Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

8 February: ANDRÉ GRÉTRY = Belgian-French composer = [died: 1813]
9 February: HENRI-JOSEPH RIGEL = German-born composer = [died: 1799]
23 May: ANDREA LUCHESI = Italian composer = [died: 1801]
17 July: SUZETTE DEFOYE = French opera singer and ballerina = [died: ????]
27 July: FRANÇOIS-HIPPOLYTE BARTHÉLÉMON = French violinist and composer = [died: 1808]
31 August: JEAN-PAUL-ÉGIDE MARTINI = French composer = [died: 1816]
25 September: WENZEL PICHL = Czech singer, violinist and composer = [died: 1805]

FRANZ XAVER HAMMER = German gambist, cellist and composer = [died: 1817]
ANNA BRITA WENDELIUS = Swedish singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music = [died: 1804]

Timeline of Events

2 October: The Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, Ireland.
18 November: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts having tried out his Messiah privately en route in Chester.
25 November: MARGUERITE-ANTOINETTE COUPERIN, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to BERNARD DE BURY.

JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ.
ANTONIO VIVALDI leaves Venice for Vienna, but dies shortly after his arrival.
19-year-old JIŘÍ ANTONÍN BENDA is given the post of second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of Prussia.
WILLIAM HOGARTH produces an engraving entitled The Enraged Musician.