Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 21 January:   JOHANN GOTTFRIED ECKARD = German pianist and composer = [died: 1809]
• 25 February:   ERNST WILHELM WOLF = German composer = [died: 1792]
• 28 February:   ALEXANDRE-THÉOPHILE VANDERMONDE = French musician, mathematician and chemist = [died: 1796]
• 13 May:   HORACE COIGNET = French composer = [died: 1821]
• 6 June:   ANTON SCHWEITZER = German opera composer = [died: 1787]
• 5 September:   JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH = German composer = [died: 1782]


• date unknown:
• CHARLOTTE BRENT = English operatic soprano = [died: 1802]
• FRANZ ANTON SPITZEDER = German operatic tenor and keyboard teacher = [died: 1796]
• VARESCO = Italian priest, musician, poet and librettist = [died: 1805]

Timeline of Events

• 18 February: Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United States – at Charleston, South Carolina.
• 8 April: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.


• Undated:
• MAURICE GREENE is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
• Shortly before his death, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, acknowledges opera singer ANASTASIA ROBINSON as his wife.

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Concerto nach italienischen Gusto
• Overture nach französischer Art
• WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
• 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal
• JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
• Gesù al Calvario (oratorio)

Opera

• EGIDIO ROMUALDO DUNI
• Nerone
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Ariodante
• Alcina
• LEONARDO LEO
• Demofoonte
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet)