 April: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH gives the Leipzig première of GOTTFRIED HEINRICH STÖLZEL's Passion Oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.


• Undated:
• The subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers.
• Approximate date of the WILLIAM DIXON manuscript of music for the Border pipes.

Classical Music

• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI
• Litaniae atque antlphonae finales B. V. Mariae

Opera

• GIOVANNI BATTISTA COSTANZI
• La Flora
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
• La Serva Padrona