Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 24 January:   MUZIO CLEMENTI = Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer = [died: 1832]
• 12 February:   JOSEF REICHA = Czech conductor and composer = [died: 1795]
• 4 April:   NICCOLÒ ANTONIO ZINGARELLI = Italian composer = [died: 1837]
• 5 April:   SÉBASTIEN ÉRARD = French piano-maker = [died: 1831]
• 2 May:   LUDWIG AUGUST LEBRUN = German composer = [died: 1790]
• 14 May:   JULIANE REICHARDT = German pianist, singer and composer = [died: 1783]
• 31 May:   JOHN MARSH = English composer = [died: 1828]
• 8 September:   CARL STENBORG = Swedish operatic tenor and composer = [died: 1813]
• 30 September:   JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT = German organist and composer = [died: 1817]
• 22 October:   AMBROGIO MINOJA = Italian composer = [died: 1825]
• 25 November:   JOHANN FRIEDRICH REICHARDT = German composer and music critic = [died: 1814]


• date unknown:
• ABRAHAM WOOD = American military drummer and composer = [died: 1804]

Timeline of Events

• 13 June: Composer MARIA TERESA AGNESI marries PIER ANTONIO PINOTTINI.
• 25 September: ANTONIO SOLER becomes organist at El Escorial.
• 3 November: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.


• Undated:
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
• Artist THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer JOSEPH GIBBS
• NICOLA PORPORA leaves Dresden for Vienna.
• JOHANN WILHELM HERTEL replaces his father, JOHANN CHRISTIAN HERTEL, as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
• ANTON CAJETAN ADLGASSER marries MARIA JOSEPHA, daughter of JOHANN ERNST EBERLIN.
• FERDINANDO BERTONI becomes first organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Publications

• CHARLES AVISON = Essay on Musical Expression
• JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ = Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen, a treatise on the flute

Classical Music

• HANDEL
• Jephtha (oratorio)

Opera

• JEAN-BAPTISTE CARDONNE
• Amaryllis
• JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
• Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons)