Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 15 March:   SILVESTRO PALMA = Italian opera composer = [died: 1834]
• 2 May:   VICENTE MARTÍN Y SOLER = Spanish composer of opera and ballet = [died: 1806]
• 12 May:   FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER = German composer and music publisher = [died: 1812]
• 15 July:   JACOB FRENCH = American singing master and composer = [died: 1817]
• August:   PETER WINTER = German opera composer = [died: 1825]
• 7 September:   ELIZABETH ANN LINLEY = English singer = [died: 1792]
• 30 November:   FERDINAND RIES = German composer and friend of Beethoven = [died: 1838]
• 9 December:   ÉTIENNE OZI = French bassoonist and composer = [died: 1813]
• 20 December:   JOSEPH SCHUBERT = German violinist and composer = [died: 1837


• date unknown:
• HANS GRAM = Danish organist and composer = [died: 1804]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• Composer CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER loses his sight.
• Publication of GIUSEPPE TARTINI's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
• GIOVANNI PAISIELLO goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under FRANCESCO DURANTE.

Classical Music

• MICHAEL FESTING
• Violin sonatas (published posthumously)
• FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC
• Symphony No. 1
• PIETRO LOCATELLI
• La foresta incantata (ballet)
• PIETRO DOMENICO PARADISI
• 12 sonate de gravicembalo

Opera

• VINCENZO CIAMPI
• Didone
• JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE
• Artemisia