Mark's Music Circus
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Music Events of

Births

12 May: JOHANN BAPTIST WANHAL = Czech composer = [died: 1813]
28 August: AGOSTINO ACCORIMBONI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1818]
7 or 8 September: JOSEPH LEGROS = French singer and composer = [died: 1793]
24 October: Duchess ANNA AMALIA of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel = German composer = [died: 1807]
2 November: CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF = Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist = [died: 1799]
5 November: HUGH MONTGOMERIE, 12th Earl of Eglinton = Scottish politician and composer = [died: 1819]

Timeline of Events

27 March: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH performs the Brockes-Passion TWV 5: 1 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
September: LEOPOLD MOZART is expelled from the Benedictine University of Salzburg for poor attendance.
1739–1749: BACH revises his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2e), version never performed during his lifetime (version we know today).
1739–1742: BACH starts revising some of his Weimar period Chorale preludes in a new manuscript (the so-called Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes BWV 651-668). Included at this period are BWV 651–663. The manuscript would also contain his Sonatas BWV 525-530 (1727-1732) and also his Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" BWV 769 (1747).