Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 29 March:   JOHANN WILHELM HÄSSLER = German organist and composer = [died: 1822]
• 31 March:   JOHANN ABRAHAM PETER SCHULZ = German musician and composer = [died: 1800]
• 23 July:   FAUSTINO ARÉVALO = Spanish hymnographer = [died: 1824]
• 29 November:   GIOVANNI MANE GIORNOVICHI = Italian-Croatian violinist and composer = [died: 1804]


• date unknown:
• NARCISO CASANOVAS = Spanish monk and composer = [died: 1799]
• MICHAEL EHREGOTT GROSE = Danish organist and composer = [died: 1795]
• FRANÇOIS TOURTE = French maker of violin bows = [died: 1835]

Timeline of Events

• 30 April: Possible premiere of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.


• Undated:
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Berlin; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.
• LUIGI BOCCHERINI goes to Rome to study the cello.

Classical Music

• MARIA TERESA AGNESI
• Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata)
• ANTOINE FORQUERAY
• Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin (posthumously published)
• GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
• Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• La Dauphine (harpsichord piece)

Opera

• NICOLA CALANDRA
• Lo Barone Landolfo
• GERONIMO CORDELLA
• La Faustina