Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• February:   JOHANN PETER SALOMON = German violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1815]
• 7 May:   CARL STAMITZ = German composer = [died: 1801]
• 19 August:   JOHANN IGNAZ LUDWIG FISCHER = German operatic bass = [died: 1825]
• 9 December:   MADDALENA LAURA SIRMEN = Italian violinist, singer and composer = [died: 1818]
• 25 December:   CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES = French composer known as the "Black Mozart" = [died: 1799]


• date unknown:
• SOPHIA BADDELEY = English actress and singer = [died: 1786]

Timeline of Events

• 16 April: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.


• Undated:
• THOMAS ARNE enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on JOHN HEBDEN as principal cellist and bassoonist.
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA PESCETTI returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
• After 1745: BACH performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).

Publications

• LOUIS-ANTOINE DORNEL = Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons

Classical Music

• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Hercules (oratorio)

Opera

• FERDINANDO BERTONI
• La vedova accorta
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Comus (based on the masque by JOHN MILTON)
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Platée
• JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
• Les Muses galantes
• GEORG CHRISTOPH WAGENSEIL
• Ariodante