Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 8 May:   JEAN-BAPTISTE KRUMPHOLZ = Czech composer = [died: 1790]
• 19 August:   JEAN DAUBERVAL = French dancer = [died: 1806]


• probable date:
• MARTHA RAY = English singer = [died: 1779]

Timeline of Events

• 23 March: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH revives his St Matthew Passion BWV 244 (BC D 3b) with some further revisions of instrumentation and voicing at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig: the work is now scored with a ripienosoprano choir and viola da gamba and harpsichord in the second orchestra (the organ for this orchestra is under repair).
• 13 April: First performance of HANDEL's oratorio Messiah staged at the Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin. MATTHEW DUBOURG leads the orchestra. Handel leaves Ireland on 13 August.
• 7 December: The Berlin Court Opera is inaugurated with a performance of CARL HEINRICH GRAUN's Cleopatra e Cesare.


• Undated:
• JOSEPH BENDA joins the Prussian royal orchestra.

Classical Music

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet, BWV 212 ("Peasant Cantata")
• Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues, BWV 893, book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier)
• The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, earliest known manuscript (P200)
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Messiah
• FRANZ XAVER RICHTER
• Kemptener Te Deum

Opera

• GIUSEPPE CARCANI
• Demetrio
• CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
• Cesare e Cleopatra
• NICCOLÒ JOMMELLI
• Don Chichibio
• GENNARO MANNA
• Tito Manlio