Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 January:   FERDINAND KAUER = Austrian pianist and composer = [died: 1831]
• 4 February:   BLAS DE LASERNA = Spanish composer = [died: 1816]
• 9 February:   ANTOINE BULLANT = Czech bassoonist and composer = [died: 1821]
• 5 March:   JAN KRTITEL KUCHAR = Czech organist, mandolinist, harpsichordist, music composer, operatic conductor, and teacher = [died: 1829]
• 29 March:   SUPPLY BELCHER = American singer, composer and compiler of tune books = [died: 1836]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• 1751 is the year commonly given as the beginning of the classical era
• The "War of the Buffoons" (LA QUERELLE DES BOUFFONS), concerning the relative merits of French and Italian opera, divides Paris.
• FRANCESCO GEMINIANI publishes "The Art of Playing on the Violin" in London.

Classical Music

• ANTOINE DAUVERGNE
• Concerts de Simphonies
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• Kunst der Fuge with appendix of Chorale prelude BWV 668a (posthumously)
• JOHN FRANCIS WADE
• O Come All Ye Faithful

Opera

• JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
• Ciro Riconosciuto
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Der Krumme Teufel (singspiel)
• NICCOLÒ JOMMELLI
• La villana nobile; Ifigenia in Aulide
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Acante et Céphise
• GIUSEPPE SARTI
• Pompeo in Armenia