Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
Births
16 January:
MARIA THERESIA AHLEFELDT
= German composer = [died: 1810]
5 February:
CAROLINE MÜLLER
= Danish and later naturalized Swedish operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer = [died: 1826]
2 March:
ANTOINE-FRÉDÉRIC GRESNICK
= Belgian opera composer = [died: 1799]
12 May:
GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
= Italian violinist and composer = [died: 1824]
18 June:
LOUISE-ROSALIE LEFEBVRE
= French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer = [died: 1821]
10 November:
FRANZ ANTON RIES
= German violinist = [died: 1846]
30 November:
AGNIESZKA TRUSKOLASKA
= Polish opera singer = [died: 1831]
date unknown:
JOHN CHRISTOPHER MOLLER
= early American composer = [died: 1803]
Timeline of Events
Undated:
In Britain,
WILLIAM BOYCE
is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements,
THOMAS ARNE
and his wife, the soprano
CECILIA YOUNG
, agree to separate.
FERDINANDO BERTONI
becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.
Classical Music
CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
Der Tod Jesu
LEOPOLD MOZART
Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride"
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6
Opera
JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA
Il tempio d'amore
PIERRE MONTAN BERTON
Deucalion et Pyrrha
EGIDIO DUNI
L'Olimpiade
CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
Montezuma
(libretto by
King Frederick the Great
)
Please address any comments concerning this page to
The Music Maestro
Mark Chard
BSc
Page created: 3rd January 2015
Last edited: 27th May 2023
