Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 3 May:   FRIEDRICH WILHELM WEIS = German composer = [died: 1826]
• 4 May:   MARIANNA MARTINES = Austrian singer, pianist and composer = [died: 1812]


• date unknown:
• GAETANO BRUNETTI = Italian composer = [died: 1798]
• CHARLES LE PICQ = French dancer and choreographer = [died: 1806]

Timeline of Events

• 27 March: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH revives his St Mark Passion with some textual changes and two new arias inserted at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.


• Undated:
• Castrato GIOVANNI CARESTINI goes to work for Maria Theresa of Austria.

Published Popular Songs (Nursery Rhymes)

• "London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or simply "London Bridge") = (Traditional) = [published in England c. 1744]

Classical Music

• THOMAS ARNE
• The Death of Abel (oratorio)
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Das wohltemperierte Klavier, part 2
• JOHAN HELMICH ROMAN
• Drottningholm Music (Music for a Royal Wedding)
• FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI
• L'errore di Salomone (oratorio)

Opera

• DANIELE DAL BARBA
• Il Tigrane
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
• Ipermestra
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Semele
• JOHN FREDERICK LAMPE
• The Kiss Accepted and Returned