Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 25 January:   JOHANN GOTTFRIED VIERLING = German organist and composer = [died: 1813]
• 23 March:   JOHANNES MATTHIAS SPERGER = Austrian contrabassist and composer = [died: 1812]
• 18 August:   ANTONIO SALIERI = Italian composer = [died: 1825]
• November:   ANTON STAMITZ = German of partial Czech ancestry composer = [died: c.1805]


• date unknown:
• MIKHAIL MATINSKY = Russian librettist and opera composer = [died: c. 1820]


• probable:
• ANTONIO ROSETTI = Czech composer = [died: 1792]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
• FARINELLI is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
• Ten-year-old CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra.
• BACH dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and 667 to pupil and son-in-law JOHANN CHRISTOPH ALTNIKOL. These are then added to the manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (BWV 668 is added posthumously).

Classical Music

• LEOPOLD MOZART
• Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass "Frog"

Opera

• JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA
• Il filosofo convinto in amore
• WILLIAM BOYCE
• The Roman Father