Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• February:   HEDVIG WIGERT = Swedish opera singer = [died: 1780]
• 5 February:   CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB NEEFE = German conductor, teacher (Ludwig van Beethoven was a student), and composer = [died: 1798]
• 5 March:   WILLIAM SHIELD = English violinist and composer = [died: 1829]
• 20 April:   GEORG MICHAEL TELEMANN = German composer = [died: 1831]
• 11 August:   JOSEPH SCHUSTER = German composer = [died: 1812]
• 31 August:   JEAN-ÉTIENNE DESPRÉAUX = French singer, dancer and composer = [died: 1820]
• 30 November:   JOACHIM ALBERTINI = Italian-born Polish composer = [died: 1812]

Timeline of Events

• 12 April: Possible premiere of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Thomas 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.
• August 1748 to October 1749: Repeat (possible concert hall) performance by BACH of HANDEL's Brockes Passion HWV 48 in a version by BACH.
• 1748–1749: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH composes his Mass in B minor BWV 232 (BC E 1).


• Undated:
• Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England, the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe, is opened.
• NICOLA PORPORA becomes Kapellmeister at Dresden.

Classical Music

• GREGOR WERNER
• Neuer und sehr curios- Musicalischer Instrumental-Calendar

Opera

• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Zaïs, premiered on February 29
• Pygmalion, premiered on August 27
• Les surprises de l'Amour, premiered on November 27