Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 19 February:   LUIGI BOCCHERINI = Italian composer and cellist = [died: 1805]
• 21 May:   FRANÇOIS DUVAL = French dancer = [died: ????]
• 6 July:   VALENTIN ADAMBERGER = German operatic tenor = [died: 1804]
• 30 September:   CHRISTIAN EHREGOTT WEINLIG = German cantor and composer = [died: 1813]
• 5 October:   GIUSEPPE GAZZANIGA = Italian composer = [died: 1818]
• 10 October:   MARIE-MADELEINE GUIMARD = French ballerina = [died: 1816]

Timeline of Events

• 23 March: English premiere of HANDEL's Messiah in London
• 1743–1746: BACH revises his St Matthew Passion (two organs used again, but Viola da gamba still retained; Recitatives revised so that now only the vox Christi recitatives have sustained Continuo parts). No evidence of version being performed (version we know today).


• Undated:
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH examines the organ at the Johanniskirche, Leipzig.

Classical Music

• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Samson (oratorio)
• Semele (oratorio)

Opera

• BERNARD DE BURY
• Les Caractères de la folie
• BALDASSARE GALUPPI
• Enrico