Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 19 January:   GIUSEPPE MILLICO = Italian castrato singer, composer and music teacher = [died: 1802]
• 9 March:   JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK = Czech composer = [died: 1781]
• 14 September:   MICHAEL HAYDN = Austrian composer = [died: 1806]


• date unknown:
• WILLIAM PAXTON = English cellist and composer = [died: 1781]
• FREDERICK CHARLES REINHOLD = English operatic bass = [died: 1815]
• MARGUERITE MOREL = French Ballerina, actress and singer = [died: 1804]

Timeline of Events

• April: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL suffers a probable stroke, resulting in the temporary paralysis of his right arm.
• 4 November: Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated with a performance of DOMENICO SARRO's Achille in Sciro.


• Undated:
• WILLIAM BOYCE conducts the Three Choirs Festival

Opera

• DOMENICO ALBERTI
• Endimione
• GIOVANNI BONONCINI
• Zenobia
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Berenice & Arminio
• JOHN FREDERICK LAMPE and HENRY CAREY
• The Dragon of Wantley
• LEONARDO LEO
• Parnace
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Castor et Pollux