Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 25 January:   ROBERT BURNS = Scottish poet and lyricist = [died: 1796]
• 31 January:   FRANÇOIS DEVIENNE = French composer = [died: 1803]
• 18 April:   JACQUES WIDERKEHR = French-Alsatian composer and cellist = [died: 1823]
• 19 July:   MARIANNA AUENBRUGGER = Austrian pianist and composer = [died: 1782]
• 27 November:   FRANZ KROMMER = Czech composer = [died: 1831]


• unknown date:
• WILLIAM MATTHEWS of Nottingham = English composer = [died: 1830]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA succeeds CARL HEINRICH GRAUN as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.
• Castrato GASPARE PACCHIEROTTI makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role.
• TOMMASO TRAETTA becomes court composer at Parma.

Classical Music

• WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
• Pieces for Musical Clock
• FRANÇOIS JOSEPH GOSSEC
• Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.4
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Symphony no 1 in D Major

Opera

• JOHANN ERNST EBERLIN
• Demofoonte (lost)
• FLORIAN LEOPOLD GASSMANN
• Gli uccellatori
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
• L'Arbre enchantée; Cythère Assiégée
• TOMMASO TRAETTA
• Ippolito ed Aricia