Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 7 February:   BENEDIKT SCHACK = Czech/Austrian operatic tenor and composer = [died: 1826]
• 25 August:   FRANZ TEYBER Austrian composer = [died: 1810]
• 25 September:
• MARIA ANNA THEKLA MOZART = German cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart = [died: 1841]
• JOSEPHA BARBARA AUERNHAMMER = Austrian pianist and composer = [died: 1820]
• 7 October:   PAUL ANTON WINEBERGER = German cellist and composer = [died: 1821]
• 11 December:   CARL FRIEDRICH ZELTER = German composer = [died: 1832]
• 31 December:   SOPHIE HAGMAN, Swedish ballerina = [died: 1826]


• date unknown:
• GLAFIRA ALYMOVA = Russian harpist = [died: 1826]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.
• WILLIAM BOYCE becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA LOCATELLI takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers GIUSEPPE and VINCENZO MANFREDINI.

Classical Music

• MICHAEL HAYDN
• Symphony No. 1 in C major

Opera

• FLORIAN LEOPOLD GASSMANN
• Issipile
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
• L'île de Merlin