Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 February:   CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN = Swedish poet and composer = [died: 1795]
• 9 May:   GIOVANNI PAISIELLO = Italian composer = [died: 1816]
• 10 August:   SAMUEL ARNOLD = English composer = [died: 1802]
• 4 November:   AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY = English hymn-writer = [died: 1778]
• December:   ELISABETH OLIN = Swedish operatic soprano = [died: 1828]


• unknown date:
• JOHN ANTES = American-born Moravian composer = [died: 1811]
• Sir PETER BECKFORD = English peer, patron of Muzio Clementi = [died: 1811]
• SAMUEL WEBBE = English composer = [died: 1816]


• probable:
• ANNA BON = Italian singer and composer = [died: ????]

Timeline of Events

• 26 December: The Teatro Regio (Turin) is inaugurated with a performance of FRANCESCO FEO's opera Arsace.


• Undated:
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH begins to lose his sight.
• CARL HEINRICH GRAUN becomes Kapellmeister to Frederick II of Prussia. JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ becomes Frederick's flute teacher.
• FERDINANDO BERTONI arrives in Bologna where he becomes a pupil of GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI.

Classical Music

• THOMAS ARNE
• Alfred (masque), including the song, "Rule Britannia"
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Op. 6, 12 concerti grossi

Opera

• BERNARDO ALIPRANDI
• Semiramide riconosciuta
• VINCENZO CIAMPI
• La Beatrice
• BALDASSARE GALUPPI
• Gustavo primo re di Svezia
• MAURICE GREENE
• The Judgement of Hercules
• LUCA ANTONIO PREDIERI
• Zenobia