Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

8 June: NICOLAS DALAYRAC = French composer of opéra-comique = [died: 1809]
29 September: JOHANN GOTTFRIED SCHICHT = German conductor and composer = [died: 1823]
6 November: JEAN-BAPTISTE BREVAL = French cellist and composer = [died: 1823]
30 November: JOHANN BAPTIST SCHENK = Austrian composer = [died: 1836]
28 December: JOHAN WIKMANSON = Swedish organist and composer = [died: 1800]

Timeline of Events

10 January: King Louis XV of France banishes EUTACHIO BAMBINI and his Italian opera company from Paris.
1 May: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL plays the organ in public for the last time, at the Foundling Hospital, London.
21 November: NICCOLÒ JOMMELLI is appointed music director and Oberkapellmeister to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, at Stuttgart.