Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 27 January:   WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART = Austrian composer = [died: 1791]
• 7 May:   THOMAS LINLEY the younger = English composer and violinist = [died: 1778]
• 20 June:   JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS = German-Swedish composer = [died: 1792]
• 27 September:   CHRISTOFFER CHRISTIAN KARSTEN = Swedish opera singer = [died: 1827]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
• JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH settles in Italy.

Classical Music

• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1

Opera

• PASQUALE CAFARO
• La disfatta di Dario
• BALDASSARE GALUPPI
• Idomeneo
• PIERRE VAN MALDERE
• Le Déguisement pastorale
• JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
• Zoroastre
• ANTONIO SACCHINI
• Fra Donato